300 Notice of Active and Extinct Volcanos. 



volcano, which had an eruption in 1820, and ejected red-hot 

 stones of prodigious size." 



Among the Moluccas there are two volcanos in the islands 

 of Tervati and Tidore, and in the island of Machian, a moun- 

 tain was rent from top to bottom, in the year 1646, emitting 

 horrible streams of smoke and flame, and now stands divided 

 into two distinct eminences. 



In New Guinea, south latitude 5° 33', Dampier discovered 

 an active volcano. 



" The volcano in the Island of Sang'ir, one of the largest in 

 the world, seems to connect those last mentioned with the burn- 

 ing mountain which I have before described as existing among 

 the Philippines, thus appearing to establish a line of communi- 

 cation between those of Kamschatka and of the Indian Sea." 



"In the Great Pacific Ocean, the islands, according to Kotze- 

 bue, may be referred to two classes, distinguished by their eleva- 

 tion into high and low. The latter class appear to be entirely 

 of modern formation, the product of that accumulation of coral 

 reefs, which Flinders and others have described in so interesting 

 a manner. 



" The high islands on the contrary are chiefly volcanic, though 

 in the Friendly and Marquesa Islands primitive rocks occur, and 

 in Waohoo porphyry and amygdaloid. 



" The Mariana or Ladrone Islands constitute a sort of moun- 

 tain chain, consisting of a line of active volcanos, especially to- 

 wards their north, which is parallel to that of the Phillippine 

 groupe, whereas the islands that lie detached in the middle of the 

 basin, of which these two groups are the boundaries, seem for 

 the most part to be extinguished. 



" The Island of Ahrym, in the groupe of the New Hebrides, 

 contains an active volcano, and the same thing is stated by Fors- 

 ^ter with regard to that of Tanna. A volcano is said by Kotze- 

 bue to be burning in Tofua, one of the Friendly Islands." 



The island of Owyhee is one of the grandest scenes of vol- 

 canic action in the world ; but having given in this Journal, 

 Vol. XI, page 1, a full abstract and analysis of Mr. Ellis' 

 Missionary Tour, to which we are indebted for a very full 

 and interesting account of this volcanic island, and having 

 published also, the account of the Rev. Mr. Stewart, Vol. XI, 

 page 362, describing his descent w T ith Lord Byron and party 

 into the great crater of Kirauea, we shall abstain from any 

 citations from this part of Prof. Daubeny's work. 



