Voim\ide^ iH^Ue^'Btiy of-HengaL 8*5 



Journal.' The cones are said by him to vary from 500 to 1600 

 feet, one peak, called Teeka, reaching the altitude of 3000. 

 Vapour and flame were seen to issue from one of the peaks 

 during the earthquake of 26th August 1833. oaaRtlnn 



There are various hot springs at Chittagong subject to 

 periodical eruptions, and which constantly emit gas and 

 flame. In 1843 a cone appeared off False Island, but 

 vanished in a few weeks, leaving no traces behind. About 

 an hour after sunrise, on the 26th July, the inhabitants of 

 Oheduba and Flat Island heard a great noise, and saw fire 

 rising out of the sea;' an earthquake had been felt just 

 before. This continued foi* some days, when on the 29th a 

 small island seemed to arise above the surface of the waters. 

 It continued visible for about a month ; but it was now the 

 monsoon, and the weather was too boisterous to permit of its 

 being approached. In October, on the return of the fine 

 season, search was made for it, but no trace of it could be 

 found. A careful survey of the spot was afterwards insti- 

 tuted by order of government, but no indication of commo- 

 tion, and no change in the aspect of the shore or bottom of 

 the sea was discoverable.* *rf>i ^^^^^ '^ni'j ^mM^ir. ^vh jji Yb>l)S 



There is a small volcano t^fe'at"Kyoitk Phyoo inVCfon^ant 

 state of activity, and which frequently emits smoke and 

 flame. The country; at the distance of four miles from it, was, 

 on the occasion of the eruption of 1842, brightly illuminated, 

 yet so little was the heat that the specimens from the crater 

 %N ere nowhere melt#d/"t rtrr^vz ' 



i " Within little more than ten years of this, a catastrophe, 

 Ijffrecisely the opposite of that from which Cheduba suflered, 

 Overtook Chittagong. During the great earthquake of April 

 »jl?^62,t sixty square miles of the low lands along the shore 

 were permanently SLubmergedL Ces-lung-toom, one of the Mug 



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«fi&qqii i\ '.aiBS^ 001 ;teal drfJ nlriJiw no ^nJog .^'f^ 



t8u[* AT>ridged frbm tte report^of tjBptain iHifed of the U. C. S. iJangea, who 

 qiwas sent to examine the spot. The account of the eruption obtained from the 

 inhabitants seems consistent and probable. it!- ;,:'•. \- ■. . , 



t As already stated, ('aptain B. Smith, considers thM«.«irfnlA ta,l>ftve oc- 

 curred simultaneously, not, as stated above, at the interval of ten years, Wr 

 Piddington ass^igning them the date of the Pondicherry rising, 1757. 



