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Photographer: Karen Key
Taken: September 1, 2007
Caption: A Visit to The Volcano
Additional Description: ... I forgot to say that the noise made by the bubbling lava is not great, heard as we heard it from our lofty perch. It makes three distinct sounds - a rushing; a hissing, and a coughing or puffing sound, and if you stand on the brink and close your eyes, it is no trick at all to imagine that you are sweeping down a river on a large low-pressure steamer and that you hear the hissing of the steam about her boilers ...

The smell of sulfur is strong, but not unpleasant to a sinner.
Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1866
Submitted: October 15, 2007, by Karen Key of Sacramento, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p8426
File Size: 0.541 Megabytes

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