GO 



GEAHAM ISLAND. 



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around being covered with floating cinders and dead fish 

 Tlie scorioe were of a chocolate colonr^ and the water which. 

 boiled in the circular basin was of a dingy red. The eruption 



Fig. 9 1 . 



View of the interior of Graham Island, 29th Sept. 1831. 



continued with great violence to the end of the same month : 



time 



K, and M. Hoffi 



Fig. 92. 



Graham Island, 29th Sept. 1831.^ 



from 



the Prussian geologist. It was then 



height, and | of a mile in circumference. By August 4 it 



became, according to some accounts, above 200 feet higli, 



* In the annexed sketch (fig. 92), 



am informed by M. Prevost that these 



drawn by M. Joinville, who accompanied lines were not intended by the artist to 

 M. C. Prevost, the beds seem to slope represent the dip of the beds. 

 toward.K the centre of the crater; but I 



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