In four years the island grew into a large cone, 3000 feet
above the sea-level, and two or three miles in circumference. Two years
later it was still so hot that when some hunters landed on it they found
the soil too warm for walking. It was named Ionna Bogoslova (St. John
the Theologian), by the Russians, Agashagok by the Aleuts, and is now
known to the whites of that region as Bogosloff. Mr. Dall believes
that it occupies the site of some rocks that existed there as long as
tradition extends.

There were additions to the cone up to the year 1823, when it became so
quiescent as to be the favorite haunt of seals and sea-fowls, and,
when the weather was favorable, was visited by native egg-hunters
from Unalaska. During the summer of 1883 Bogosloff was again seen
in eruption, as it was thought. However, on closely examining the
neighborhood, it was found that the old island was undisturbed, but that
there had been a fresh eruption, which had resulted in the extension of
Bogosloff by the appearance of a cone and crater (Hague Volcano), 357
feet high, connected with the parent island by a low sand-spit, and
situated in a spot where, the year before, the lead showed 800 fathoms
of water. At the same time Augustin and two other previously quiet
islands on the peninsula of Alaska began simultaneously to emit smoke,
dust and ashes, while a reef running westward and formerly submerged
became elevated to the sea surface. Other islands, of origin exactly
similar to Bogosloff and those mentioned, are to be found in this
region, notably Koniugi and Kasatochi, in the western Aleutians,
and Pinnacle Island, near St. Matthew Island. Indeed, the volcano of
Kliutchevsk, which rises to a height of over 15,000 feet, is really a
volcanic island.

A permanent addition was made to the Aleutian group of Islands by the
action of a submarine volcano in 1806. This new island has the form of
a volcanic peak, with several subsidiary cones. It is four geographical
miles in circumference. In 1814 another arose out of the sea in the same
archipelago, the cone of which attained a height of 3,000 feet; but at
the end of a year it lost a portion of this elevation.

In 1856, in the sea in the same neighborhood, Captain Newell, of the
whaling bark Alice Fraser, witnessed a submarine eruption, which was
also seen by the crews of several other vessels. There was no island
formed on this occasion, but large jets of water were thrown up, and the
sea was gr