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1946 
Feb. 19 - contd. 
Some lavas now more than two years old do not show fumaroles, but there 
are places where it is very hot; when it rains one can see the vapors 
best. Very cloudy all day long. Bomb explosions and noises from 
the crater. 
20 - Simple white vapors from the crater. Some explosions raise a high 
pillar of vapor and at times Has one notes two columns, when the two vents 
of the crater are active. In the three years of activity that this vol- 
cano of Paricutin completes today, the only feature it does not have that 
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.it had in the beginning is the heavy explosions, but all others, the lava, 
the vapors, the sand, the noise, bombs thrown from the crater, etc., are 
little diminished. The consolation we have is to see at what a distance 
one may again till the fields. .lith still some risk, they have worked 
at a distance of 12 kilometers, particularly on the more elevated slopes. 
Rain to the north during the afternoon. 
21 - A fantastic column, weak, black tornidos (?). It dawned today 
showering ashes toward the north. At nine in the morning noises that 
sound like a deluge of rain. Large clouds over the area. In the after- 
noon showers toward the southwest. Strong puffs of wind from the east. 
In the crater strong noises, some like thunder. In the night one sees 
more incandescent rocks on the north and northwest flank of the cone. 
22 - The lava of the hornitos, that broke out more than a month ago 
flowed 700 meters in nine days, according to measurements by 3r. ICrauskopf . 
In the village of Paricutin it has spread over a previous one for more 
than 400 meters and at the front carries a tongue that reaches almost to 
the place called Fuirambosta, on the land of Sr. Rafael Ortiz R. There 
the two barrancas of the principal drainage of the villages of San Juan 
and Paricutin join. Only a few meters of each (barranca) remains un- 
