New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-15

afterward a column Of inky backness arose
fully 10000 feet above the mouth q the
crater Az that height ii encountered WIND
which blew f. I'm a horizontal direction toward the
ocean, go that the figure formed was not unlike
that of a carpenters square standing on It's
shorter leg When the force Of the wind was
spent the smoke began 20 dispense clouds 81 II
being waited toward Chimborazo. For an hour
the column continued t. rise from the crater ana
10 be dispersed by the wind. Gradually the
clouds overspread the sky toward the sun ana
then the travellers witnessed sight when
amazed them.
We saw a green sun. and smears Of color some
thing Ike verdiGrisgreen high up IN IN" shy
which changed 10 equally extreme blood-FeuS VI
10 coarse hrick-reds and then passed in an IN
slant 10 the color = furnished copper or shlnin"
brass The terms that | have employed - deS.s-
mate tho colors which were seen are both made
uiiate and ineXact. Their most striking features
were their extraordinary strength. their extreme
coarseness and their dissimilariiy from any tlr-S
or tones ever seen In the Sky, even during sui
rises or sunsets of exceptional brihancY. ln"y
were unlike colors for which there are recognized
terms They commenced to be seen when the
clouds began to pass between the sun and our
selves and not seen previously. Inc
changes from one hue to another had obvious
connection with the varying densites Of the
clouds that passed: which were sometimes tnlcN
end Sometimes light. No Colors wor" seen "h'n
they moved overhead ana surr"uhu'u W. WI an
sides
Rv midday the sun hal been completely OBJ
scured the temperature had fallen unusually low
even for the top Of Chimborazo In summer ana
shortly afterward IL began 10 raln not drops 81
water but volcanic dust. II was in the darkness
caused by this uncanny storm that the photo-
graph was taken Upon tho basis Of observations
made in various places as to the quantity OF dust
deposited on a given area. Mr.. Whympcr est-
oated that the matter elected from CoioiaNi on
that occasion weighed not less than 2.Oopolo ot
tons It is interesting to know thu NJ. Whym7er
had already examined the crater OF Cot'paXi He
and his mountaineers made their way 10 the top
of this peak camped for a night beside the crater
in n SPOT whore the heat of the ground almost
melted the inlia-rulber floor II their tent. ana
gazed down into the smoking bowl which Eiowcd
with fire in every chasm and fissur". The crater
is rreeularIy oval in form 1900 feet in diameter
from north to SOUTH ana 1850 feet from east To
west At intervals f about half an hour the
volcano blew off steam. but 1t appeared mat there
were occasions when the vent closed mp and then
the imprisoned steam gathered force until II
burst out pulvoriz.nC the rocks and minerals ana
producing such stupcnlous phenomena a. that
seen from Chimborlz). Many other peaks wer"
storned by the explorers some q which had
never been assembled before. Iut f. was enough
to have stood On Chinb1razo and CotopaXi tn"
volume IS copiously Illustrated from Nj. Whym-
pcr's sketches AMI photographs. and IS accom-
panied with a good apparatus " maps ani sc!en-
tic tables.