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I succeeded in reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet, and then gave out on account of a previous illness, from which I had not fully recovered, and was compelled to return to a ranch down on the "timber line." Here 1 awaited the return of the par ty, which was composed of Col. Gras tv of Virginia and Mr. Harry Stephens of Cleveland, who had accompanied me from home. The gigantic crater is about one mile in diameter and 4,500 feet deep, ami, almost incredible to believe, but nevertheless true, there is a settle ment consisting of forty sulphur mi ners in the bottom of this awful cavi ty, their only modi* of ingress and egress from this infernal region being by the means of a windlass, and 1,000 feet of rope, by which they are low ered down to a shelf in the side of the abyss, the rest of the journey down ward being performed on foot, over a a long and steep descent. The thoughts of Grastv and Stevens were now turned to a horrible gulf that vawued before them, for in it they must pass the night, which would fall in the course of two or three hours; for it was alike impossible to spend it on the mountain top or to return down t*i the "timber line.*' An Indian em ploye of the sulphur mine had prec«*d ed them up the volcan * l*eariiig their letter * f introduction to Senor Corcha do, the superintendent of the mine, who immediately repaired to the sum mit, where he met them half or three quarters of an hour after their arrival. Corchad », "the old Man of the Mountain,*' is a singular character. Born at Timacas, lie has always lived on the mountain, or in his present brimstone home, where his father lived and died before him. He has been in timately connected with Popocatapetl and everything associated with the great volcano f,ir over a half century. He now lives at the bottom of the cra ter, 4,500 feet below its rock rim. To this strange abode he welcomed Gras tv and Stevens with heartiness and re al hospitality. ENTERING THF. VOIXTaXO. Thev zigzagged down the bleared and blackened rocks about 200 feet, and came to a windlass called "El Malaeate." From this was suspended a cable about an inch and a half in di ameter and a thousand feet long. From this point they obtained a mag nificent view of the crater, whose walls rose in all directions in a frightful wildness and sublimity. They at once appreciated its enormous dimen sions. Nearly a ihile below them was the bottom, almost lost in the dark ness and distance. To illustrate the great depth, it would be no exagger ation to say that if you were to take Mount Vesuvius, which is 4,500 feet high, and turn it upside down and stick it into the crater, it would about fill it. This gulf presents one of the grandest sights on earth, and has a terrible fascination for the beholder. The most stolid arc greatly impressed, while the susceptible are completely overwhelmed by its awful sublimity. Grasty and Stevens peered over the ledge where stood the windlass, and saw far, far below them a level rock that formed the top of a long, steep declivity, at the foot of which was a black spot. This they were told was the miner's house. They were to de scend to the declivity by the rope, having accepted Corchado's invitation * I j ! j j I j ; t j j I to spend the night below. Corchado and Stevens went first. They were tied to the cable in such a manner that they sat side by side. For about the distance of 150 feet the ledge from which they made their wild leap projected out over the preci pice, and consequently they hung free and dangling in mid-air. It was only a minute or two, however, before they came to a place where the cliff bellied out further than the windlass rock, Mid they were compelled to kick against its strong front to keep clear of it. Immense clouds of sulphurous steam and gasses rolled skyward from beneath this projection. These nausc that trickled in little rivulets from the gashed and fin* marked walls of the j crater. Noxious vapors floattal through the air—all seemed a horrible ( nightmare. They reachnl the declivi-j ated St«* veil s, am 1 set him to vomi badly. The V wc re now out of sig it of till* pi*oj de a hove them. Stevens af terward sai« l he felt that he was go ing straight into the laws of hell. On every si de « f t lu n w; is a gigantic and ! hideous mi ll of cracked cliffs and blister«*« or; Igs. Beneath them were pools of liquid and burning sulphur ty in safety after a fearful journey of ten minutes, and untied themselves, j 1 he roj*e was then pu lh.nl up. ! the pûmes of AVKRXt s. j The Colonel proceed«*« 1 to tie him-q] soll «in. 1 iirough 8« »me mistake the,This r«»|*e that went round his hack slipped : down t«*o low. Ho dropped tromi«great j the crag, still weak from the suffering j !»