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volcanic mountains of kamtshchatka. 
lence from its crater, as to reduce to ashes the forests oo 
neighbouring mountains. This was succeeded by a 
of smoke, which overspread and darkened the whole 
try until it was dissipated by a shower of cinders, 
covered the ground to the distance of thirty miles. ^ 
third volcano is on the top of the particular mounta» ^ 
Kamtschatka, which is described as by y 
the peninsula. It rises, from two rows of hills, some j 
111 tire form of a sugar-loaf, to a very great height-^ 
usually throws out ashes twice or thrice a year, s 
times in such quaiitkies,J;hat for three hundred jersK,_^^ 
hundred and siKty-five English miles, the earth is co' 
with them. In the year 1 737, at the latter end ot &cpt«,, 
ber, a conflagration, which lasted for a week, was so 
lent and terrhic, that the mountain appeared, to those ^ 
were fishing at sea, like one red-hot rock ; and the 
which burst through several openings, with a drej| ^ 
noise, resembled rivers ot tire, from the inside o.j) 
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mountain were heard tlmnderings, cracking.s, - j 
like those of the strongest bellows, shaking all the i>H 
bouring terriiory. During the night it was most tettr 
but at" length the conflagration ended by the moun . 
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casting forlli :i prodigious quaniii.y ot cinders and 
mnong which were porous stones, and glass 
colours. When Captain Clarke sailed out ot the J 
of St. Peter and St. Paul, in June, I7/S,to the north' „ 
an eruption of the first of these volcanoes was obs«^ 
A rambling noise, resembling distant hollow thunder, 
heard before dav -light; and when the day broke, y 
decks and sides of the ships were covered with a fine ^ 
resembling emery, nearly an inch thick, the air e yJ 
same time being charged with this substance to j)( 
degree, that towards tlie mountain, which is situated » 
ntrrth of the harbovir, the surrounding objects * 
bo distinguished. About twelve o’clock, and dnrii'»j> 
afternoon, the explosions became louder, and 
lowed by showers of cinders, which were in general ^ |{( 
tlie size of peas, though many were picked up " 
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dedt larger than a hazel-nut. Along with the nind^^ 
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several small stones which had not undergone any 
from the action of foe. 
