Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — PHILIPPINE VOLCANOES. [ARTICLE]

PHILIPPINE VOLCANOES.

Kayos Is the Most Famous, and the Teal Coates Next. The most famous Philippine volcano and one of the finest volcano cones in the world is that of May on. Its height is 8,970 feet, and the volcano is visible at a great distance. Since 1766 records have been kept of itß eruptions. In that year many plantations and villages were burled under a stream of lava which flowed down its eastern slope. About 1,200 lives were lost in the eruption of 1814, which buried the country around a part of tbe base of Mayon under tbe outpourings of lava and dust. A similar calamity in 1825 destroyed the lives of about 1,500 persona. In the nineteenth century there were a number of severe eruptions, including one In 1880-87 which continued about nine months. An eruption in 1897 killed 350 persons and destroyed much property. Twenty-two violent eruptions of this volcano are on record. Next to Mayon the Taal volcano is the most remarkable. It is on an island in the lake of Bombon, and,the island, built up by its outpourings, has an area of 220 square miles. The volcano is incessantly ejecting dust and vapor from its crater. Taal. as well as Mayon. has been the center of numerous destructive earthquakes, but no very great eruption has occurred since 1864, when four villages around the mountain were completely destroyed.— Bulletin of American Geographical Society.