The various reports circulating early in September that as a result of the earthquake Mount Fuji had changed its shane are declared to be unfounded by an engineer of the Numadzu Meteorological Observatory, who has been up the mountain to investigate. He reports, however, that a layer of deep brown lava along the peaks and ridges of the mountain has changed its colour, that there are numerous clefts and fissures, and that on one' of the peaks is a new crater-like open-inside of which the tempera-
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