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traverse the cone from SSE (47
to N.N.W. (Cf. Le Bonchet's
map) making a gigantic
letter X with the Grande
Fente. The Cratère Napoleon
(21,54 A or B)
fumaroie rises through a small
cone about three feet high and
twelve feet in diameter situated
in the northwestern quarter of
a shallow-
oval saucer-like depression
or crater about 100 feet across.
Apparently an explosion took
place here at some time (looked up eruption of 1857) and
the present fumaroie is the resi-
due of the activity which caused
that explosion. Considerable
sulphur has been depos-
it ed in and on the little
cone. Steam issues from