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Show 0lttMJIs l MIMCO. Mexico nt iroient mjoyt tho ills Hon of having a volcano In n violent stato of imi Hon. H o rolnceof Colima Is tltua'ed on tho I'jcIRIc roat tldo of the republic. It Is onu of tho richest agikultural regions of Meilco. The city btarlng tho samo name la located at an altlludo of 1430 fut and contains IJ.OOU inhabltauts. It Is nloul sixty miles Inland from Ihu seaort t iwu of Msnzanlllo North of th,o city, and about twenty miles distant Is the great volcano of Colima. Hint Letii for two or three weeks In n very active state of erui II in. Ashtsbavo bem tarried n dbttneo of 4M miles bystroug winds. Tho llsuu-s which lsirt from tho crater Jltumlnatu tho cuntry for miles around. On Wednesday, the lOlli Inst., tho trup-tlun trup-tlun wiipirllcAilirly vlolsnt aud at coui4inled with several thoiks of oirthquake. A number of liouut In tho city of Colima wiro shattend. Kveu the sboiks wrro ft It so far dlttsnt at Acinic , mny mills further dowu tho coast. The govtrnor of tho irovlncoorderol tho residents of the townaadjoliilngtho volcano to abanlou thelrhomes and move further away. The volcano consists of two cones, named resectlvely tbo volcano of tniw, and tho tolcauo of fire, Tbo latter It causing tho intent nlirm It bat an altitude of II! 00) fiet Tbo llrtt dettrucllvr erullou of which there la any recur I took place In 1611. A great deal of roporty was ileslroytd at that time, Asl es au I scoriae uoru thrown out a for n dls tamoofottohundrid mitts Inilrcuui. finuce lu 1711 It aalu l.iltliwl forth huge volumes of lire nud dl I Imruon.e damage to tho surrounding country. Hlalcen years later ft new volcnm Lroku out almut ono hundred nnd sixty mllrt tost of Colima, which did groat damage a!o. In ISOd an earthquake occcrred lu tbeeo regions, w lilcli deitroy ed a large I art of tho city of otlan and caused "0i)J persons to loselbelrlliea. In 181S there wain dreadful iruptlon, by which consider able life and jroperly wire lost .Sollilug lery serious hss occurred slnto, until the resent outbreak, hlch iromlses to bu atttudod with much dauger. M- |