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and they were finally stranded. Fortunately 
it was low water, or all of the people at the 
settlement must inevitably have been lost. 
The tides rise and fall about fourteen feet. 
These earthquake waves were felt at Kadiak, 
and are doubtless recorded on the register of 
the coast-survey tide-gauge at that place. 
Also the pumice-ashes fell to the depth of four 
or five inches, and a specimen of the deposit 
was given to the tidal observer at St. Paul. 
It will be interesting to compare these ashes 
with those collected at Iliuliuk on the 16th of 
October, and which, from a confusion of dates, 
were supposed to have come from the new 
Bogosloff volcanicisland. Iam of the opinion 
that they came from St. Augustin. 
The condition of the Island of Augustin or 
MOUNT ST. AUGUSTIN AFTER THE ERUPTION, 
Chernaboura, according to the latest accounts, . 
is this : — 
At night, from a distance of fifty or sixty 
mniles, flames can be seen issuing from the sum- 
mit of the volcano; and in the day-time vast 
volumes of smoke roll from it. Upon nearer 
approach from English Harbor, it was found 
that the mountain had been split in two from 
peak to base by a great rupture extending 
across it from east to west, and that the north- 
ern slope of the mountain had sunk away to 
the level of the northern cliff. This is corrobo- 
rated by the statement of the hunting-party in 
Kamishak Bay. Smoke issued from the peak 
at a very short distance to the southward of 
the rupture. 
The party of natives on Kamishak did not 
approach the islet, though they gave clear and 
i Capt. Cullie’s account. 
SCIENCE. 
' distinct accounts of its eruption and subse- 
AS SEEN BY CAPT. CULLIE, Nov. 10, 1883. 
-[Vou. IIL, No. 54. — 
quent appearance; but Capt. C. T. Sands, 
who was at English Harbor, gave the Alaska 
company a full description; and Capt. Cullie 
of the Kodiak states, that, if there were plenty 
of water in the line of rupture, it would be pos- 
sible for a vessel to sail through (see figure). 
At the time of Capt. Sands’s observations the 
low ground of the island was visible, and 
seemed to be a vast crater, from which smoke 
and flames were issuing. 
But beyond all these phenomena, apart from 
the volcanic eruption and the rupture of the 
island, we have the report of Capt. Cullie of 
the schooner Kodiak (from whom we also ob- 
tain a statement in regard to the rupture), who 
approached the island from English Harbor on 
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the 10th of November, and found that a new 
island, about a mile and a half long and seven- 
ty-five feet high, had been upheaved in the ten- 
fathom passage between Augustin and the main- 
land to the westward. ‘This passage is from 
six to eight miles wide, and was sailed through 
by Puget in Vancouver’s voyages of discovery. 
This new island (also reported by the hunt- 
ing-party in Kamishak) would appear to have 
arisen during the late volcanic activity. It lies 
to the north-westward of Chernaboura Island 
(Augustin), and was distinctly seen from the 
Kodiak, as that vessel lay ten miles to the, 
north- eastward, and had clear weather. 
To show the violence of the volcanic con- 
vulsions at this time, two extinct volcanoes on — 
the Alaska peninsula, which are reported to be 
about west (true) from the active voleano Ili- 
amna (twelve thousand feet high), had burst — 
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