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when turning a sudden corner we found ourselves face to 

 face with a view that banished all thought of past and 

 future annoyances in a moment. Before us, eighty miles 

 or more away, stood one of the grandest groups of 

 volcanoes in the known world. Others there are, it is 



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true, that are higher, although in most cases the elevation 

 cf the ground from which they take their rise detracts in 

 no little degree from their apparent height. Cut here, 

 from a base elevated scarce a hundred feet above the sea, 

 a series of cones of the most exquisitely symmetrical shape 



The Volcano rl ku, lulskiji 



rose in heights varying from twelve to seventeen thousand ' imityto one another, rose the twin peaks of Kojetevska 

 %^\ ''.'^'^y "^■■e I'lree in number. Nearest us was and Kluchefskaya, perfect in their outline, pyramids of 

 Tolbatchmska, dog-toothed in shape, with its apex on the the purest snow, before which one felt how poor was all 

 western side, a long thin puff of white smoke drifting j language to express the sense of their perfect beauty, 

 from its shoulder ; and beyond, apparently in close prox- i Snow mountains were no novelty to us. We had seen the 



