:;::"::si: THE VOLCANO BY MOONLIGHT jk:::;;::: 



What follows seems a direct result of the moment- 

 ary outpourmg of glory. As if the sun's rays had ig- 

 nited the pale clouds above the living crater, they take 

 to themselves a soft rose hue. This grows and grows, 



THE VOLCANO IN ERUPTION 



more warm, more brilliant, until the height of colour 

 is reached. The sky and bank of clouds beyond the 

 mountain are of the darkest blue, Avhile the sharply de- 

 fined column of white steam ascending from the crater 

 is stained a fiery red on the side toward the sunset. 

 From this point the red is spread out in an ever-widen- 

 ing 23ath, its brilliancy softened until, in mellow tints 

 of roseate haze, it warms the whole western sky. Earth- 

 flame and sun-glory — the one the daughter of the other 



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