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Dwindling 10,000. Like the anabasis of Xenophon's 10,000 Greek mercenaries (hired by Persia's Cyrus II to fight his brother Artaxerxes), Alaska's famed Valley of 10,000 Smokes (created by Mt. Katmai blowing off its top) has dwindled to about 100 steaming earth vents.? Robert Fiske Griggs (George Washington...
...Next largest active volcanoes: Alaska's Katmai, 8.4 mi.; Hawaii's Kilauea, 8 mi. Vesuvius measures about one mile...