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Identifier: africaitsinhabit02recl (find matches)
Title: Africa and its inhabitants
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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» « TOPOGEAPHY OF THE AZOEES. 37 > Tliermal springs and vapour jets arc nimicrous in otlier parts of the island, ■\\-liere they are disposed in a line running from north-west to south-east, that is,in the same direction as the axis of the archipelago itself. San-Miguel alsoabounds most in lakes, foimerly craters which vomited burning scoriir, and arenow filled ^vith rain water. One of these occupies an oval depression immediatelyto the west of the Yal das Furnas, while a neighboiu-ing basin, 3 miles round, witha depth of over 100 feet, was completely filled with ashes during the eruption of•15G3, and is now known as the Larjoa Sccca, or Dry Lake. Six miles fartheron is the lagoon Bo Congro, filling a deep crater, with steep walls rising 100 feetabove the water. Beyond it is the alpine Lnrjoa do Fogo, or Fiery Lake, whichhas replaced a burning crater opened in 1563. On this occasion the Volcao, or Volcano, a loity mountain so called in a pre-eminent sense, disappearedaltogethe

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