The report of the expedition sent out to explore the region devastated by the eruption of Mount Katmai in Alaska is likely to prove of immense service to science. It is at any rate replete with interest and throws considerable light on the causes and the effect of the mightesi volcanic outbreak in the history of mankind. The eruptions that destroyed Pompeii and St. Pierre, and the cataclysm at Krakatoa have been completely dwarfed by the Alsaka disaster in which six square miles of mountain range were literally blown away to a depth of 3,000 feet.
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