GUATEMALA. 
384 
Besides the volcanoes contained in the preceding list 
there are in Columbia three volcanic peaks : 
Name. 
Pico Blanco 
Povalo 
Chiriqui . 
Present State. 
Extinct 
(?) 
(?) 
Height. 
11,740 
7,021 
11,265 
Congrehoy Peak. 
The volcanoes on the Atlantic coast have been little 
noticed. Congrehoy Peak has the sharpest cone I have 
ever seen, almost equal¬ 
ling the impossible cones 
in Humboldt’s drawings 
of the Cordilleras; and 
I regret that the only 
photograph I was able to make of the mountain-top 
rising above the low-lying clouds was defective. Trust¬ 
ing too securely to my camera, I did not measure the 
angle, although the sketch I made just before is quite 
as the mountain looks. The sharpness is perhaps the 
result of an eruption said to have taken place a few years 
ago, when the crater fell in and ashes were carried as 
far as Belize, — a hundred and fifty miles. Belonging 
to the same system as Congrehoy and Bonito are the 
Bay Islands. Of these, Utila shows streams of vesic¬ 
ular basaltic lava, and fragments of a more compact, 
older basalt; but I have found neither on this island 
nor on Roatan any signs of a crater. The formation 
is, however, distinctly volcanic, and apparently of a 
period anterior to the eruptions which built the Island 
of Oahu in the Hawaiian Group, — I judge by the 
amount of decomposition and degradation, the lavas 
in both cases being similar in composition and physical 
character. 
