The following are the more important of the active volcanoes in the regions noticed in the above outline :— Ararat, Great, 17,250 feet, borders of Armenia. Ararat, Lesser.
Elburz, in the Caucasus, 18,000 feet.
Tian Shan range has Peschan, au active volcano, also Ho-te-keou, near Turfan, 420 miles east of Peschan. In the Kemp district, province of Kham, in 1820, a village was destroyed by the earth open ing. At Kham, N.E. of Lhassa, in 1845, a great earthquake ; about 3000 people were killed and a goomba destroyed by the earth opening.
./Egean Archipelago.—Santorini crater with the Great and Little Kaimeni Islands, formed 1573 and 1707.
Asia Minor.—Hassan Dagh, elevation 8000 feet.
Red Sea, Jabl Tier.—Edd Island, lat. 13' 57' N., in eruption 7th and 8th blay 1861 ; "Medina, volcano in eruption 1254 and 1276 ; Zebs.yer Islands, 6th to 14th August 1846, a violent eruption.
Aden, crater extinct.
Bourbon.—Pitou volcano.
Comoro Islands have an active volcano. Nerbadda.—Dumoh pahar, 27th May 1846, an earth quake.
Kattyawar, off Porbanclar, October 1849, a submarine volcano poured forth poisonous gas, manifest for 30 or 40 miles out at sea ; myriads of fish poisoned by it were floating on the surface of the ocean.
Cutch.—Bhooj earthquake, 16th to 20th June 1819, and on latter date the Denodour volcano burst out.
Hinglaj, along the seaboard of Lus, W. of Kurachee, several mud volcanoes, called Chandra Kup, con stantly active.
Cochin, off the coast, the island of Vaypi rose from out of the sea A.D. 1341.
Pondicherry, off the coast, in lat. 11° 55' N. In July 1757, fires were seen to break out on the surface of the sea, 3 or 4 leagues from the shore, throwing up stones and pumice.
Arakam—Cheduba Island, lat. 18° 50' N., and long. 90° 40' E. ; its volcanoes emit hot water, mud, and stones, with flames. Regwan Island, raised about 1757? or 1760. On 29th July 1843, a small island appeared, and in a month again sank.
Khyouk Pilo° a small volcano constantly active. On tbo 6tlii January 1845, volumes of flames burst from tho sea.
Chittagong.-April 18, 1672, GO square nines of lowland were permanently submerged ; the mountain Ces lung-toom disappeared, and another sank so that only its summits were visible.
Bay of Bengal, east coast from Akyab to Cape Negrais is rising.
Burma.-At Mambo° village, nearly opposite Magh-We, on the Irawadi, and at Grobagan, are mud volcanoes 15 feet high.
Barren Island, in lat. 12° 16', long. 93° 54', 1800? feet high, constantly active.
.Narcondam Island, in lat. 13° 22' N. ; its cone is 800 feet high.
Sumatra has four active volcanoes.
Priamang is 20 miles inland from Banco°len. Gunong Dempo, 12,000 feet high, constantly emita vapour.
Simo, one of the Batu group, on the W. coast of Smnatra.
Java, according to Dr. Junghulm, has 45 volcanic cones, of which 28 aro in activity, in continual or occa sional eruption. See Java.
Gunong Guntur, in eruption in 1800, poured out torrents of white acid and sulphuroua mud. Mount Slamak peak, 11,330 feot.
Ungarung peak, 5000 feet.
Telaga Bodas, old crater.
Tengger Mountains, old volcano, 8700 (7500 ?) feet above the sea. It has four cones of elevation, all of them in eruption ; Bromo in 1866. Papandayang., 7034 feet high, in S. of Java, lat.
8° N., m eruption in 1772.
Galung-gong, a few nines N.E. of Papanclayang, in eruption fith July 1822.
Gunong Raon, 10,180 feet high.
DIerapi and Kloet, in eruption 1864, and Blerapi 15th April 1872 ; many perished. Ashes fell at Solo for three days. The cone of 9000 feet was redqced to 5000 feet.
Lombok, volcano 7500 feet high.
Bali, volcano in eruption 1803.
Sumbawa.-Timboro, eruption 5th April 1815 ; 12,000 people destroyed ; sounds beard 1000 rniles off, and Java obscured.
Sarawak.-Gunong Api.
Gilolo.-Volcano in 1673 threw up much pumice. Celebes.-Peninsula of Mucado has six volcanoes. Amboyna, wholly volcanic ; fearful eruption in 1694, another in 1820, and now emits sulphurous vapours and kot mud.
Moluccas.-Sorea Island, in 1693, entirely desolated by an eruption.
Ternate, wholly a volcano, 5755 feet high, in eruption in 1608, 163.5, 1653, 1673, 26th February 1838, 25th March 1839, 2d February 1840. In 1673 ashes fell Amboyna. In 1840 nearly every house was destroyed.