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ART. 3.— B. KOTO 



Fig. 15.-Sakura-jima at the first phase of eruption, as seen from 

 Kiigoshima. (rhoto by Yamashita.) 



Steadily growing in strength, and the ventholes were increasing in 

 number, to 4 or 5 one after another in a series toward the shore 

 at Yokoyaraa. This indicated the widening and lengthening of 



