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June 9 
This day began beautiful and ciwur, after the delude of the sight 
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before that cleared the atmos. -a of voles, aie duet. The short smoke plume 
of Pari cut ia was clear and sharply visible froa Uru&pan, with a long dark 
trail of dust clouds carried miles to the south by the winds* 
At nine, fleecy clouds began to gather in all directions, as is usual 
In this region at this time or the year, but store ao blow the long dust 
curtain. Coiaj »ft to the vapor cl s, t dust cloud had © pinkish brown 
color. It ms noticed thus, as well as on previous occasions, that upon 
lateral Ingltes* Hi* vapor® saints their I itify until t; ,o mm thor- 
oughly laeeh&nieslly mixed. At 2 o« clock in the afternoon, approachim, 3a» 
Juan Parangarieut iro , one could see, through a gap in the encircling hills, 
the cone of Parioutia and. its huge billowing column of smoke. 
At 3 P H, while we were awaiting our horses and mules at Parangaricuti.ro 
& glance down the street of the tom showed a marked decrease of the smoke 
to a thin languid colu&m, that shrunk perceptibly as we watched, as if the 
volcano had. been turned off anti slowly subsided to rest, until, a half hour 
later there remined but a mail wisp of pale vapor, accompanied by an oc- 
casional quiet burst of large blocks of rooks end an unnatural c aim settled 
over the cose. 
To arrived at Vm "cc&qpaaie&to-” about 4 o* clock. The old lava flow of 
1 ebruary-Mareh was now completely covered by anb, except for the peaks and 
crags that projected above the surface or faced the edge of the flow, and 
the numerous fuaaroles along the lava front gave off, lastly, their usual 
white or bluish fumes. 
The rather tranquil state of the crater did not last long but soon the 
activity began to ine e so, gradually and almost imperceptibly , m : ?t nine 
o’clock the explosive burst again following each other in rwwtd ga na e ea ten, 
