. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . View of Mount Pelee from the A Negro Boy Diving for a Penny. Barbados. i he Lchi>cr Antilles J4/ the keg have been turned by the hot sulphur blast ofthat day of terror into iron pyrites, iron sulphide, manyof them having assumed crystalline forms. Thechemical action which turned nails into crystals of ironsulphide was too great to be resisted by poor humanflesh and blood, which shriveled into ashes before can faintly imagine what must have been the agony ofthe moment. On the first day of A
. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . View of Mount Pelee from the A Negro Boy Diving for a Penny. Barbados. i he Lchi>cr Antilles J4/ the keg have been turned by the hot sulphur blast ofthat day of terror into iron pyrites, iron sulphide, manyof them having assumed crystalline forms. Thechemical action which turned nails into crystals of ironsulphide was too great to be resisted by poor humanflesh and blood, which shriveled into ashes before can faintly imagine what must have been the agony ofthe moment. On the first day of August in the year1887 I made the ascent of Asama-yama, one of thehuge volcanoes of Japan, rising over eight thousand feetabove the plains of the Kwanto. I was accompaniedby a small troop of faithful Japanese attendants. Thecolumn of steam and sulphur-smoke rising from thecrater was ascending in a jx^rpendicular column a milein height above the mountain-top, and then sj^readingout like a huge umbrella in the up|K^r air. The daywas still; not a breath of air was stirring. I undertookto measure the circumference of the crat
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