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have buried beneath it Zohag, one of their tyrants, whose 

 struggles agitate this mountain, as those of Typhoeus did 

 Etna. 



From India the accounts of volcanic appearances are few 

 and scanty. 



The island of Salsette, near Bombay, is basaltic, and a vol- 

 cano emitting smoke, but not flame, is said to have been dis- 

 covered in the Himalaya mountains. 



In China and Tartary it would appear that there are sev- 

 eral volcanic mountains in a state of activity. The mountain 

 Ho-chan, to the north of Khouei-thsu, is said to throw out 

 stones in a burning and melted state ; the lava first flows and 

 then congeals. Sal-ammoniac is obtained from this moun- 

 tain: it forms a part of the snowy chain of the celestial 

 mountains. Sal- Ammoniac, which, when formed by nature, 

 always indicates a volcanic country, is produced in two moun- 

 tains in central Tartary ; the one, the volcano of Tourfair, 

 the other, the white mountain ; these two mountains throw 

 out, continually, flames and smoke ; these volcanos are one 

 thousand and two hundred miles from the Caspian. They 

 obtain Sal-Ammoniac there which the people collect by en- 

 tering into hot caverns, with wooden shoes, as those of leath- 

 er would be burnt. (See Ferussac's Bulletin, Vol. 3, 1824.) 

 The number of volcanos and solfaterras, in central Asia, does 

 not appear to be determined. Pallas, in 1770, visited one in 

 the government of Orenberg, near Soulpa, which threw out 

 smoke by day and light flames at night. 



" The only active volcanos on the Continent of Asia, that ap- 

 pear to be fully ascertained, are those on the Peninsula of Kamt- 

 schatka. 



" Kraskeninikoff, in his history of that province, translated 

 into French in 1767, makes mention of three ; viz. 



" 1. Awachinski, north of the bay Awatscha, which had an 

 eruption in 1737, followed by a tremendous earthquake, during 

 which the sea overflowed the land, and afterwards receded so 

 far, as to leave its bed, between the first and second of the Ku- 

 rule Islandss, dry. 



" 2. Tulbatchinski, situated on a tongue of land between the 

 rivers of Kamtschatka and Tulbatchik. Its first eruption took 

 place in 1739, and caused the country for 50wersts to be cover- 

 ed with ashes. 



" 3. Kamtschatka Mountain, the loftiest in the country. It 

 was in a state of eruption in 1737, the same year in which the 



