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This mud-volcano is known to have been in action for fifteen centuries. Very recently a small mud-volcano has been formed on the flanks of Mount Etna. It began with the throwing up of jets of boiling water, mixed with petroleum and mud, great quantities of gas bubbling up at the same time.
In several of the valleys of Iceland there are similar phenomena, the boiling water and mud being thrown up in jets to the height of fifteen feet and upwards, the mud accumulating around the orifices whence the jets arise. A mud-volcano named Korabetoff, in the Crimea, presents phenomena more akin to those of the igneous volcanoes of South America.
I speak, of course, only of Trinidad, because only Trinidad I have seen. But what I say I know intimately to be true. The parade over and a pleasant sight it was, and one not easily to be forgotten we were away to see the Salse, or 'mud-volcano, near Monkey Town, in the forest to the south-east.
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