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Show FIRES THAT ARE SLEEPING Range of Eight Great Volcanoes Near Lake Albert Edward in Central Africa. It is not very generally known that Tight in the heart of Africa at the southern end of Lake Albert Edward is a great rauge of volcanoes. They are eight in number, and, though it Is true that, unlike Rukenzor, they carry no permanent sno--. the highest peak Is over fourteen thousand feet in height. These volcanoes are particularly particu-larly interesting on account of their comparative neweness. Running through the middle of Africa there is a trench many hundred miles long, in which lie the great lakes Albert Edward, Kivu and Tanganyika. Not very many thousands of years ago, the volcanoes, generally called Mfumblro, burst through the middle of this trench and made a dam across it, with the result that some of the water, which formerly flowed into Lake Albert Edward and so into the Vile, was cut off and a lake was termed behind the dam. As times went on the waters of the lake which is now called Kivu rose higher and higher, until, not being able to flow over the barrier of the volcanoes, they formed the Rusisi river, which runs the other way into Tanganyika, about 100 miles distant. Of the eight volcanoes only two show signs of activity ac-tivity at the present time, in the form of thin wisps of steam which may occasionally oc-casionally be seen; but a vast plain of lava, with a wide black stream curling curl-ing through its midst, showed where a formidable eruption had taken place only two or three years before our visit. There are hot springs scattered scat-tered here and there, and we felt slight shocks of earthquakes once or twice, so it is not safe to say that the Mfumblro volcanoes are extinct Wide World Magazine. |