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Title: San Francisco's horror of earthquake and fire ... to which is added graphic accounts of the eruptions of Vesuvius and many other volcanoes, explaining the causes of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, comp. from stories told by eye witnesses of these frightful scenes
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, James Russel. (from old catalog)
Subjects: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Volcanoes. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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water convertedinto steam. The remarkable fiict that all volcanoes are arranged in a kindof line along the coasts of the sea, or of inland lacustrine basins,is one of the gTeat points which testify in favor of this opinion asto the infiltration of water, and give to it a high degree of proba-bility*. The Pacific, which is the principal reser^-oir of the waterof our earth, is circled round b^- a series of volcanic mountains,some ranged in chains, and others very distant from one another,but still maintaining an evident mutual connection, constitutinga circle of fire, the total development of which is about 22,000miles in length. 320 MITLAL DEPENDENCE OF ALL TERRESTRL\L PHENOMENA. This ring of volcanoes does not exactly coincide with thesemicircle formed by the coasts of Australia, the Sunda Islands,the Asiatic continent, and the western coasts of the New World.Like a crater described within some ancient and more extensiveoutlet of eruption, the great circle of igneous mountains extends
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PICTURESQUE VIEW OF L.\KE TAUPO AND VOLCANIC MOI^NTAINS. its immense curve in a westward direction across the waves of thePacific, from New Zealand to the peninsula of Alaska; on the east,it is based on the coast of America, rising in the south so as toform some of the loftiest summits of the Andes. The still smoking volcanoes of New Zealand, Tongariro andtlie cone of Whakari, on White Island, are, in the midst of thesouthern waters of the Pacific properly so called, tlie first evidence MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF ALL TERRESTRIAL PHENOMENA. 821 of volcanic activity. On the north, a considerable space extendsin which no volcanoes have yet been observed. The gronp of theFeejee Islands, at which the volcanic ring recommences, presentsa large nnmber of former craters which still manifest the internalaction of the lava by the abundance of thermal springs. At thispoint, a branch crossing the South Sea in an oblique directionfrom the basaltic islands of Juan Fernandez as far as the activevolcanoes

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