270 ‘Scientific Intelligence. 
are two vast crateriform cavities near the place of ejection, looking 
like deep gulfs of subsidence, and exposing a succession of layers of 
compact lava beds alternating with beds of scoria. On the south side, 
the volcanic action has opened a large gorge in the flancs of the great 
going from 
ing from the iron heads of their canes whenever they gave them a ver 
tical position. <A fall of snow continued through the night till 10 the 
next morning and covered the whole cone with sleet to more than 4 
foot in depth, making the route extremely slippery, and that of their 
ascent thus far nearly impassable. A third attempt was made ont 
Septe r; but was unsuccessful on account o 
Again on the 28th July, 1845, M. Abich made his fourth trial, and 
reached tk t noon on the 29th. The top corresponds t 
most élevated of the west side of a great crater of elevation. 
r 
This side has the character of a back with a gently rounded and undu- 
lated surface, and varied with several low hills, running in a line nearly 
northeast and southwest. The two middle hills are the proper top of 
Ararat; the left one was visited by Parrot. . 
e neck between the great and little Ararat is low and flat and in- 
cludes a perfectly horizontal plane about 550 yards broad. The debris 
on the summit of little Ararat consists of fragments of a rock like the 
Andesite of South America.—p. 265, March 8, 1851. 
ter Spouts.—M. Boué describes three water spouts, which * 
Lake Janina. His sketches represent three oblong inverted cones 
resting on the lake and terminating abruptly above; and he says that 
the cones or funnels were empty within, as he could look down 1!? 
