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There are also diminutive volcanoes, consisting of small conical hills, from which nothing seems to be emitted but various sorts of gas. These are called air volcanoes. Such are those of Turbaco in South America, discovered by Baron Humboldt, who has left us a picture of them, of which you here have a copy.
Mud and Air Volcanoes Luss Macaluba Taman Korabetoff New Island in the Sea of Azof Jokmali Fires of Baku Mud Volcano in Flank of Etna Air Volcanoes of Turbaco, Cartagena, and Galera- Zamba. The curious mud volcano in the Island of Java, described in the preceding chapter, although presenting some peculiar features, is not the only one of the kind in the world.
And in forcing their way to the surface, is it not natural that the liquid asphalt and slimy water should be drawn up and expelled? They point out the fact, that wherever such volcanoes exist, asphalt or petroleum is found hard by. The mud volcanoes of Turbaco, in New Granada, famous from Humboldt's description of them, lie in an asphaltic country.
A very similar occurrence took place in 1827, near Baku, in the Caspian sea. This began with a flaming display and the ejection of great fragments of rock. An eruption of mud succeeded. A set of small volcanoes discovered by Humboldt in Turbaco, in South America, confined their emissions almost wholly to gases, chiefly nitrogen.
I was assured that in the months of March and June the eruptions are often attended with violent explosions, smoke, and flames. The small cones situated at the south-western extremity of the island, between Point Icacos and the Rio Erin, appear to have some analogy with the volcanoes of air and mud which I met with at Turbaco in the kingdom of New Grenada.
But the time had arrived, the kind hearted monk was obliged to retire. The signal was given, the musketry rattled, and they were as clods of the valley "Truly," quoth old Splinter, "a man does sometimes become a horse by being born in a stable." Some time after this we were allowed to go to the village of Turbaco, a few miles distant from the city, for change of air.
The culminant points, called El Picacho and Horqueta, are near the western border of the group; they are entirely separated from the peak of San Lorenzo, also covered with eternal snow, but only four leagues distant from the port of Santa Marta, towards the south-east. I saw this latter peak from the heights that surrounded the village of Turbaco, south of Carthagena.
But whence come, either in Trinidad or at Turbaco, the sea-salts and the iodine? Certainly not from the sea itself, which is distant, in the case of the Trinidad Salses, from two to seventeen miles. It must exist already in the strata below.
This he ordered away with all the coolness in the world, saying, "It was only one of his people who had died that morning of yellow fever." "Comfortable country this," quoth Splinter, "and a pleasant morning we have had of it, Tom!" III. The Piccaroon From the Spanish headquarters at Torrecilla we were allowed to go to the village of Turbaco, a few miles distant from the city for change of air.
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