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By the nearness of our approach, the examination of these cones, 
we were greatly excited, althoug Sadzing from the tremendous roar 
within, the irresistible force and deafening hiss, with which the steam 
rushed from every opening, and from the flames which flashed up, 
followed by lava white with an intensity of heat, the action beneath 
must have been intense—still the incrustation of scoria immediately 
around, seemed firm, and was less hot, than in many other places: 
admitting, not only of our coming close to the sides of the cone, but 
also of slenabionit, some feet up them, till we could run our canes 
into the orifices at the top, and withdraw, with their burning ends, 
red: hot lava, on which we readily made impressions, with pencil 
cases and naval buttons. 
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‘Even the slightest touch, however, with our sticks against the 
molten lava, produced an increased rush and roar from below, with 
an angry spitting of the fiery matter high in the air around-us; and, 
more than once, we hastily retreated, anticipating a mons get: 
eruption. 
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nd calls for admiration, on every side, that day after day, it 
place of a single le mo. ning, would be insufficient to exhaust the points 
of interest in this grand object: and we regretted the necessity, that 
hunger, thirst and fatigue imposed upon us, of = leave of the’ 
depths to which we had descended. 
‘ “The ascent to our cabin, by the same path we came, was toilsome 
in the extreme; and but for the refreshment derived from the whor 
tleberries—after having surmounted the first clifis-we should bate 
been almost entirely ateercene 
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 * The first evening of our arrival from the bide while standing on the edge of the 
‘ater, a sudden blast of wind brushed from my ee a Leghorn hat, which I had 
worn to shield my face, by its broad rim, from the st in an nt swept it 
out of sight over ‘hs precipice, as was then tcecen Nodal all recovery: But, 
while at dinner, after having reached the hut, we were alarmed by the ramning of 
one of the natives from the erater, calling, in great agitation, for a rope, which - 
been used in lashing our provision chest; and om hastily — what we 
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blown, a hundred fect or more below the 
gone over the brink, and by a niost frightful effort, had sueceeded in gal aining por 
session of it. After making his way back, however, till within twenty or thirty feet 
of the top, he found it a! swag to ascend sn ban ; and was then standing on @ SI" 
gle projecting stone, in danger every mo of losing his hold, and of being aa? 
cipitated to instant de wiraction, pi a wall. fact cliff of at least nine hund red feet: 
_ novelty—so much = fearful sublimity attracts the ate 
