“ A Japanese Volcano - The active volcano, Asamayama, appears to be attracting particular attention just now in Japan, probably because it is the loftiest mountain in the country which is in a constant state of activity, and also because it is the nearest to the capital, and is situated in a district long famous for its health resorts. A few weeks since we referred to an anonymous account of the crater, published in the Japan Weekly Mail, but a much more careful sketch of it is given by the Japan correspondent of the Times in a letter published recently in that journal. ”

“ A German explorer set down the diameter at eleven hundred yards, and an English mathematical professor put it at only two hundred yards, "divergencies that will illustrate the mental confusion to which some men are liable when in the presence of dread natural phenomena." ”