Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — Volcanoes of Central America. [ARTICLE]

Volcanoes of Central America.

Of the ninety active volcanoes in Central America, writes Fannie B. Ward, I li-ive seen thirty-fiye and never saw any signs of lava; on the contrary, pumicestone is imported with painters’ supplies. Black ashes are emitted from the volcanoes; it is fired upward three to ten miles high and distributed by the trade winds over the country. It is a rich fertilizer. Besides her picture in colors, nature does some work in black and white. It is on the Pacific shore on the northwest of Nicaragua. The beach is about 250 feet wide, and is covered with black volcanic ashes, fine as sand. The great white billows of the Pacific were rolling in, the intense light of the midday sun showed the contrast to its utmost limit between the black volcanic ashes and the white billows. These volcanic ashes cover the ocean bed fai out, as I have been told by those who have taken soundings along the coast. This, picture is twenty miles long, extending to within a few miles north of Corinto.— [Boston Transcript.