. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. VOLCANIC AGENCIES. 29 Zealand, comprises the active cones of the New Hebrides, the Santa-Cruz and Solo- mon g'rou]3s, the chain of the Philippines, and of Japan, where Milne reckons 129, of which thirty-five are active, the Kurile Archipelago with sixteen, the Aleutian Islands with thirty-four, of which ten are active. Through the Alaskan peninsula' the series is connected with those of the west coast of America, which are continued southwards to the Bridgeman and other cones and westwards to the New Shet- land Islands. Here rises the breached cra
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. VOLCANIC AGENCIES. 29 Zealand, comprises the active cones of the New Hebrides, the Santa-Cruz and Solo- mon g'rou]3s, the chain of the Philippines, and of Japan, where Milne reckons 129, of which thirty-five are active, the Kurile Archipelago with sixteen, the Aleutian Islands with thirty-four, of which ten are active. Through the Alaskan peninsula' the series is connected with those of the west coast of America, which are continued southwards to the Bridgeman and other cones and westwards to the New Shet- land Islands. Here rises the breached crater of Deception Island with its circular haven 18 or 20 miles round and 500 feet deep, whose flanks consisting of alternate Fig. 10.—Volcanoes of the Pacific. Scale 1: 200,000, Miles. strata of ice and ashes discharge rivulets of thermal waters. Lastly, this focus of activity is connected by the arc of a circle passing by the south pole with the three lofty cones of Erebus, Terror, and Melbourne, the first of Avhich still casts a lurid light over the dreary waste of snow. Between these giants and New Zealand the vast circuit is completed by a succession of islands and headlands, partly at least composed of lavas. Within the circuit itself occur the lines of faults, through which have been vomited mountains of scoriae or ashes, and most of these cones run in parallel lines. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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