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suffocating fumes of burning brimstone, worse, if possible, 

 than the Metropolitan Railway at Gower Street. Here, 

 from a rent in the ground, steam and gas were issuing 

 under high pressure with a loud, hissing sound, and 

 sulphur was being deposited in vivid yellow and orange 

 incrustations, which looked doubly bright seen against 

 the intense blueness of the sky. We managed to secure 



FIG. 14. The same Eruption as in Fig. 13 a few 

 seconds later. (From a photograph.) 



some specimens. It was warm work the steam is hot 

 enough to melt zinc but we did it. 



Our last day was spent in walking round Vulcano. In 

 the evening we reached the Marino built by Mr. Narlian. 

 A felucca came to take us to the San Giovanni. The 

 rhythmic movements of the rowers, the plash of the 

 waves, attuned themselves to our thoughts. We looked 

 down into the deep, solid majolica blue of the Medi- 



