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Oceania. 



Philippine Islands. 



Five active volcanos. Travellers have hitherto given only 

 vague accounts of the volcanos of the Philippines. Albay is the 

 name of that in the island of Luconia ; Taal is situate to the 

 south of Manilla ; Fuego to the south of Luconia ; Mindanao 

 also contains a volcano. 



Borneo. 



Geographers agree in assigning volcanos to Borneo, but with- 

 out stating either their number or situation with precision. 



Barren Island. 



Barren Island contains a very active volcano of nearly 4000 

 feet high, which frequently ejects immense columns of smoke, 

 and red-hot stones, of the weight of three or four tons. Its lati- 

 tude is 12° 15'. Its distance from the most eastern of the 

 Andaman Islands is 15 leagues ; the island is not more than six 

 leagues in circumference. 



Sumatra. 



Four volcanos are marked by Marsden in his map of Sumatra ; 

 but as the interior of the island is very little known, there proba- 

 bly exist a greater number. 



Java. 



The island of Java contains a great number of volcanos 

 arranged in right lines ; their names and the dates of their erup- 

 tion are the following : 



Salak, 1761 ; eruption. 



Tankuban, 1804 ; sulphureous vapours. 



Guntur, 1807 ; eruption. 



Gagak, ; partial combustion. 



Chermai, 1805; eruption. 



Lawn, 1806 ; sulphureous vapours. 



Arjuna, ; permanent column of smoke, 



Dasar, 1804 ; eruption. 

 Lamongan, 1806 ; eruption. 

 Tasher, 1706 ; eruption. 

 Klut, 1785 ; eruption. 



Arjuna is 10,614 feet high; this mountain is not, however, 

 the most lofty in the island. 



Mount Papandayang was one of the principal volcanos of 

 the island; but it is no longer in existence. Between the 11th 

 and 12th of August, 1772, after the formation of a great lumi* 

 nous cloud, the mountain totally disappeared in the bowels of 

 the earth. It has been estimated that the land thus ingulphed 

 was 14 miles long and 6 miles broad. 



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