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volcanic Fsrt.atI..n-.
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Inc following y from fhe New York Journal Of
Commerce.
y e Bat lew years since the volcanoes Of Hecla
ID lceland, <Etna 10 Sicily; ind Vesagins III Ita1V
WeIe y aGiRe Operation az tha same time The al6i-
sS seos p @ aeela an9 Yesqvaa are nearly eqHal but
tnabof Eliza ia about ten thousand FEET above fba
sea, OF nearly doabIe that Of Heeia and VeapviFsg A
On the l4th January, ls4s, when the fieTU ernn.
tons Of Hecla were subsidilg the asbea beoer r.
ascend rom the crater, and were thrown to such
height IN the atmosphere as TO fal on tife FaYo
Islands, three hundred and sixty niles distant e
Osou0TO, Acoacagus and Cgunagning, fhrae yoI
canoes in the goTdiLefaa, S. a., extending if a lima
Of two thousand seven hundred iles were all con.
Vulsed at the same time.
The volcanoes Of Mama Loa aad Kiiaaea Sand
Wch lsands, open in the atmosphere at the respects
i've heights Of ten and fifteen thousand FEET above the
sea level These volcanoes are the largest yet dig
covered in earh and during one Of the eFuptons
one og these volcanoes discharged a river oF lava
seventy miles In length Eve miles in BREADTH and Of
unmeasared DEPTH in the short period Of about sev
enty days.
doing the work of DEATH have beneath them and be-
meath the sea that surrounds the volcanic fires 0f
great energy that even the ocean, with It's mighty
power, is unable 70 drown Or extiHguish
On the 18th of October, Is4s one Of the volcanoes
in the New Zealand Islands was aroused ffSrs long
BiumheT, ana about thousand shocks Of eartbduaks
attended its commissions. The Aurora Aastfais Kim
died up its light and terrific thunder and vivid and
tiOn Of the majesty and sublinity ol the grssB Dhe
nomena Of nature Il was then that shocks Of earth
quake were felt simultaneously on the opposite sIe
Of the globe il was then that the AuroTa Borealis
and Aurora Austras united, and bright band encre
cled the whole earth.
When HecIa, in Iceland, was e0nvaIsed TIE eFuIl-
tion produced peskileDce which destroyed both man
and beast The black tongue disease there resuted
from volcanic eruption, and feagnlly Taalignans
was that pestilence thai in many cases the tongue
fell from the mouth Of the victim before life was
extinct.
A volcano capable Of discharging 3 river Of mol
ton lava seventy miles long and FIVE miles wide IL
capable Of affecting the atmosphere Of the earth over
an immense surface, and does affect IT, s our y0Iun-
inous records Of natural phenomena compared with
our meteorological records show. g
Africa has not, as far as am aware, volcano on
It's continent but there are volcanoes on the very
| borders OF that continent
In my geological researches on the American con-
/ tnent, have formed the opinion that the great
American lakes, which describe curve on the sphere
Of the earth, have resulted from volcanic action and
Ontario deep lake, now reposes in the crater 81 a
volcano, and its occasional tidal flows and tI ebuIi-
tons no doubt result from volcanic action deep in tie
bowels of the earth
The immense masses Of metallic copper found Eli
ing the rock ssures in the vicinity of Lake Superior
and the agates found in that vicinity nave no doubt
resulted from volcanic action.