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Jan. 3 - contd. 
lies to the southwest of the cone and its flows to the northwest. 
4 - The noises continue, only diminishing a little for a few seconds 
then repeating with more force. They do not affect the vapor column, 
for these rise without any force. They are no mere than a white mist 
that gathers in a dense black cloud 6-8 kilometers northeast of the 
volcano. Gusts of dust all during the afternoon. In the night the 
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crater almost without light or scoria. 
^ - .ihe noises in the crater continue and the vapor which arises is a 
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veil, becomes finer at a distance. It drifts toward the northeast. 
Here and there a little cloud appears in the region. The winds blow 
from the east, changing to west winds in the afternoon. At six O’clock 
in the evening, the vapor column changed in a moment towqrd the southwest. 
In the night not an incandescent bomb of any size. 
o - It dawns with a curtain of cloud connecting the Cerro de Tancitaro 
witn that of Fataraba, west of the volcano, and a hoar frost covers the 
region. The noises of the crater lessen, the vapors that form are 
white, simple, and rise without force, only when the noises are stronger 
are tne va P ors yellowish. After midday violent winds from the west and 
tie dust are terrible. The lava vent southwest of the cone continues 
in activity, pouring lava down the slope at approximately 30 meters per 
minute. Almost in all parts of the southwest of the cone the rocks 
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ihis is extraordinarily rapid. Thirty meters per hour is what 
Celedonia Guiterrez may mean. 
are tinted green or yellow through the gases given off by the vents of 
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the horn it os. The homitos particularly the small cone south of the 
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The term hqrnito is used at Paricutin for irregular chimey-like forms 
on the lava from which gases issue. 
