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ana to oblige the inhabitants to establish themselves more to the north, 

 in the new town of Santiago de Guatemala. On this, as on the removal of the 

 site of Riobamba and other towns near the volcanoes of the Andes, there was 

 much dogmatic and passionate debate respecting the choice of a locality, 

 which might be supposed from previous experience to be little exposed to the 

 effects of neighbouring volcanoes, streams of lava, eruptions of scorise, and earth- 

 quakes ! The Volcan de Fuego had a great eruption in 1852, when it sent 

 forth a stream of lava towards the shore of the Pacific. Captain Basil Hall mea- 

 sured, under sail, the two volcanoes of Old Guatemala, and found for the Volcan 

 de Fuego 14,665, and for the Volcan de Agua 14,903 feet. Poggendorff ex- 

 amined the data on which these results were based, and inferred a less height, 

 i. e. about 13,110 feet for the mean of the two. 



Volcan de Quesaltenango* (N. lat. 15 10'), burning since 1821, and giving 

 out smoke : near the town of the same name: the three conical mounts which 

 bound the Alpine lake, Atitlan, on the south, are also supposed to be burning. 

 The volcano of Tajamulco named by Juarros cannot well be identical with the 

 volcano of Quesaltenango, as the latter is forty geographical miles to the N.W. 

 of the village of Tajamulco, south of Tejutla. 



What are the two volcanoes of Sacatepeques and Sapotitlan named by Funel ; 

 or Brue"s Volcan de Amilpas ? 



The great Volcano of Soconusco : near the boundary of Chiapa, twenty-eight 

 miles south of Ciudad Eeal, in N. lat. 16 2'. 



At the conclusion of this long note I must again recall that the barometric de- 

 terminations of height are partly given by Espinache, and partly taken from 

 the writings and maps of Daily, Squier, and Molina, and that they are expressed 

 in Paris feet (which in the translation have been converted into English feet). 



("^ p. 265. Of the volcanoes cited by me as active either formerly or at 

 present, the following eighteen, almost half the number, may be regarded as still 

 more or less so : Irasu and Turrialva, near Cartago ; el Rincon de la Vieja ; 

 Votos (?) and Orosi ; the island-volcano Ometepec, Nindiri, Momotombo, el 

 Nuevo (at the foot of the trachytic mountain las Pilas), Telica, el Viejo, Conse- 

 guina, San Miguel Bosotlan, San Vicente, Izalco, Pacaya, Volcan de Fuego (de 

 Guatemala), and Quesaltenango. The most recent eruptions were those of el 

 Nuevo, 18th April 1850; San Miguel Bosotlan, 1848; Conseguina and Sail 

 Vicente, 1835 ; Izalco, 1825 ; Volcan de Fuego, 1799 and 1852 ; and Pacaya 

 1775. 



( 392 ) p. 266. Compare Squier, Nicaragua, vol. ii. p. 103, with p. 106 and 

 111, as well as his earlier short Notice on the Volcanoes of Central America, 

 1850, p. 7; and L. de Buch, lies Canaries, p. 506; where mention is made of the 



