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BOGOSLOF VOLCANOES. 



Laij^v, rocks were tshot high in the air, and falling Liiok into the water 

 sent forth steam and a hissing sound. After nigntfall, the vessel 

 being then about 25 miles to windward, fire was obser\ ed on the island. 

 A month later (October 27) Captain Hague of the schooner Dora 

 approached within a mile, passing through a streak of red water and 

 then into a streak of gi'een water. He is quoted as sa^'ing that black 

 smoke, like that from burning tar, was issuing from the volcano; that 

 it threw out flame, smoke, and red-hot rocks, and that among the sea 

 lions observed near by were a number which had been scalded so that 

 the hair had come off. He thinks many were killed. 





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Fig. 6.— New Bogoslof in September and October 1883. Drawn by Prof. George Davidson from 

 descriptions by Captains Anderson and Hague. 



A short time afterwards both captains returned to San Francisco, 

 where they communicated their observations to Prof, George David- 

 son, of the U. S. Coast Survey, who published a brief account in 

 Science. They approached the island from opposite directions, passed 

 close to it, and saw it from all sides. Thej^ agreed that the new i.-'and 

 was larger than the old, from which it was distant about half a mile; 

 that it rose precipitously from the sea with very steep sides; that 

 great steam jets poured out around the base; that the summit wi»s 

 hidden by fog or clouds of steam, and that its height was somewhere 

 between 800 and 1,200 feet. From their descriptions Professor David- 

 son made the accompanying drawing (fig. 6). 



