NOTES. 



cano and Massaya; pilots designate sometimes one and sometimes the other of 

 these mountains by the indefinite name of the Volcano of Granada. 



Massaya (Masaya) has been described more fully in the text, p. 253 255. 

 It was formerly as active as Stromboli, but has been extinct since the great erup- 

 tion of lava in 1670. According to the interesting account by Dr. Scherzer 

 (Sitzungsberichte der philos. hist. Classe der Akad. der Wiss. zu Wien, Bd. xx. 

 S. 58), in April 1853, clouds of steam were again emitted from a newly opened 

 crater. The volcano of Massaya is situated between the two lakes of Nicaragua 

 and Managua, to the west of the town of Granada. Massaya is not synonymous 

 with Nindiri; but Massaya and Nindiri * form a " twin volcano," with two summits 

 and two different craters, both of which have given out lava. The stream of lava 

 from Nindiri in 1775 reached the lake of Managua. The equal height of the 

 two volcanoes so near to each other is stated to be only 2450 feet. 



Volcan de Momotombo* (7030 feet), active ; subterranean thunder often 

 heard, without smoke being seen ; in N. lat. 12 28', at the north end of the 

 Laguna de Managua, over against the small island of Momotombito, rich in 

 sculptured remains. (See the drawing of Momotombo in Squier, vol. i. p. 233 

 and 302 312.) The Laguna de Managua is between 27 and 28 feet higher 

 than the Laguna de Nicaragua, which is more than twice as large, and has no 

 island-volcano. 



From hence to the Gulf of Fonseca or Conchagua, at a distance of twenty 

 miles from the coast line of the Pacific, there extends a line running S.E. N.W. 

 of six volcanoes, near to each other, and bearing the common name of Los Mari- 

 bios. (Squier, vol. i. p. 419, vol. ii. p. 123.) 



El Nuevo*, wrongly called Volcan de las Pilas, because the eruption of the 

 12th of April 1850, took place at the foot of that mountain; a considerable 

 eruption of lava almost in the plain itself ! (Squier, vol. ii. p. 105110.) 



Volcan de Telica*, visited in the 16th century (about 1529) by Oviedo, 

 during its activity ; situated to the east of Chinendaga, near Leon de Nicaragua, 

 therefore rather out of the direction before assigned. This important volcano, 

 which emits sulphureous vapours from a crater 300 feet deep, was ascended a 

 few years ago by my friend, Professor Julius Probel : he found the lava 

 composed of glassy felspar and augite. (Squier, vol. ii. p. 115 117.) On 

 the summit, 3517 feet high, there is a crater in which the vapours deposit 

 great masses of sulphur. At the foot of the volcano there is a mud-spring 

 (Salse ?). 



El Viejo*, the northernmost of the crowded range of six volcanoes. It was 

 ascended and measured by Captain Sir Edward Belcher in 1 838. The result of 

 his measurement was 5560 feet : a later measurement by Squier gave 6000 feet. 



