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LONDON'S CITIZENS AND A STRONG NAVY,

·DANGERS OF A DESCENT.

Although the danger of à decant into Vesuvius is very considerabia, the dish. aunty has been over-emphasized. Hund reds of, Alpinista each suasco take much An important requisition, signed by groasar risks Without thinking very much fitury 1,000 at the loading bankus, marabout thom. It is true there are three nuts, and other representative citizens, almost perpendiculat drops, suparated by was recently prosuited to Lis Lord Lodges spaning outwards and downwards, ayor, it is 'Alanson House. It was but the bio is searoly more than

Jult, and with roupa there is little dith bwangerang, moon,

دام

We, "The undersigned citizens of Lon-cuty to ally one with nerve who doca mos sulker from diznesa, Lower down ilón, request that your burdship wit cause

un tío Via Manadrá; one desconds în a kio mbu wa juu walikata tó be granica, wi un curry duto, luta puude Queeling,ddens" covered slope, inemed

at an angle of about 40 degrees. T stor vlug it is super you will preside,

ads to the dour of the crater, 1,000 kur the purpose of usadicting us alujeniy's Governbeunt of the support of the cigaw, wine is Large and in placus quite

ت انا والماعة الا الله سلول شله الشلف مدت الات المالية اليه الة المنال سلالة منانا یا بات با قلنا tar igi

of the Aamurity for ensuring tuu supro macy the Ausy and, the protection u La torcikke manie

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But, uz is lcd with large stones or powders winen have taken from the Was above. The inside of the ed, tum 200t, deep opening in the Muffet skater door at the bottom of which is thu Dumfries, new mouth, in steep.

The greatest danger of a descent into calvilla is kint of Avalanchoe and Ial gbar.

Wie Wo were on the crater

va ache, caused by the caving - of the crater's zim abovey-fail across mau Via Mustaqra over which we had

Pikalni,

Koshen, Banjolini,

Mallard,

Lord Rothsetuid, Lord Aldenham, Lord boutewurk, Lord tebe, Lute Withe Hamilton, J.P., Sir Edward Beauchamp,

Amber, 31.P., Sir Edward Horden, Sir Jeremist gasoçu, and had anyone been on

Wincanton, ... Colman, pit Joan Luscombe (chema:)

uw spot he might have been killed out- Rotin Hood....................... o Aluyd's), the Hou. Liebert Gught or carried injured over into the Albanian Chief...

Janet down into the main furnace-Buttercup, Checkmate, City of London Conservative ພ.

st the beguiding of the descent, there- Unanias Association), Mr. J. Harbert

Sa Halo-

inton, Mr. . Coelho, Bonsor, Me, we upset and sent bounding down-Chinn Aster...

Chai CAPITAL AND Ruxarı ́......G. $7.20%,100

wards everything along the path liky Matchless Dublin, (1)... Equal... £1,480,00 Faithul diegg (chairman of the Londer.

Goldfinch Dahlia, (2)... come down alterwards on our heads, wachrihanish, EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANK.umber of Commerce), Mr. C. W.

Gordon president of the Chainber of minimizing the danger from this Turberry....

The inside of the crater, how-Woodcock... CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the Shipping) Dr. Walter Leaf, and Mr. asual terms.

ever, is so little wolid that even changing Ignorace, position : the reps started a cascade Bliss, -4 aylta and '' debris.'''

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Spun subacqhently by "a "Dally. Tde- graph" representative, the Lord Mayor, sir Vansitturt Bowater, said his w giving the requisition is most earnest Consideration, and would Enounce his

reision on the mutter

ble.

uroo.

The second danger is from aspbyria- ML So Jong as there is little wind the

in coimu of sicke from the new Glorioso,............. opmey and rises intact through the Turquise,

mouth, bung very hot, forms its own Triumphoso,

INSIDE-YESUVIUS.

basin of still, cool air inside the crater. Fluke..

a morning we descended this smoke Brympton, Tune in sharply datined: contours to

Aint severa buadred feet above the LangraNA,

Lessons From a Dascant of the Crater.cano, when it spread out like a gigan- East Point..

vive maskaroon This proved a

Fyn. advantage to us, for the music, of Cronity, breda of smoke, reflected the sun Mearns.

Prospect of Eruption.

Vesuvius is undoubtedly getting readygst into the crater, increasing consider The Güller, for outber eruption, writes Mr. Freathy this possibility of getting photo Freddy cold and derick Brodingban in The Times.raphs, low the third precipico, at Arun Ba Last July the main conduit, which was depth of about 500ft., the north wind,

mrret Wincombe, obstructed as a result of the paroxysm which had been blowing Stfully for five

Cariz Bruse, of 1906, when over 200 persons were days, again asserted itseif, and the smoka Dark Ronald.. trified, suddenly opened when the floor suma catened over and enveloped us. Minghier of the crater eaved in. Belore July the Being prepared for this emergency, wo Pahang Chief volcano vas in olfataric condition covered our mouths and roses with cloth, Balkan Chief. now denso volumes of smoke aro belch. and by remaining stil prevented the Donin ing with ever-increasing activity from tiis new mouth, which is about 501% in diameter.

