4 ASCOLI, GuateDialan EartJiquakcs ami Eruption of igo2. 



1X4 mile, and has a present depth of some 1,500 feet. 

 The whole of the side of the mountain above this and 

 up to the summit was completely blown out during the 

 first three days of the eruption, leaving an almost vertical 

 clifif, 7,000 feet in height, exposed. Though still in a 

 state of considerable activity, no further damage was 

 caused. The seat of activity at present is a small hot 

 lake in the S.E. corner of the crater. From the side of 

 this a great steam jet, of considerable violence, issues, 

 alternating horizontally and vertically. 



I have frequently visited the scene of the eruption 

 both before and after the events described above. I have 

 ascended the Cerro Quemado many times, and the Santa 

 Maria once, before the earthquake of April i8th. Since 

 the eruption 1 have also visited both. At the end of 1902, 

 and the beginning of 1903, I made three attempts to reach 

 the new crater, none of which, however, was entirely 

 successful, owing chiefly to the state of the new ash. 

 But in January, 1907, accompanied by Dr. Tempest 

 Anderson, of York, I reached the crater, and some 

 observations of considerable interest were made. 



