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SUBMARINE VOLCANO. 



thery smoke, in the most fanciful manner imaginable) 

 intermixed with the finest particles of falling ashes, 

 which at one time assumed the appearance of innu- 

 merable plumes of black and white ostrich feathers 

 surmounting each other ; at another, that of the light 

 wavy branches of a weeping willow. 



" During these bursts, the most vivid flashes of 

 lightning continually issued from the densest part of 

 the volcano ; and the cloud of smoke now ascending 

 to an altitude much above the highest point to which 

 the ashes were projected, rolled off in large masses of 

 fleecy clouds, gradually expanding themselves before 

 the wind in a direction nearly horizontal, and draw- 



