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VOLCANIC EEUPTIOXS IN JAVA. 



[Ch. XXVII. 



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regions as the Campa 

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beration, however, may perhaps be assisted by grottos and 



may 



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no countenance to the hypothesis of a great arched cavity 

 four square miles in extent, and in the centre 550 feet 



high.^ 



No recent eruptions of 



In a former edition I stated 



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that I had been informed by Ca^jtain Yetcb, that in 1819 a 

 tower at Gnadalaxara was thrown down bj an earthquake 

 and that ashes, supposed to have come from Jorullo fell at 

 the same time at Guanaxuato, a town situated 140 Eno-hsli 

 miles from the volcano. But Mr. Burldiardt, a German 

 director of mines, who examined Jorullo in 1827, ascertained 



in 1803. He 



Humboldt 



a slight 



evolution of sulphurous acid vapours, but the 



forth 



During' 



the twentj-four years intervening between his visit and that 



had made great progress on tlie 



Humboldt 



of the surrounding 



flanks of the new hills, the rich soil 



country was once more covered with luxuriant crops of 



sugar-cane and indigo, and there was an abundant growth of 



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mountain 



Galongoon, Java, 1822. 

 Galung Gung) was in 1822 covered by a dense forest, and 

 situated in a fruitful and thickly-peopled part of Java. 

 There was a circular hollow at its summit, but no tradition 



eruption. In July, 1822, the waters of 



mer 



Kun 



time 



On October 8 following, 



a loud explosion was heard, the earth shook, and immense 



brimsto 



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mixed 



mountain 



violence that large quantities fell beyond the river Tandoi 



^ See Serope on Yolcaiios, p. 267. 



t Leonliard and Eronn's Neues Jahrbiich, 1835, p. 36. 



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