EIFUNSIRI ISLAND. 
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cone lias been split open, and a wild lieadlong 
torrent is now rushing with a mighty roar down 
the side. It was only a few days after the great 
gale, and in this gigantic fissure there were still 
some fearful evidences of the fury of the storm. 
Huo-e trees were torn from their foundations in the 
rock, and tossed jcross the roaring torrent, the bed 
of wdiich waas choked up with great irregular 
masses of rock which had fallen from above. 
In the calm sunshine, adewing this mighty chasm, 
with the raging torrent, the torn-up trees, and the 
stupendous rugged cliffs to^vering around, you are 
led in imagination to picture to yourself the 
scene of an earlier age, when, in some fearful con- 
vulsion of nature, the vast mountain cone was 
itself thrown up, vomiting forth flame and smoke. 
Kifunsiri Island is situated to the north of Risiri, 
from which it is separated by a strait about five 
miles wide. It is eleven miles in a north and south 
direction, by two and a half wide. It is very 
ruo-o-ed. and rises about six hundred feet above the 
level of the sea. 
