Note 95 — Chapter V
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The observation at the base, however, was taken on the previous day at the very bottom of the cone, a much lower position than the place from which we taped. Stromboli, the type of a permanently active volcano, is an elliptical cone of nearly 3000 feet, rising from deep water with a crater at the summit, breached upon its weakest side; from this vent a plain steeper than the other sides of the mountain runs to the sea.