♦* had experienced in the ascent. Kv- j erything went well until In* got t* » the | pîaee where the precipice bulges out.jduce Her»* ilisast<*r «»vert«*ok him. A « l«»u«l j hnn. ami : h,» faint«-«! away with yet 700 feet tojto «lescend. C«*r«hado ami Stevens saw; him let go id tli«* rope, thr«*w his arms j out grasping at the air, and fall back i « «.f gas-laden vapor envelope until ins iH*a«l was lower than his heels; then spin round ami round, * striking the sharp rocks in a fearful ! I manner. Stevms said it fairly made his blood run cnhl, ami he turned hisjing j head from the awful sight. Mean ! while Corchado had given tin* man at j the windlass a sign to lower taster, j and Grasty h apparently lifeless and I mutilated bmly s«»on reached the spot j where they stood. His face was se ; verely bruised, and his clothing bad ly torn, while the blood was trickling t - « j from his nose ami ears, but lie still breathed. After an hour's rubbing j and throwing of snow in bis face lie I came to, and the whole party, now augmented by the arrival of a num ber of peon miners from below, de scended the sloping side of the crater. Corchado and his Indians led the way, slowly followed by Grasty, who was supported by Stevens and a peon. After they had got about half way down the steep they experienced from the ice and stones great difficulty in traveling. The most annoying thing, however, was the constant danger they were in of ln?ing crushed by the huge chunks of ice and rock that wore continually rolling down. This debris is the matter that is loosened daily by the sun, whose warmth strikes off its icy fetters and suffers gravity to have its way. After two hours slippery descending they reached THE BOTTOM OF THE PIT about half after 4 in the afternoon of Thanksgiving day. It was now more than fourteen hours since they had left the ranch on the timber line. Du ring this time they had ascended over 6,000 feet to the summit, and then de scended 4,500 feet into the bowels of the volcano. That is, they were about eleven hours going up 0,000 feet, and three hours going down, including stoppages at the edge of the crater. Here they found a hut made of stones, inhabited by tiie sulphur miners. On arriving at the but they immediately threw themselves upon a pile of mats and sought slumber, but they lay all the long night wearied and worn, rolling and tossing in ineffectual at tempts to gain a little sleep. The next morning Corchado prepared breakfast, and summoned them to par take 1 of it. Aside from drinking a cup of coffee, they could eat nothing. Their stomachs were not used to the treatment they had been receiving the past thirty six hours, and so refused to be comforted. Their lungs, too, were also in rebellion, and were dis gusted with the vapidity <»f the air and the gaseous exhalations of the "breathing holes.'" These they now visited in company with their genor ous host. They are the mighty fis j sures that appear in every direction j„ the bottom of this vast cavity ( They are not very broad, but are deep, From these fissures issued dense ! masses of vapor and smoke, heavily j laden with sublimated sulphur. This ! condenses as soon as the steam strikes j the cold air above, and then falls in a IM » K prinkle mi the surrounding rocks, the,This process lias b«*en going on f«>r : ages, until the whole interior of this tromi«great orifice is ihieklv coated with a j " * j remarkably fine quality of the tl«*ur ofj j sulphur. This is In quantities that are | inexhaust il*l«\ and s «me «lay will pro out.jduce a e««los-al L.ituno for its owner, j (ù»n. Oe!u»a. F««rtv miners are now : engage*d in excavat ng and h listing it tojto the t«»p of the crater. To return to the chasms, however, j T|„. party visited the largest and i p r/ .,.d <l<»wn int«, it. They could see « no lx>tt«»m, |darkness. They rolled a huge stone ! jut«» its ragged throat. A series of reports, caused by the missile bound hisjing from side t<» side «*f the pit, came back, l«>ud at first but gradually di niinishing until they died away in the f*r it ended in stygian awful depths below. The other holes were vomiting steam and making a great