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and disappears*! bo rapidly that it was uncertain fro®. where it had come or 
whence it had gone. Tremendous irregular oran a colored lava quickly 
followed and then fell, for the most part, back into the crater. 
ith considerable trepidation we cautiously climbed a ridge of pushed and 
scrambled ash that shut off our rim? o the actual source of leva end looked 
do.-:n upon a stream o" rock that eeeaed to bare no apparent source. The dark; 
rugged surface clocks, rising on the glowing lava, filed slowly past like 
soldiers on review. 
By August this ridge had grown, to such an extent that the area 
was totally unrecognizable. Its teminelfrost was new about 100 meters high. 
Semusmte of bedded ash crowned its summit. f&xtxxMr&m its fora was a m&m 
o-r he?e blocks sn-^ 
cr occasionally rolled incan- 
descent blocks of rook. From these elides arose a billowing pink to reddish 
billowy dust of oxidised ash. Its terminal front was soared and gashed, and 
broken into hu e blocks and sharp spires. These slowly disintegrated by 
spasmodic trickltas of incandescent fragments or the fell of hug© red blocks, 
its entire face in continuous change. Occasionally small lobes of viscous 
lava bulged out and at one time what appeared to be low flames broke out in 
® sroviofe of a huge pinnacle. Obviously the ridge ?*a a slow advance of vis- 
cous lava, advancing under the cover of ash, the ridge increasing in height, 
®* as advancing toward the north. Three flows broke out from its 
western flank, like pigs from a sow, one on Aug. advancing as a huge flood, 
carrying along huge blocks of solidified but still incandescent rock. 
fitting on the aim slope, nearby the flowing lava, oae could frequently 
'near a dull crack from below the ash and feel a distinct shack as the soil and 
ash. mantle of the surface gave way under the steady pressure of the advancing 
lava one! small pressure ridges were formed. 
