San Francisco's horror of earthquake and fire .. to which is added graphic accounts of the eruptions of Vesuvius and many other volcanoes, explaining the causes of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, comp from stories told by eye witnesses of these frightful scenes . ored. Among these sacred mountains arethe sublime Cotopaxi of the Andes, Orizaba of Mexico, Mauna-Ivoa of Hawaii, and Fusi-Yama of Japan. The volcanoes of Java,and chiefly those in the eastern portion of the island, also presenta very majestic appearance on account of their isolation. Those on the western side are based upon an un
San Francisco's horror of earthquake and fire .. to which is added graphic accounts of the eruptions of Vesuvius and many other volcanoes, explaining the causes of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, comp from stories told by eye witnesses of these frightful scenes . ored. Among these sacred mountains arethe sublime Cotopaxi of the Andes, Orizaba of Mexico, Mauna-Ivoa of Hawaii, and Fusi-Yama of Japan. The volcanoes of Java,and chiefly those in the eastern portion of the island, also presenta very majestic appearance on account of their isolation. Those on the western side are based upon an undulatingplateau, which causes them to lose their appearance of height;but on the east all the volcanic mountains rise up from verdantplains like islands above the waves of the sea, and command the 346 CRATERS BELCHING TORRENTS OF STEAM. horizon far and wide with, their enormous cones. Between theMerapi and Lavoe mountains lies a depression, the highest ledgeof which exceeds the level of the sea by only 312 feet. BetweenLavoe and Villis the plain is 230 feet in height. Lastly, theplains which separate the Villis and Keloeet mountains nowhereattain an elevation of more than 200 feet above the ocean. In the external details of their conformation many of the vol-.
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