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THE Times of Tuesday contains a long letter from its Japan Correspondent describing the scene of the recent volcanic explosion in the Bandai-san region in Northern Japan. This is the first account by a foreign eye-witness that has reached the outside world. The writer appears to have started immediately from Tokio for the scene of the disaster, where he spent four days going carefully over the ground, examining the phenomena connected with the outburst, and hearing the stories of the survivors. The communication which is the result of these investigations, and which was evidently written while the powerful impression left by the scene of awful desolation was still fresh in the writer's mind, is probably one of the most graphic and detailed accounts of the immediate results of a stupendous volcanic explosion that has ever been published. Bandai-san is a mountain about 5800 feet high, and has shown no sign of activity for about eleven hundred years. On its north-eastern flank was a subordinate peak known as Little Bandai-san, which rose directly above a group of three solfataras.
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The Japanese Volcanic Eruption . Nature 38, 466–467 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038466a0
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