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and running off in flats upon which the bowlders, sometimes very large, are irregularly scattered.  There was formerly an excellent harbor for small craft here, and the inner harbor still exists, but the entrance is now dry at low water.  This change was brought about in the last eruption (about 1888?) and that it was due to an elevation of the bottom and not to filling up by the fall of ejected material is evident from the presence of a number of more or less stunted spruce trees near the shore which are evidently older than the eruption and would have been killed by the fall of material sufficient to choke the harbor.
The peak has the regular volcanic form, the apex being broken away to the west and