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Hobbs.—Notes on a Trip to the Lipari Islands. 
the Italian volcanoes in general. Dr. Johnston-Lavis kindly furnished 
us with a letter of introduction to Mr. A. E. Narlian of Lipari, and sup¬ 
plied us with much valuable information concerning the islands. We 
had in onr outfit a small camera belonging to my friend, to whom I am 
indebted for the photographs from which the figures in this paper were 
prepared. We were also fortunate to fall in at Naples with Dr. Brauns 
of Marburg, with whom I had made geological tramps in Saxony. He 
was accompanied by his brother and bound for the Lipari islands, so that 
we joined onr forces, making a party of four. I have thought that it 
might be well to put on record some of onr observations and at the 
same time collect the main facts in the history of Volcano. 
The town of Lipari, as seen from Mte Rosa. Mte Guardia on the right. On the left, in the 
distance, is Volcano, with eruption beginning. 
The trip to Messina was made without notable incident, unless it be 
the difficulty we had in getting aboard onr vessel on the evening of onr 
departure from Naples. The vessel does not come to the wharf, but is 
moored out some distance in the bay so that passengers must secure 
boatmen with yawls to go aboard. We selected what were apparently 
the least villainous of the Neapolitan boatmen lounging about the land¬ 
ing and bargained with them to take ns aboard onr vessel. Just as the 
landing stairs of the vessel were reached a demand was made for double 
the tariff. I being nearest the landing stairs jumped out, throwing the 
boatmen the rate agreed upon. Before the others could do so the boat 
was pushed away from the vessel. Mounted to the deck, I saw and 
heard a lively discussion between my friends and the boatmen, carried 
on in bad Italian with occasional German and English interjections on 
the one hand and very voluble Italian on tbo other. The boat drifted 
