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sulphur. Korinchi, which was found to measure about 
3600 metres, in other words, not far short of 12,000 
feet, is a far finer peak, with an enormous crater, some 
hundreds of yards in depth, which appears to emit steam 
almost without intermission. Other volcanoes, of scarcely 
less importance, occupy the more southern portion of the 
chain, the chief of which are Kaba and Denrpo. The 
former, although of comparatively low altitude (5413 
feet), has been quite recently the scene of a succession of 
eruptions which, though not destructive to human life, 
have covered the surrounding districts with sand, and 
destroyed its vegetation and animals. Dempo, visited 
and described by Mr. H. O. Forbes, attains a height of 
10,562 feet. It is in a state of constant activity, and 
every three or four years discharges a “ sulphur rain ” 
which injures or destroys all the crops in the adjacent 
country. The Merapi, or present active crater, is about 
half a mile in diameter, with a lake of liquid mud at the 
bottom, some 70 yards across, which is from time to 
time converted into a gigantic geyser. Mr. Forbes thus 
describes the phenomenon:— 
a We had sat thus for ten or twelve minutes when 
I noted that the centre of the white basin had become 
intensely black and scored with dark streaks. This area 
gradually increased. The lake was becoming 
engulfed. A few minutes later a dull, sullen roar 
was heard, and I had just time to conjecture within 
myself whence it had proceeded, when the whole lake 
heaved and rose in the air for some hundreds of feet, not 
as if violently ejected, but with calm, majestic upheaval, 
and then fell back on itself with an awesome roar, which 
reverberated round and round the vast caldron, and 
echoed from rocky wall to rocky wall like the surge of 
an angry sea; and the immense volume of steam, let 
