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.