. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . rater thatis gradually widening itself by means of amighty lateral blast of ash-laden steam ; butthough fast sapping the parent crater of itsenergy, it brings neither lava nor scoriae to theformation of a cone. In consequence of these varied processes theJapanese volcanoes present a remarkable varietyof formations. Normality of structure is theexception. Hardly two are alike in shape orarrangement. It is a new experience to be ableto walk into a still active crater and survey atshort range the central vent of an ancient cone ;

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. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . rater thatis gradually widening itself by means of amighty lateral blast of ash-laden steam ; butthough fast sapping the parent crater of itsenergy, it brings neither lava nor scoriae to theformation of a cone. In consequence of these varied processes theJapanese volcanoes present a remarkable varietyof formations. Normality of structure is theexception. Hardly two are alike in shape orarrangement. It is a new experience to be ableto walk into a still active crater and survey atshort range the central vent of an ancient cone ;but this the breaching explosions already men-tioned have rendered possible in several be able to view from a sharp summit-peakthe daily life of a volcano as pursued withvigour in a big lateral crater is another experi-ence which no one who has been through it islikely to forget. The irregularity of Shirane-sans build has given us the remarkable spectacleof three lakes in a line along the top of a moun-tain, each in its own crater, surrounded by grey 146.

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