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In %b» western point of the lows t terrace of tha slid© was discernible 
« pet eh of reddish oxidised ash with occasional falls of rock, eecompa&led 
hy wisps of reddish dust, obviously an area in slow motion, it eleven in. 
the morning rad incandescent lava appeared. Its rate of flow «as 30 asters 
psr hour, but it soon ceased its advance. The high steep front of ash of 
the lower terrace also advanced slowly to the north by the continuous sliding 
down of ash and rock, and, although it advanced some few meters, no lava 
appeared along Its face. 
All day long Pari cut in was in one of its more tranquil moods, with few 
bursts of bombs a»c the continued billowing plume of moke. 
At 7:40 ? U there suddenly appeared near the northwest base of the cone 
a this column of white smoke, too large for a fumarole and within the stain 
portion of tha old lava, whore no fuaaroJes existed. Within a minute or two 
its base gleamed red and it increased in sine and intensity. Believing that 
it presaged the begin-' ia« of a n .-m crater, m hastened to the spot, encoun- 
tering in our kbj an area of ash dial# *' and furrowed, like a deeply 
plows,! field, and beyond found a low cliff of black lava, seemed and gushed 
by glowing cracks, and slowly disintegrating. H age incandescent blocks rolled 
down it* -front ami mjnsimng trieltle** of swell streamed *ovn Its 
aides, and a font rnnll streamlets of truly liquid 1 are coursed down in narrow 
-stringers. 
About 15 minutes after our arrival, a spot, about mo meter across became 
mom incandescent, changing from the glowing rod of the leva cracks to a 
brilliant orange yellow, and began to ".crk like leavening bread, and then to 
slowly flow. Slowly the moving area spread, and within five minutes the entire 
cliff, for s width of five meters had melted into a flow of brilliant orange, 
that advanced quietly post the small ash knoll on which we had taken stance. 
t*ow and then, from the incandescent surface of the flow, small pebbles shot up 
