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vapours may issue a long time before the actual outbreak of 

 the volcano. I shall quit the subject, for the present, with 

 this observation, that I have had so many examples before me 

 of the intimate connection of atmospheric and telluric dis- 

 turbances, as to feel inclined to admit it as established. In 

 the present case, there is only an interval of eleven days 

 between the appearance of the meteors in America, and the 

 outbreak of Bocket Kaba, a volcano of Palambang (Nov. 24. 

 1833). This eruption was most dreadful. The whole of Java 

 was shaken by earthquakes, attended by inundations from a lake 

 on the mountain called Telaga Ketjiel, which covered several 

 hamlets to the depth of 21 ft., leaving a mud deposit 7 ft. 

 thick. Kaba is 50 leagues from Palambang, and yet the 

 water of the great river Moessie was not fit to drink for 

 several weeks, owing to mephitic mixtures. Even as late as 

 February, 1834, there were floods and great rains; and Telo 

 Mojo, a mountain of the province of Ngassinan, sank down 

 in consequence. {Journal de la Haye.) I take one more cor- 

 respondence, in illustration of the last of the professor's ex- 

 amples of meteors. He quotes (p. 137.), from the Medical 

 Gazette and New England Farmer of May 1. 1833, an ac- 

 count of a shower of fire m the department of the Orne in 

 France, seen at Caen and at Argenton, for two hours, one 

 morning in the end of April. Earthquakes, &c., were very 

 common about this time in various parts of the earth. Juasco 

 and Coquimbo, in the west (on April 25.), were dreadfully 

 shaken ; while, in the east, very early in April, the inhabitants 

 of Manilla were alarmed by the sudden decrease of water in 

 their river, attributed to a volcanic eruption in the interior. 

 The water became green, unpleasant in odour, and could not 

 be used. Pestilence was, in consequence, feared. (Canton 

 Register, May 18. 1833.) On April 4. occurred an earth- 

 quake at Vicenza ; on the 17th, a hurricane in lat. 28° s. 52° e..; 

 and at the end of the month, about the time of the others 

 above named, earthquakes in Demerara. At this time, also, 

 universal and unusual drought extended through the earth, 

 occasioned, doubtless, by internal heat : Buenos Ayres lost 

 2,000,000 head of cattle in consequence, while New South 

 Wales and the Cape of Good Plope suffered in proportion. 

 Europe also felt its effects. These facts may be considered 

 extravagant illustrations ; but, surely, when it is known that 

 the meteors of Nov. 14. 1833, at Brunck, were accompanied 

 by aerolites (see VII. 293.), and by " falling stars" (Olmsted, 

 in Sill. Journ., 134.); and that such meteors have preceded, 

 accompanied, and succeeded, earthquakes ; and that they have 

 been seen over volcanoes (VII, 291, 292.), there is, I think, na 



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