KEYMER & Co, 3 Whitefriars Et, | already taking place thero, and that the encounters on the south wall 800ft. or/blia,

PARIS AND EUROPE, MATZNOE Fax

AGENTS.

hydrochloric acid and sulphur fumes Squirrel,.

zum choking wa. After remaining 20 lagi LONDON -F. Aan £18 9 Olemez's Lane, Lombard Street z... B. Browz

minutes in this dense cloud I induced Aldwych, Ole Hop. One interesting result of my recentio two Italians to descend with me Gunde Hop, & Co., Lód., 163 Queen's Road, Viciomo St. CLARKE, SOx & PLATE, 35 Ora descent 1,2001t. into the crater to the

Further, on the theory that the lower Pitonthe, church St., B.C. G. STREZI & Co., Lip of this new mouth, an expedition lown the hotter the smoke and ecose-Arravand, 30 Cornhill. GOBUCH & Gorun, 15 bindertaken on behalf of the British and quently the less diffusion. Bride

This idea amo, ****** E.C. ROBERT Watson, IF(

Colorini Kinematograph Company, was proved correct,

Brown Boy, Feet Street, O. MITCHELL & OD., S

Mad Eve the discovery that minor explosions are Hill, Holborn Vindust, 2.0. D. J.

In going down the Via Maladra one Monarch Dahlin. Dahlin, 300. below the crater's rim several primary fumaroles which are solfataric. The Cat......

Innovation Dablia, These should not be confused with the The Mouse.. secondary fumarches found higher up Mystery..... both inside and outside the crater, partly Rosario,. due to the porcolation of moisture which, Pegasas, owing to the heat, returns in the formuar,

Tango. of steam."

Valcalini, outed with the volcano itself, out of Flotilla,.....

The primary famarples are rente con. Pheasant,

which gasos issue quietly and almost in Candy Kid, visibly at temperatures above the melt- Sicka,

Dandy Bay. ing point of lead. In some of these are Fishball, grottes encrusted with a white substance, probably alkaline chlorides. The group low down on the Vis Maladra, however, send out thick yellow sulphurous gases in which are found traces of arsenic. I brought back from those lower depths some curious yellow substance resembling

& Co., 18 Rue de la Etangs, Pardu Paris

10. MATHER & Chowraza, Ltd., 10. activity of the volcano is increasing faster 11, 13 New Bridge St., ..

than the observatory officials had con SCOTLAND -Faro. L. SIMONS, 8 Norjectured. Professor Alessandro Maliades,

St. David Street, Edinburgh.

of the Reale Osservatorio Vesuviano, in speaking of future possibilities, told me that he expected a flow of lava inside the crater by next summer, and the con- struction of a sinal cons over the present sport. Frem the fact, however, that aperture, followed by the emission of

on December 21 we found fresh lava outside this new mouth it may be deduced that the interior lava is rising rapidly, and at present is not very for from the crater floor.

NEW YORK-T. E Browse, La., Elisa Hall, Wen and street. Now York City.

The Chinese Evangelist Orhoz, 52 Wix 2nd Street, SAN FRANCISCO and American Forts generally-Brax & ISLACE, San From

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AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, AND NEW ZEALAND:-Gordon & Goton, Mes bourne and Sydney

In theory this is what is going to linppen. As minor explosions become more frequent, lava will be thrown out

JEYLON:-W. M. SMITH & Co., TR of the mouth, and in solidifying will

· Aromhedantes Co., Columbe.

SINGAPORE, STRAITS,

& WALA, La., Singapore.

take the form of growing cone inside mila in diameter. Out of the sono wil the present crater, which is over half a salt with vennilion encrustations, which be projected secrri and more lava, and PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 8 Was the lava flow continues unobstructed-

Box & Co., Manilo,

otherwise there will be an explosion ONA, FACELL & Co., Foocho this code will not only fill the crater now BacoEET & Co., Shanghai, KELLY &1,2001 doep, but possibly may continue WALAH, LTD. Yokohama, KELLY. § WALSH, Lan.

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has not yet been analysed, and some stalagmitcs probably of sulphurous origin. At the very bottom of the crater, 1,212ft. down, the spectacle is extra ordinary. The whole mouth is encrusted with white substanes, probably the growing until it reaches a height of same as is found in the fumrole grottos, 1,000ft. above it.. When the lateral and oct of this abyss, the depth of which pressure of this molien mass exceeds the Professor Mercalli estimates at over two structural resistance of the cone, the ballo, there rush out with a hollow row? cone will begin caving outwards and fall dense douds of incandescent moka to pieces. The destruction of the one will which, during the 20 minutes we re be accompanied by explosions and flows mained at this extreme depth, fashed of leva in directions which show the several colours, the greenish tinta sug losst résistance. There is another possi gesting copper fumes. It was hers we bility. If the present mountain is struc. found the fresh lava. The volcanio dust furaily weak, the lava, instead of rising or sah we brought back from the extrome

pressuca find its way out through the the taste.

HANDOW REGUE (FORT AREE) Typhoon Map within the cone may through lateral edge of this mouth is distinctly anty to

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TUHE ALEXANDRA CAFE Cannot be Boston; if Equalled, For. Brandt

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side of the present cons or even 'break through to the open at a considerable

distance from the existing crater.

Now that this dessert info Vesuvius

DON'T PODGE.

with heavy apparatus has been pryd Tabard to allow a cough to hang on possible it is extremely probable that and map yone vitalibyahem. Chamber, further expeditions will follow. I bein's Cough Remedy will cure you.. Heve an astempf will shortly be made to descend with heavy scicolific inata mente, not only electric pyrometers for measuring temperatures, but carboys for matching goos

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