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      tl «^ i 0 le ^ rate ^ TiwbiGh-i » lmif a mile atr ^^ y ^ ^ was ^^ kdhc ^ abv / alkMtffof steani , ot whki ^ sm oke ^ - » hi ^ cleared away at times , and shewed ug ^ depth of eight hundred feet from the place \^^ ewe ^ re ^> 9 taf ^ ti ^ Wnd & % & thousand two hundred fk > m the shag > and broken * summit wMehjr <» et&feifr £ H us * Jts precipitous sidss ^ weTe bteck with asl 3 e £ and * with lav& , ^ d yiH ^ l with sulphur ; and in the bottom was another crater , fmrawhi <^ s ^ i ^^ a

      issuing , and which was itself some hundred feet cteep ^ u .- * , t , q / -it ba ^ cl av / - .. ' . * - And in the lowest deep a lower 4 e £ p < e ; .- n : . u , ^ I It was truly a most singular and . even , terrific sign . ^ , and mustliay ^^^ ea ¦ whi ch the to

      still more so before the late eruption , ^ fille d up c rate r $$ he / i g ^ t of six hundred feet , This eruption , ( if * eruption it caa .. be /^) Ie ^ . fot '' | £ e lava did not burst through the crust of the cone , ) began with shoej ? s qf ari eartfi ^ ualce on the 1 4 th of March . It was at its height in the night fetwee ^ theiJM £ nd 23 d , at which time the flames rose high above the top , and we ^ acjcoii ) ponied by a booming noise . On the 23 d it was dangerous tp a ^ erid , ^ the volcano threw out stories ; and it continued to throw out

      cinders till the 26 th . When it began , several small craters were formed in tfife KbttW of the large one ; and these at last all joined to form the lower , of tne two which at present exist . My guide told me that there were no . f&Wef ''' tfaxi four hundred persons at the top in the night of the 22 nd , and tliat they remained there a considerable time without inconvenience , for the wind drove the flames the other way . The following night there was morej danger ; but I saw a gentleman who went up even then . He told me that a red-hoi ; stone came rolling down the cone , precisely in the pathJby which he and his party were ascending , and would haye fajjen upon them , Ija . ^ . they not got out of the way . Notwithstanding this lie perseyeredjp . mounts to the

      iri ^ top , and was amply repaid for , his . ^ olj Jness by tl |\ e g ^ ind , the ; tefrffic sdene which there presented itself . i ? ne vQlcap ^ lie ' s ^ i ^ to heave from the bottom , till at length ^ tjhe / bqiling ^ att ^ f ^| pw > b ^ ij §^ J ne ^ pf ^ rincti ' mbent mass , and threw up a volley of hoi \ v st 6 n , es mto . ihe air . iTlese at last came in such quantiiies ^ and so dir

      ^^ view ' bf the bay , with the islands of fechia andYxq < oi % ( m , tfie idistenQa . j .. Sunday IBtni 1 atteMetf s % tOT t ^ weteabout seventy Arsons present : and it was mpurnMio ^ tr ^ ik tnaUftefier of even one hundred and , twenty , which js ' the tjsual numte , wem th / e . qnlv * p . rir ^ jci ^^^^ ^ _ . _ . _ ^ .. fc * — ^^ ¦ , \ m Mrf - - - ¦• **— * * — •— * - ¦ - — ...-. - I . —^ - . - - 1 .-- *¦ - - - ¦*—*• ^ -JLi ^ -A . A _ - ¦ 1 ¦ ¦ i ir ¦ ¦ ¦¦ '

      — ' , ''¦ ' ¦ "; -- — 7 , .. ^ ; - ' ~ TZ * — J ^ —'" IIP ., " "HI ' TT-rr ; ^— :- ' . '" ' ' —^ (" J | . - " * * Our guide told us , and fliave se ?^ miles in circiimference ; but jfhis ^ ai ^ only tity faemaiiig all Ha turns an $ > v » paMi | $ as a regular circle of hilf ft iMte in dlatft ^ te ^ « woM % Hsi / t a drcuiiiferedce drrfnfe ffiid a half .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 833, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/33/