THE SUBMARINE VOLCANO OFF CAPE COLVILLE.
The Marine Department at Wellington, has received the following telegram from Captain Fairchild There is no mistake about the volcano reported by Captain Andrews near Channel Island, off Cape Colville. We found it without any trouble. The water is boiling up like a spring for the space of abodt one hundred feet. Channel Island bears N. by W. three-quarters of a mile. The water is muddy and yellow’. The yellow water drifts away with the tide, and is in shape very much like the tail of a comet. There is no change in the soundings. The least water we found was 24 fathoms, so that navigators need not be afraid to go their usual tracks when passing there. I took the Stella in the spot, dropped the lead into the centre of the boil, and there found 20 fathoms. I left the lead down as long as I could to see if it would come up hot, but it came up quite cold, and brought up broken shells.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 964, 27 July 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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174THE SUBMARINE VOLCANO OFF CAPE COLVILLE. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 964, 27 July 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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