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a small island made its appearance called afterwards 



escaping at every pore tlirougli the 



' It could be seen/ says Com- 



Apliroessa."^ (See i^ fig. 97.) It seems to have consisted of 

 lava pressed upwards and outwards almost imperceptibly 

 by steam, wliich. was 

 hissing scoriaceous crust, 

 mander Lindsay Brine, E-.N., ' through the fissures in the cone 

 that the rocks within were red-hot, but it was not till later 

 that an eruption began. 'f On Tebruary 11, the village of 

 Yulcano on the south-east coast, where there had been a 

 partial sinking of the ground, was in great part overwhelmed 

 by the materials cast out from a new vent which opened hi 

 that neighbourhood, and to which the name of George was 



(see ^, fig- 97), which finally, according to Schmidt 

 became about 200 feet high. Commander Brine 

 ascended on February 28, 1866, to the top of the crater of 

 Nea Kaimeni about 350 feet high, looked doAvn upon the 

 new vent then in full activity. The whole of the cone was 

 swaying with an undulating motion to the right and left, and 

 appeared sometimes to swell to nearly double its size and 

 height, to throw out ridges like mountain spurs, till at last 

 a broad chasm appeared across the top of the cone, accom- 

 panied by a tremendous roar of steam, and the shooting up 



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new crater to the heiofht of 



from 50 to 100 



feet of tons of rock and ash mixed with smoke and steam. 

 Some of these which fell on Micra-Kaimeni at a distance of 

 600 yards from the crater, measured 30 cubic feet. This 

 eflPort over, the ridges slowly subsided, the cone lowered and 

 closed in, and then, after a few minutes of comparative 

 silence, the struggle would begin again with precisely similar 

 sounds, action, and result. Threads of vapour escaping from 



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the old crater of Nea Kaimeni proved that there was a sub- 

 terranean connection between the old and new vents.' % 



Aphroessa, of which the cone was at length raised to a 

 height of more than 60 feet, was united in August Avith the 

 main island. This was due in part at least to the upheaval 

 of the bottom of the sea, which is now only 7 fathoms 



^ Schmidt, cited by Von Tlauer. * 



Geograpliieal Proc. Nov. 10th, 1866, 



t Brine, Visit to Santorin. Eoyal vol. x. p. 317. 



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