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Photograph by J. W. Shipley 



COLLECTING GAS FOR ANALYSIS FROM A SMALL VENT AMIDST A MAZE OE EUMAROLES 

 "In laying out work in advance it sounds easy to poke a glass tube into a vent and pump 

 the gas into a collector, but in the field all sorts of difficulties crop out which require great 

 patience and resourcefulness to overcome. Moreover, a volcano is not an easy customer to 

 deal with at close range." 



step into a chasm intensely hot, I yet 

 pushed on as soon as I found myself 

 safely over a particularly dangerous-ap- 

 pearing- area. I didn't like it, and yet I 

 did. 



"I felt like a boy at a circus, for I 

 couldn't take time to study the attraction 

 before me because I suspected something 

 more captivating further on. Nor was I 

 ever disappointed, for nothing was ex- 

 actly like anything else. 



"The broken hills, the falling moun- 

 tains, the magnificent glaciers, the steam- 

 ing fumaroles, and the rolling streams 

 can all be described, but their wonderful 

 profusion and the manner in which they 

 encroached upon one another must re- 

 main largely in possession of him who is 

 fortunate enough to make a visit to the 

 locality where these things abound in ex- 

 traordinary splendor." 



LIKE A HUGE CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING 

 PLANT 



L. W. Shipley, Chemist.— "On first 

 entering the valley from between the two 

 guardian volcanic cones, I experienced 

 the same sensation as the man who on 

 seeing a girafife for the first time ex- 

 claimed, 'There ain't no such animal.' 

 The quiet evolution of myriads of col- 

 umns of vapor from the floor of a wide, 

 desolate valley, the encompassing moun- 

 tain ridges, the sequestered isolation, the 

 avalanches of rocks, all vividly recalled 

 Sinbad's adventures in the 'Arabian 

 Nights.' It is so unreal. 



"Hot streams flow from beneath banks 

 of snow; extensive glaciers hobnob with 

 steaming fumaroles, while icebergs and 

 hot water are found in the same little 

 lake. Enormous mud-flows appear to 

 have run uphill. A stick chars when 



