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This volcano, which was very active in Dampier's time, is still burning. The 

 eruptions of burning scoriae are often seen in the town of Leon. 



Quanacaure : rather to the north, out of the line from El Nuevo to El Viejo, 

 only twelve miles from the coast of the Gulf of Fonseca. 



Consequina*, on the promontory which runs out at the southern end of the 

 Gulf of Fonseca (N. lat. 12 50') ; celebrated for the dreadful eruption, preceded 

 by earthquake, 23rd January 1835. The great darkness produced by the fall 

 of ashes, similar to that which has sometimes been occasioned by Pichincha, 

 lasted forty-three hours. At a few feet distant torches could not be perceived, 

 respiration was impeded, and subterranean noises, resembling the discharge of 

 heavy ordnance, were heard not only in Balize, on the peninsula of Yucatan, but 

 also in Jamaica and on the high plain of Bogota, the latter being more than 

 8500 feet above the sea, and almost 560 geographical miles distant. (Juan 

 Galindo in Silliman's American Journal, vol. xxvjii.. 1835, p. 332336; Acosta, 

 Viajes a los Andes, 1849, p. 56; and Squier, vol. ii. p. 110 113; drawings, p. 

 163 and 165.) Darwin (Journal of [Researches during the Voyage of the Beagle, 

 chap. 14, p. 291) calls attention to a remarkable coincidence of phsenomena : 

 after a long slumber the volcanoes of Conseguina in Central America, of Acon- 

 cagua and Corcovado (S. lat. 32f and 43^) in Chili* broke out on the same 

 day. Was this an accident ? 



Volcano of Conchagua, or of Amalapa, at the northern entrance of the Gulf of 

 Fonseca, opposite to the volcano of Conseguina, at the fine Puerto de la Union, 

 the port of the neighbouring town of San Miguel. 



From the State of Costa Rica to the volcano of Conchagua, the range of 

 twenty volcanoes follows a S.E. N.W. direction, but at Conchagua, where it 

 enters the State of San Salvador, which, in a length of 160 geographical miles, 

 has five volcanoes, all still more or less active, the line of volcanoes, like the coast 

 line towards the Pacific, turns more E.S.E. W.N.W. or even almost E. W. ; 

 while on the eastern (Atlantic) side, about Cape Gracias d Dios, the coast-line 

 swells out suddenly in the territories of Honduras and Los Mosquitos. (Com- 

 pare text, p. 263.) It is not, as there remarked, until the lofty volcanoes 

 of Old Guatemala are passed, about the Laguna of Atitlan, that the former 

 general direction, N. 45 W., returns, and continues to Cbiapa and the isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec, when the abnormal E. W. direction reappears in non-volcanic 

 chains. The remaining four volcanoes in the State of San Salvador, besides 

 Conchagua, are : 



The volcano of San Miguel Bosotlan* (N. lat. 13 35'), near the town of that 

 name ; the finest and most regular trachytic cone, next to the island-volcano 

 Ometepec, in the lake of Nicaragua. (Squier, vol. ii. p. 196.) The volcanic 



