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red hot for half way down, while the remainder of its background 
work was glittering with innumerable glowing sparks. It was 
a secon 
fest 
cinders, to the height of about 500 feet above the mouth of the 
orifice. egular explosions occurred at intervals, varying from 
ten to thirty minutes, increasing the force and volume of the dis- 
om pr sending t them far up into the rolling clouds above. 
The cinders we in d 
surface, the two craters being that distance apart and both dis- 
; charging simultaneously. The half horizontal crater was about . 
twenty feet in diameter. | 
On the afternoon of the 27th, after a series of explosions which 
seemed to shake the earth to its center, the voleano commenc 
discharging vast quantities of black sa and and heavier rocks. The | 
column of flame at night was considerably increased in height, 
and bright meteor-like spots were seen ascending in the flames to 
ually grows deener and coarser. For a mile pee the crater 
creases to several feet in depth, and the particles gradually in- 
_ ¢rease in size until the . become ee broken rocks. About the 
sey of th e cone roun got de rocks from sone to _- feet i in 1 diam- 
side, is covered with shard br sha going generally less than a 
- foot in g ridge of black scoria leads out from 
the branch crater ina ‘northeasterly direction. e slaggy lava- 
by the sbarp- 
of anna the vlse the es 
