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Show VOLCANOES IN ALASKA. More Than Two Score of Them He Hn'ii Active In the l'renent Onturj. IIcc.'iUlv I read au account of a bona Cde advert : emeu t in a ciinditiavtan pjipcrof sniiiei'-iloiis vok-a Tines for sale for i-Jimit for.r hundred dollars, says a j writer in the Christian Advocate. I 'l iuy aro located in Iceland. Alaska i mi-iit L'lnt the market in this r-. the tic I artieie if it were to put all its ?.t'H.'ic on Mile. Tlit mnnliiT which have been aetn e wiUiin urn hundred years U varum va-rum ly estimated by tlie atiliiori I ics I have consulted as all tlie way from forty -live to sixty-one. More than twelve have been active within twenty twen-ty years and live at least within four years. Amon, the must ; .larLable is lloj'orlnf. one hundred miles west of L'nukisUa. This, about six hundred feet hi;rh. together with the part of the L-dand from which it rises, has come up out of the sea within a few years, and constantly sends out steam and smoke. MaLushin, on L'nalasku, Llioiiyh snow-covered, pours out im-iiiense im-iiiense volumes of steam and milk-white milk-white smoke, visible on a clear day nearly sixty miles at sea. Akutan act?, lilce a t-'eyscr, pulling aL intervals of a tew seconds. Shishaldiu. on C'unimtik island, a perfect cone S,T5o feet above the sea, snow-eovere.l, but washed by the ocean at its base, striped down its sidth; with ashes and condensed smoke, was still .smoking-. 1 1 has no foot hills,' and its precipitous precipi-tous slopes fall into tlie great Pacitic ocean on the south and lieriny sea on the north. Klliott says: "It is wholly safe to say that Shishaldin is the niont beautiful peak" of vast altitude upon the North American continent." rVvlof, on the Alaska peninsula, sends out from the side huye clouds of pitch-black pitch-black smoke hot enouyh to melt two feet of snowfall in a few minutes. It pairs at intervals like a locomotive. Ilnainna, on the shore of Conk'-s inlet :.s ri,W'U feet hiyh, and constantly c-nds out ashes and smoke of brimstone. brim-stone. In Mount St. Augustine, 150 miles north of h'adiak island, was active, and, according1 to the oftieial report re-port of (Jov. Knapp, "covered the decks of ships hundreds of miles at sea with ashes." In lti74Capt. Lennan was sent to the islands of the Pour Mountains, west of L'mnak, to explore a cave said to contain mummies (of which lie brought seventeen bodies, now in different museums). While on this trip he discovered ou Kapramtl island a volcanic .mountain of low altitude, from which issued jets of sulphurous steam, smoke and noxious gases of such horrible stench as t- compel him to stand off from shore. Mount St. lillias sent out smoke and vapor in 18IJlJ, and in 1S47, when "thy earthquake occurred which shook the whole Sitka region, tin me and ashes came from its summit." |