Fusiyama (properly Fuji-san), a sacred volcano, the loftiest mountain of Japan, stands on the main island, about 60 miles S.W. of Tokio, and rises some 12,400 feet above sea-level, with a crater 500 feet deep. Its last eruption was in 1707. The cone is free from snow only in July—September, when thousands of white-robed Buddhist pilgrims make the ascent easily enough.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 45
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