Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — New Volcanic Isle Changes. [ARTICLE]

New Volcanic Isle Changes.

Readers will recall the discovery late July of a new and eteaming hot yoicanie Island to the vicinity of Unalaska by ths revenue cutter McCulloch, in command oi Lieut. B. H. Camden. Lieut. Camden now reports of bis second visit to the scene, three months later. The cloud of steam had vanished and one of the two peaks, named McCulloch, 395 feet high, had entirely disappeared, leaving the half of the other peak, known as Perry, “with its perpendicular wall standing in grim silence as a headstone at the grave of the departed peak.” The rugged outlines of the island had been softened by a padding of lava dust, while the sand spit which connected the two parts of the Island had attained the height of from 20 to 100 feet. At intervals while they looked on, masses of lava dust Jarred from crevices high up crashed downward to the beach/—.. ..