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TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. vi. 



some occasions the mountain has belched forth flame as well as 

 ashes. Several persons whom I examined on this point seemed 

 to be able to discriminate between the appearance of lire-lit clouds 



COTOPAXI IN ERUPTION IN 1743. 



and of actual flame, and positively affirmed tliat they had seen 

 flames rise above the lip of the crater, though not to a great 

 height. La Condamine, in his Journal du Voyage, relates that 

 in 1743-4 flames rose at least two thousand feet above the top 

 of the mountain, and his associates Juan and Ulloa, in their 



