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2 ashes is now not so great, but they are still coming down, looking in the 
air like a thin mist or a light snow-sto The co has a most sin- 
gular and melancholy appearance. The ashes are heavy and the trees are 
| bowed under their loads, while every where, in the streets and on the hill 
sides, there is the same ashy color, to which the sun, scarce y seen, gives 
only an additional sickly hue, Last night, although the moon was but 
one day past being full, was the darkest night that I think I have ever 
seen. e ashes appear under a lens to be feldspar grains, 
b- There has been considerable uneasiness and anxiety in this place, prob- 
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the bells all over the city, had a most melancholy effect. They carried, 
€ procession, three images of a peculiarly sacred character, brought 
from Rome. 
We have not yet heard from places nearer Cotopaxi, but are expecting 
sad accounts both from the ashen shower and fro 
Sola’s college is situated) not far from Cotopaxi; which city has in several 
coseing been a very severe sufferer in the convulsions originating in the 
Olcano, 
k 1 o’clock.—The fall of ashes has recommenced as thick as ever and the 
bells are tolling again. Another procession has just passed the door. 
Was a very sad and solemn spectacle. The people were seven deep on 
each side of the street, the inmost line with candles and lanterns; the 
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their heads and garments all covered with ashes. They had several 
mages on platforms; and bands of music playing mournful tunes; some- 
times chanting, s 
7. mM—The ash-shower has ceased; but Cotopaxi is thundering at a 
Prodigious rate, 
Monday evening, 15th.—It is now pretty well ascertained that the ashes 
Were not from Cotopaxi, but from a volcano called Laraurco, in a wil 
country to the eastward of this, a considerable distance. There was a 
shower of ashes from that voleano in 1844, about as heavy as this, 
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