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Show Cotopaxi, in 1833, threw its fiery rockets 3,000 feet above its crater, while in 17?1, the blazing ?, struggling for an outlet, roared so that its awful voice was heard at a distance of more than 600 miles. In 1797 the crater of Tungurahua, one of the great peaks of the Andes, flung out torrents of mud, which dammed up the rivers, opened new lakes, and in valleys 1,000 feet wide, made deposits ?[?00]feet deep. The stream from Vesuvius, which in ?[1837, 1537], passed through Torre del Greco, contained 51,000 cubic feet of solid matter, and in 1706, when Torre del Greco was destroyed a second time, the mass of lava amounted to 43,000,000 cubic feet. In 1760, ?[Etna] poured forth a flood which covered ?[8 ½, 81] square miles of surface and measured nearly 1,000,000,000 cubic feet. On this occasion the sand and ?[scoria] formed the Monte Roslus, near Nicholas's cone of two miles in circumference and 4,000 feet high. The stream thrown out by ?[Etna] in ?[1510] was in motion at the rate of a yard a day for nine months after the eruption, and it is on record that the lava of the same mountain, after a terrible eruption, was not thoroughly cool and ?[coagulated] for ten years after the event. In the eruption of Vesuvius, A.D. 79, the scoria and ashes vomited forth far exceeded the entire bulk of the mountain, while in 1000, Etna disgorged twenty times its own mass. Vesuvius has sent its ashes as far as Constantinople, Syria, and Egypt. It hurled stones eight pounds in weight to Pompeii, a distance of six miles, while similar masses were ?[towered, lowered, thrown] up 2,000 feet above the summit. Cotopaxi has projected a block of 100 cubic yards in volume a distance of nine miles; and Sumbawa in 1815, during the most terrible eruption on record, sent its ashes as far as Java, a distance of three hundred miles.--Exchange |