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New York, Dec. 20.
Mr. Frank A. Perret, of the geographical laboratory ' staff of Carnegie Institute, predicted today, upon his arrival from the islands, that the next news of a big volcanic eruption is likely to come any day from the volcano Vuleano, in the Lipau Islands, in the south Mediterranean.
Casualties, however, promise to be nil, as Vulecano has only one inhabitant—a man named Conte, who owns the voleano and works it for boracic acid. Conte, Mr. Perret said, keeps a rowboat handy to take flight at the first sign of eruption.
Mr. Perret based his prediction of an early eruption on the fact that the goa is boiling about the base of the volcano island, and that the temperature within the crater has reached 1,000 degrees, Fabrenthe great crater of Vesuvius leit by the eruption of 1906 is rapidly filling with lava, Mr. Perret said, being already half full. It probably will be 15 years, he said, before Vesuvius works itself up to another state of eruption. Mount Etna is extremely quiet, the only activity being a slight flow in the northeast crater.
Mr. Perret has spent 18 years in studying the volcanoes "of the Lipau f{slands. He returned for conferences with his colleagues of Carnegie Institute at Washington.—Reuter.
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