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BOGOSLOF VOLCANOES. 



Large rocks were shot high in the air, and falling back into the water 

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

 being then about 25 miles to windward, fire was observed 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 green water. He is quoted as saying 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. 



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. The} r agreed that the new island 

 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 was 

 bidden 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 (tig. 6). 



