158 
IL it be adwitted that any relative eonnexion exists be- 
tween these two Volcanos, we may reasonably suppose that 
their influence extended still further to the Westward, and that 
other mountains, more immediately in our Neighbourhood 
have emitted the sounds that were so distinctly heard on the 
1lth instant at Batavia and about the same period at Ban- 
ca.— We may probably be wrong in our conjectures upon 
this subject; but it certainly appears to us, that any sound 
which could be conveyed over a space of six or seven hun- 
dred miles, must have been insupportable at the distance of 
85 paals from the Crater. 
We shall leave the elmeidation, however of this interesting 
phenomenon to abler pens than ours. The account we have 
published is so explicit and satisfactory that hardly any addi-_ 
tional knowledge can be obtained, except by personal inves- 
tigation, and as the convulsions of the Tomboro mountain 
have nearly rivalled the workings either of Aetna or Vesuvius, 
we trust some curions traveller may be induced to explore its 
ravages, and throw further light upon a subject of so much 
kistorieal interest, to our Eastern world. 
(Java Govt. Gaz. May 20 1815 No. 169.) 
Op den 5e April wierden eenige kanonschoten te Makasasr 
gehoord; het geluid scheen van het zuiden te komen, en hield 
met tusschenpozingen den geheelen agtermiddag aan. Om- 
streeks zonnenondergang wierdt het geluid merkelyk sterker, 
en had allen schyn van zwaare kanonschoten, nu en dan door 
ligtere afgewisseld. In den nagt van den 11de wierden de scho- 
ten andermaal waargenomen, doch veel sterker dan te voren, 
en tegen den ochtend volgden dezelve elkander schielyk op, 
zoms een geluid makende als of drie of vier stukken geschut 
te gelyk wierden losgebrand. 
