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Title: Greatest wonders of the world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders Landscapes
Publisher: New York, The Christian Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he rose and silver of thedaybreak. . . . As late as the Fourteenth Century Fuji was constantlysmoking, and fire is spoken of with the eruptions, the lastof which took place in December, 1707, and continued fornearly forty days. The Ho-Yei-san, or hump in the southface, was probably then formed. In this, her. final out-break, Fuji covered Tokio itself, sixty miles away, with sixinches of ash, and sent rivers of lava far and wide. Sincethen she has slept, and only one little spot underneaththe Kwan-nom-Gatake, on the lip of the crater, wheresteam exhales, and the red pumice-cracks are hot, showsthat^the heart of this huge volcano yet glows, and that sheis capable of destroying again her own beauty and theforests and rich regions of fertility which clothe her kneesand feet. It is a circuit of 120 miles to go all round the base ofFuji-San. If you could cut a tunnel through her fromYoshiwara to Kawaguchi, it would be forty miles long.Generally speaking, the lower portion of the mountain is
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FUJI-SAN 93 cultivated to a height of 1,500 feet, and it is a whole prov-ince which thus climbs round her. From the border ofthe farms there begins a rough and wild, but flowery moor-land, which stretches round the hill to an elevation of 4,000feet, where there the thick forest-belt commences. Thisgirdles the volcano up to 7,000 feet on the Subashiri sideand 8,000 on the Murayama fall, but is lower to the east-ward. Above the forest extends a narrow zone of thicketand bush, chiefly dwarfed larch, juniper and a vaccinium;after which comes the bare, burnt, and terribly majestic peakitself, where the only living thing is a little yellow lichenwhich grows in the fissures of the lava blocks, for no eagleor hawk ventures so high, and the boldest or most bewil-dered butterfly will not be seen above the bushes half-waydown. The best—indeed, the only—time for the ascent of themountain is between July 15th and Septembei 5th. Dur-ing this brief season the snow will be melted from the cone,th

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