Show TZ chatra A to bai what it saw w thoro not I 1 long ong afterwards we stood on a is level I 1 I 1 and the boiling vapor was seen teething ir up froin from a great 3 awning pit at our toot foot I 1 behold cried uan with wit h a salute statute bareheaded to the mountain and I 1 realized that I 1 was 10 feet above the ca a andin and in ai as convenient a R situation for a sensational ending a as a amen man may find anywhere in the world mom responded to Se sebastian bastians civill ties with bellow and ao an out throw ot of ashes and rock rocks that put roo me la in much touch doubt at 0 my ability to live through it abo stench of too was villainous and though I 1 adopted sebattian plan of binding a handkerchief over my mouth and no noo tails it was all I 1 could do to draw one satisfactory breath in ten add to thi this that the ground upon which wo tood stood was competed composed of burn tug 1 abes and hot mud and it will be apparent that summit Is not altogether fit for the daintily shod tourist tou ritt who climb vesuvius by the funicolare colare nor an easy spot for the in du dulc leance enco of poetical rhapsodies borne some say ay the crater of atna Is two miles round other others aro are maU shod with half balf the estimate tho the truth Is that both reckonings nay liay bo be at u one time abo crater ie is two miles la in circumference cumfer cum ference at other time times more or r len le e n the volcano is 0 so o terribly active that it at 6 L aai aal rc hal itself jho I 1 he outcast of ashe ashes one wee w ace most of at which fall back into the crater obliquely so 0 o as to form an in dined bank may bo be so 0 o prodigious that the critter itself seems curtailed of it third ot at its pr rea area but perhaps on tho eight day that part of the floor foor to speak loosely of the erder er der which haj has to support this growing weight of material suddenly give gives way and not only all the newly formed boundaries boun darleN but part of at tho the original environing rini rim of tho the crater fall fail in and eo so tho the circuit of the crater Is enlarged this process is always going on with greater or lem 1 rapidity and the tat that it occurs so constantly makes the tra velore measurements of so little permanent that ho he may generally bo be counseled to spare himself all trouble in the matter chambers journal |