406 REACTION OF THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH 



Number of Volcanoes on the Globe. 



1. Europe . * 



2. Islands of the Atlantic 



3. Africa . V ';'.; 



4. Continent of Asia 



0. Western portion and Cen- 



tral Asia 

 /8. Peninsula of Kamtschatka 



5. East- Asiatic Islands . . "'" 



6. South-Asiatic Islands . "*> 



7. Indian Ocean . ; . . 



8. Pacific Ocean . .,.. ^ . 



9. Continent of America 



a. South America. 



a. Chili. . ; 4) 



/8. Peru and Bolivia 

 y. Quito and New Gra- 

 nada . . 



1. Central America . ;- '.): 



c. Mexico, south of the Rio 



Gila . -V 



d. North - west America, 



north of the Gila 



10. Antilles ( 555 ) (or West-India 

 Islands) . . 



Pages. 



326328 

 328332 

 332334 



7 (4) 



14 (8) 



3 (1) 



Totals - 407 (225) 



The result of this laborious investigation, which has 

 occupied me long because I have everywhere gone back 

 to the original authorities (the geological and geogra- 

 phical accounts of travellers), is that out of 407 vol- 

 canoes which have been cited, 225 have been in activity 

 within very modern times. Earlier statements ( 55G ) 

 have given the number of still active volcanoes thirty 



