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VOLCANOES OF INDIA.
mainland. The centre peak attains an altitude of 1237, feet, and on
sailing round in certain aspects it presents the appearance of a stupendous
Gothic cathedral ; two peaks of 700 feet, close beside each other
have obtanied the very unpicturesque name of the Asses’ Ears, from
the appearance presented by them far out at sea : seven miles
beyond this, and seventeen from Aden, another fragment of a cone of
smaller size, but considerable beauty, rises up to the altitude of TOO
feet and projects about three miles into the sea, while halfway
betwixt this and the straits, Gibbel Kurruz or St. Antoney, apparently
a volcano, reaches an elevation of 1772 feet—Barren Peak and the
high range of Gibbel Arrar, or the Chimney Peaks, just opposite the
strait, being all set clown by the surveyors as hills of volcanic origin *
The range from this bends northward, and follows the line of the
Bed Sea shore.
From Aden to Babelmandeb, indeed the rocks along the Arabian
shore seem to be wholly volcanic for a distance of above 100 miles,
On the African shore a singular cove at the upper end of the Bay
of Tadjoura, called Joobul Khareb, seems the crater of an old volcano;
it is connected with the Bay of Tadjoura by two narrow channels the
•whole width across from coast to coast being about three quarters of a
mile, with a small island near the middle. One of the channels is forty
yards wide, with sixteen fathoms water, the other 250, with three fa
thoms. The cove inside is about thirteen miles in diameter, by six—
the western portion is volcanic. At its extremity is a basin, or crater,
300 yards in diameter, surrounded by precipitous volcanic cliffs through
which the sea makes its way to the water inside, the entrance is dry at
low water. Lava and scoriae abound everywhere around.f The wa
ters of the cove are said occasionally to be violently agitated ami dis
turbed without apparent cause, probably by the emission of gas from
Tim"®,' l* 843 . l< Dr I ArUtuUUe's Renorf’ * ee HaI [’ es - Accomv of Quicksilver (ourd nt.—BomUi
te^Vooiro,; fhe U cts, S ?. eP o 0 f r ‘ ^ m' n"T h V i^ ^ Li "'‘T
Dr., on specimens of lava fro m -m m fbav >s Trans v„l • account of, p 12 . Huist
in S i,LTE*
tion in tile character of the" t V r ,' se from . the Influent ' e of the winds, or vana-
Giraudon. water m the Red sea. Discover* of Fluor Spar in lava of, Ur
Adrn T ,!! e ,ri 10 le i 0f thiS info T r , mation ^ taken from the Charts and Survey Notices of 1836-41
Thev i Ji'!,,' H ,y V0ic,,,,0 1 1,av /, D, y s elf examined—the others 1 have mereW seen from sea
surveyors^ ZZZulX tZe"/Z'T'* ^ -'^eriug^e ability oft*
f Capt. Barker’s paper. Load. Koyal Geograph, Traos. 1848.