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earth's surface, and that through the openings thus formed the 

 liquitl rock had poured, retainmg the uptilted fragments in their 

 new position. 



SEVELITCH VOLCANO, FROM THE SOUTH. 



About nine months after our departure from Kamschatka a 

 series of eruptions appear to have taken place, which in grandeur 

 must have rivalled those described hj Krasheninikov in 1737. 

 Of these no particulars seem ever to have been published, for two 

 years later the very fact of their occurrence wms unknown both to 

 the Eoyal and Royal Geographical Societies. But, from the fact 

 of their ha\dng been spichronous with the terrible catastrophe at 

 Krakatau, they present features of such interest that I here quote 

 the cutting of the " Japan Gazette," to which I am indebted for the 

 only information I can obtain upon the subject : — 



" The Java Eruptions. — We are indebted to Mr. T. R. Green, who lias 

 just returned from a prolonged journey in Northern Asia, for some highly 



