. Photo li} iK.in r. Worcester 
A PORTION OF THE CRATER WAEE OE TAAE VOLCANO SHOWING STRATIFICATION 
The walls of this crater often show quite bright colors during the rainy season, but turn 
dingy gray during the dry season (see page 331) 
and ashes piled upon them, and feared 
that the turn of the convento and church 
of Caysasay would come next. Shortly 
before daybreak of December i there was 
a tremendous crash, as if the house were 
coming down over our heads : the roof 
of the apsis of the church had caved in ! 
Not long afterward the roof of the 
kitchen gave way with a similar thtid. 
Both were tile roofs. 
"The ist of December broke somewhat 
clear and our eyes contemplated every- 
where ruins and destruction. The layer 
of ashes and mud was more than five 
spans [i.io meters, or 43 inches] thick, 
and it was almost a miracle that the 
roofs of the church and convento sus- 
tained so great a weight. We caused 
the bulk of the material to be removed, 
while new continued to fall on that day 
and the following, on which latter the 
direction of the wind changed, carrying 
the ejecta toward Balayan. On the 3d 
and 4th we had a formidable typhoon, 
and thereafter the volcano quieted down. 
''Soon afterward I resolved to visit 
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