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what hajjpened on the night of the erujjtion was secured by conversa- 

 tions with people who had witnessed it at close range from different 

 points of view. On January 30, the writer went to Banadero, a town 

 near the volcano, and during a large part of the subsequent field work 

 Mr. Charles Martin, photographer of the Bureau of Science, was with 

 him. Mr. Martin also was on Volcano Island just before the main 

 eruption. 



Location and brief desmption of Taal Volcano. — Taal Volcano near 

 the center of Lake Bombon may be said to constitute an island with the 

 active crater centrally located on it. Its rim is low, varying from 100 

 to 320 meters in elevation. Its floor stood just above sea level prior 

 to this last eruption. The volcano is about 60 kilometers south of Ma- 

 nila. The crater has an area of about 3 square kilometers, the island 

 contains about 25 square kilometers, and Lake Bombon covers an area 

 of approximately 320 square kilometers. Each is roughly oval in general 

 outline. There were seven small barrios (villages) on the island and 

 Lake Bombon was fringed with the homes of native fishermen and sugar- 

 cane planters. Attention is directed to Plates I and II, and text figure 

 No. 1, in connection with these details of location. 



manilM 



M AN I LA 



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Text Fig. No. 1. 