noise, which at times seemed like the slow and laboring throb of Cyclopean enginery. At others it soundo«! like the bellowing and shriek ing of devils. Having now seen every thing that could be seen, they bid their new-made but long-to-bc-romcrn bered friend, Corchado, farewell, and set out to return, accompanied by four Indians. THE ASCENT. The 4,500 feet climb to the end of the rope was a fearful job, but the as cent by the rope w as still worse. They were compelled to kick and push against the cliff incessantly to prevent being dragged to pieces on the sharp rocks. They got to the top in safety, however, and there found more peons to take them to the "timber line." They made the descent by sitting down on a piece of thick matting, with an In dian seated behind each of them, to steer this novel vehicle while sliding down the mountain over the snow and ice. They descended six miles in less than twenty minutes. One time, while buried in a thick, snow-laden cloud, they came near slip ping into the Barranca del Muertc, a chasm 3,000 feet deep. On reaching the end of the snow fields they found their horses at La Cruz and then rode to Tlamacas. When I met them I scarcely recognized them, they were so haggard, sunburnt, bruised,, and dirty. When Cortez conquered Mexioo, Po pocatapetl was in a state of combus tion, and throwing out vast volumes of smoke, which could be seen for a him- 5 dred miles in every direction. Now the quantity is so small that it can be seen only after arriving at its base. The first white man to ascend it was Francisco Montano, in 1519. He was sent to the crater for a supply of sul phur for Cortez, and to impress the Aztecs with the courage of the Span iards. Since then numerous ascen sions have been made by eminent sa vans, travelers, and adventurers from Europe and the United States. Mrs. John W. Foster, the wife of our Min ister, and Mrs. Arthur Terry, of Con necticut, are the only women that ever scaled Popocatapetl to its top, and Col. S. G. Grasty and Harry Stevens, of Cleveland, are the billy foreigners that ever descended to the bottom of the crater, and there passed the night. The last eruption of Popocatapetl occurred, according to an ancient Az tec Maguey paper manuscript now in the possession of Senor Ramerez, of Mecarriecca, about the middle of the . fourteenth century, nearly one hun dred and seventy years before the Span iard first trod the valley of Mexico.— Cleveland Leader. That Russia is stealing a march on Great Britain is not doubtful—and has nut been for two years past. Every few months the British Government protests vigorously, and the Russian Emperor explains and apologizes in the blandest way possible—but still the gigantic march goes on. The la * tost development is the fact that Rus sia is laving* a railway across Persia, j U11 .j cr a secret, treaty stipulation with the Khan. This railway is connected with the Russian railway system. In this connection, our American Consul, Mr. Schuyler, wrote home that Abdul Rahman Khan had given assurances that the Afghans would gi;«diy take up arms against the British rule in In dia. If this statement is com*« ir shows the effect of Russian intrigiM with the Afghans. On the whole, t;.*• situation in Northwestern India is m-t reassuring to Englaud. - « ■ ■ —— The prospect of volcanic eruptions in the w'est seems to be good, if the opinion of the geologists of Wheeler's expedition is correct. In the past they have occurred so recently that it is in deed surprising that there is no human record of them, and eruptions may take place at any time in the future. In Southern Utah, they ascertained that there are connected floods of lava covering an area of five thousand square miles, while in Arizona and New Mexico there is an area of not less than twenty thousand square miles, and never before recognized as* a connected belt. Col. Carrington, U. S. Army, Pity* fessor of Military Science and Dynam ic Engineering at Wabash College, In diana, has been engaged for nearly four years in the preparation of a work upon the Battles of the Revolu tion, with maps, after the style of Jo mini's Napoleon. The purpose is to discuss the battles from a military standpoint, stripped of anecdote and all intrinsic matter, and accompanied by such outlines of military science as will adapt the volume to the mind of the general scholar, and make it as well a volume for instruction at all in stitutions of learning. This will bo something long needed.