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of and Bartquake was sensibly felt in Batavia and its Envi- 
rons. It commeneed between 11 amd 12 o'eloek, and the se- 
verest shoek was felt a little before midnight. ‘The back part 
of a house on the Jacatra road was thrown down by the vio- 
lenee of the motion. The rumbling noise which generally ac- 
companies these convulsions of nature, appeared to be much 
louder in that quarter than towards Ryswick and Weltevreden, 
and the agitation of the earth proportionally greater. We arc 
glad to state that no lives were lost nor have we heard of any 
further damage beyond that before mentioned. We understand 
the motion was perceived at and beyond Buitenzorg. 
(Java Govt. Gazette 26 Maart 1814 No. 109). 
UITBARSTING VAN DEN BROMO. 
We have not yet received any particulars of the eruption that 
has recently taken place mm the volcano at Goonong Bromo, 
about sixty miles South-East of Sonrabaya, but from the quan- 
tity of ashes that are scattered over the mountainous parts of 
the Island we have no doubt but the discharge has been very 
considerable. ‘The supposed canonnade on the morning of the 
11 the instant excited no small degree of curiosity at Batavia, 
and as similar sounds were heard at Sourabaya on the 5th, we 
are looking anxiously forward for letters from the Kastward. 
“a Yesterday” says our Correspondent of the 6th, va rumbling 
„noise commensed under the earth which lasted from 2 o'clock 
„until 8, it resembled the discharge of canmon, and was ac- 
„companied by intense heat and a thiekmess in the atmosphere 
„nthad confined the sight to a very limited distance.” Other 
accounts mention that the volcano at Goonong Bromo was 
most awfully grand, that it was sending forth vast quantities 
of ashes, and that the whole hemisphere was so illumuniated 
that a Newspaper could be read at midnight in the streets of 
Sourabava. 
