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bled on the city -side while one or two small explosions occurred 

 every hour. Ash fell in dusky weather on tlie city from G.30 a.m., 

 due to an explosion oa the east (where ?). 

 Clox-d- On the morning of the 8th, a cloud-]3Urst swept 



BtTßST AND ^ 



Mud-flow f^^Q coast of Osumi, causiug a pumice and ash flood in 

 Ushiné village submerging 400 houses. It is to be emphasized 

 that the weather had been fine since January 10th, liitherto crea- 

 ting no mud ßows (see Summary) in the asli-covered area during 

 this rather long interval, excepting little local rainfalls. It is also 

 to be observed that these precipitations, slight or strong, always 

 happened after an ash day, but not simultaneously with the ascent 

 of steam columns in the main vents. 



Feb. The morning was fresh. The western side was 



calm and only smoked once at 3.25 p.m. The eastern 

 was strongly smoking at 1 p.m. On the lOtli, nothing was record- 

 ed. On the 1 1th, no smoke w^as witnessed on the west ; the lava 

 front was still emitting saline fumes in the sea. The east was 

 yet strongly smoking and roared from 6.42 p.m., wliile the west 

 Avas exhaling only faint smoke on the 12th. 

 Feb. The east roared at 7.20 a.m., 4 p.m., and 6.41 p.m., the 



13th-14th , , 



last one was rather strong and rattled the city-wmdows. 

 The icest detonated strongly with smoke at 6.41 a.m., became 

 bright at 11p.m., and roared at 11.44 p.m. Earthquakes w^ere fre- 

 quently felt at 3.17 a.m., 8.52 a.m. (scale 1), 3.21 p.m., 3.34 p.m. 

 (scales 2-3), and 6.30 p.m. (scale 1). On the whole the ground 

 was by no means tranquil. 

 iwô-jiMA It was on this day, the 13th of February, that 



Eaeth- 



tiTJAKEs the active volcanic island of Iwô-jima (pp. 5, 21), the 



" Sulphur Island " (Fig. 1 i. Fig. 2), lying 100 hn. southwards off 

 the southern shore of the province of Satsuma, was strongly 



