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descends in a cone-like form, and shows around its circumference many 

 tissures and rifts. From the center and walls arose a dense sulphurous 

 vapor. The gases from the new theater of eruption had a smell Ml^e 

 that of burning- stone-coal. 



The descent was very toilsome on account of the rolling stones. At 

 u.oO p. m. the horses were reached, and at 0,30 the luicienda of San 

 ]\Iarcos, where many were waiting to learn the result of the expedition. 

 The report of Orosco was, that the district was threatened Avith n(> dan- 

 ger, as no lava was issuing, and the tissures being open giive no reason 

 to fear any explosion from the tension of conlined vapors. Later ex- 

 plorers of th(^ volcano found a iissure from the new upheaval to the nj)- 

 ])er peak, one to three feet wide and about three feet in de]>th, but 

 neither heat nor vapor issuing- from it. The latest reports inform us 

 that the same phenomena in general continue to present themselves, but 

 that such volumes of fetid gases issue from the Iissure, that the inhabi- 

 tants of the district were forced to leave their abodes. Cows and 

 sheep were killed thereby, so that it was found necessary to drive away 

 the herds from the neigliborhood of the volcano. 



