THE GEEAT ERUPTION OF SAKUEA-JIMA IN 1914. 



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.Tax. Uth, 



Noon 



Thus, the vents were successively opened below the 

 older ones along the comparatively shallow satellitic in- 

 jection-chamber. Fear was again caused that other vents would 

 open later below the bottom of the sea and also of the city. 

 Throughout the whole day the cannonadings followed by air- 

 concussions were constantly repeated simultaneously with the 

 clinking of flowing lava. No information was at hand from the 

 eastern side. 



Jan. 15th »pj^g moming was calm, weather fine. Now and then 

 a detonation followed by a sound Hke distant thunder recurred 

 throughout the whole day. Each time this happened, brown dust- 



Pig. 20. — Lava-stream reaching the shore, on January 15th, as seen 

 from the qnay at Kagoshima. H-Hakamng3shi hill. 



