PLATE VIII. 



Fig. 1. — The western lava-flow drowned the islet of Ivarasu-jima on January 

 20th, 1914. Compare Fig. ;3, PI. Y. and Figs. 1 and 3, PI. YI. 

 Photo bv the writer. See j^ages 85, 86. 



Fig. 2.* — AVestern view of the strait of Seto prior to the eruption, now 

 entirely blocked up by the Xabe-yama lava-flows, so that Sakura-jima 

 became a peninsula of Prov. Osumi. In the middle is seen the round- 

 topjaed Akashi-(Tongén (103 on.), and on the left is the hot spring of 

 Ari-mura, noA\- lava-drowned. Photo bought in Kagoshima. Sec pages 

 88, 105, 155. 



Fig. 3.* — ïlie same view of the now defunct strait of Seto, as seen from 

 Seto village in Sakura-jima toward the Osumi shore. Photo bought in 

 Kagoshima. See pages 88, 105, 155. 



* Cf. Plate IX. Figs. 2 and 3. 



