A HIVE OF VOLCANOES.
OVER THREE THOUSAND ACTIVE VOLCANOES IN LOWER CALIFORNIA.
San Diego, Cal., July 25.—The San Diegan to-day publishes a descriptive account by Colonel I. K. Allen, the well-known engineer, of a phenomena in what is known as the volcano region of the Cocapah Mountains, situated sixty-five miles southwest of Yuma in Lower California. Colonel Allen says there are over three thousand active volcanoes there, one-half of which are small cones, ten or twelve feet at the base, the remaining half five to forty feet at the base, and fifteen to twenty-five in height. The whole volcanic region is encrusted with sulphur. One peculiar feature of the region is a lake of water jet black, which is a quarter of a mile in length and an eighth of a mile in width, seemingly bottomless. The water is hot and salty.