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ART. 3. — B. KOTO 



Eeuptiok- 



PEKIOD V. 



(1779-179!)) 



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B) The Eruption-period V. — a) The Eruption of the An-ei 

 Eea. The ac- 

 tivity of the 



An-ei ei'iV^ was the most 



terrible one ever recorded 



of Sakura-jima, especially 



from 1779'^ to 1781, 



though it was persistently 



turbulent for twenty years, 



gradually declining in in- 

 tensity and finally coming 



to rest in 1799, having 



t^xhausted its volcanic 



energy. 



1779 From Novem- 



\)QV 7th, 1779, Kagoshima 



und the environs in a 



radius of about 40 Im. 



were violently shaken, and 



people became very much 



excited with fear. From 



10 \ W to noon of fho ^iQ- iO •"'■ — Southern view of the first iihase of eriiption 



fit noon, on the 8th November, 1779, as seen from 



next day (8th) the water Tanimi, Prov. Ôsuml, the active center being at this 



moment the south crater-cone. Copy of a sketch by 



m all the wells of Sakura- s. Mchi. 





k< U.rt-.( 



1) There are several works, both Japanese and foreign (Milne, Friedlaender etc.) on the 

 erui>tion of An-ei, all telling the same story. The present version is chieily leased on fhiri-sanko, 

 H ' Compentlium of the Geography of Hyûga. Ôsumi, and Satsuma.' 1898, Kagoshima. 



A ftül list of the literature is given in the ' Explanatory Text to the Sheet Kagoshima,' by 

 the late K. Nakashima, and in the late Milne's ' The Volcanoes of Japan,' Trans. Seis. Soc, IX. 

 1880. 



2) From 1772 to 18S0 the Kirishima group remained remarkably tran(jnil. 



