By revising the data used by MENDENHALL and by following his method in which the shape of the Mt. Fuji is assumed to be a circular cone, the authors obtain in this paper that the mean density of the mountain as considered from the gravity at the summit is 1.80 or 1.83, according as the gravity station is taken at a point S
1 or at another S
2, as against 2.08 obtained by MENDENHALL. In order to carry on a further inquiry, the authors first make an approach of employing the actual form of the mountain as exactly as possible and obtain A
m=105.37ρ or 105.02ρ mgal as the vertical attraction of the mountain at S
1 or S
2 respectively, where ρ is the mean density under consideration. In finding the value of A
m from the gravity value at the summit, the effect of the subsurface anomalous masses due to geological structure and isostasy has to be taken into consideration and this will be reported in the next occasion.
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