Hittell's Hand-Book of Pacific Coast Travel
Hittell's Hand-Book of Pacific Coast Travel
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147 west from Volcano Station, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, a station not marked on the ordinary time-tables. These mud vol- canoes, called also fumaroles or ssdses, are vents through which steam and gas escape through what seems to be a pond of thick, hot mud. A vent having been formed, the mud gradually rises until it forms a cone not more than 8 feet high and 8 feet wide at the base, though the sizes and shapes are very irregular, and, after a time the supply of gas gives out, the activ...ity of that vent ceases, the mud sinks down to the common level, and a hard crust, locking like solid ground, forms over it ; while the hard level crust in another place breaks and a little cone rises. Thus the site of the steaming mud, covering several square miles in area, is continually changing. It is dangerous to approach these vents as the crust . may give way under a man's weight and let him down into the mud which has a temperature higher than that of boiling water.
H. G. Hanks, State Mineralogist, while making a scientific exami- nation of them, was badly burned on one foot in January, 1881, while examining one of these vents, and had a narrow escape with his life.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
147 west from Volcano Station, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, a station not marked on the ordinary time-tables. These mud vol- canoes, called also fumaroles or ssdses, are vents through which steam and gas escape through what seems to be a pond of thick, hot mud. A vent having been formed, the mud gradually rises until it forms a cone not more than 8 feet high and 8 feet wide at the base, though the sizes and shapes are very irregular, and, after a time the supply of gas gives out, the activ...ity of that vent ceases, the mud sinks down to the common level, and a hard crust, locking like solid ground, forms over it ; while the hard level crust in another place breaks and a little cone rises. Thus the site of the steaming mud, covering several square miles in area, is continually changing. It is dangerous to approach these vents as the crust . may give way under a man's weight and let him down into the mud which has a temperature higher than that of boiling water.
H. G. Hanks, State Mineralogist, while making a scientific exami- nation of them, was badly burned on one foot in January, 1881, while examining one of these vents, and had a narrow escape with his life.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by John Shertzer Hittell to read onlineMoreLess
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