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of 1874 has become extended, reaching across the main crater in 
a north-northeast and south-southwest direction, to a length of 
ten kilometers. And from its extremities the lava has poured 
forth, beginning on the evening of May 26th. On the southwest 
it took the direction of the old lava flow toward the town of 
Aderné, but its course was arrested after flowing about two kilo- 
meters. From the northeastern extremity of the rift the flow ex- 
80" depth).’ : 
e report of U.S. Consul Owen to the State Department is 
dated Messina, June 20, and in it he says: “The eruption was pre- 
ceded by a slight shock of earthquake that was felt throughout 
the island and at Reggio on the continent. rs were 
opened, one near the summit on the south-southwest side of the 
Mountain and the other on the north-northeast lower down the 
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In Messina the pavements 
north as ¢ rovince of Naples. emen 
and balconies were covered with this black dust, and during its 
a was of ten hours tion, it was disagree to go 
of stones in a state of incandescence, for 
mas 
as each successive discharge would expel the 
melted condition, it would accumulate at the mouth of the crater, 
ing, i i il pressed forward by the dis- 
e ages caused by the eruption have bee x 
1,000,000 of liras. The property damaged consisted of vineyards 
