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Ch. XXVII.] ERUPTIONS OF GALONGOON, JAVA, IN 1822. 



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which is 40 miles distant. Ever j valle j within the range of this 

 eruption became filled with a burning torrent, and the rivers 

 swollen with hot water and mud, overflowed their banks, and 

 carried away great numbers of the people, who were en- 

 deavouring to escape, and the bodies of cattle, wild beasts, 

 and birds. A sjDace of 24 



the river Tandoi was covered to such a depth with bluish mud 

 that people were buried in their houses, and not a trace of 

 the numerous villages and plantations tln-oughout that extent 

 was visible. Within this space the bodies of those who 

 perished were buried in mud and concealed, but near the 

 limits of the volcanic action they were exposed, and strewed 

 over the ground in great numbers, partly boiled and partly 

 burnt. 



It was remarked, that the boiling mud and cinders were 

 projected with such violence from the mountain, that while 

 many remote villages were utterly destroyed and buried, 

 others much nearer the volcano were scarcely injured. 



The first eruption lasted nearly five hours, and on the 

 following days the rain fell in torrents, and the rivers, densely 

 charged with mud, deluged the country far and wide. At 

 the end of four days (October 12th), a second eruption 

 occurred more violent than the first, in which hot water and 



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of basalt were 



thrown to the distance of 7 miles from the volcano. 



same time 



one account it is stated that the face of the mountain was 



one side, 

 enormous 



utterly changed, its summit broken down, and 

 which had been covered with trees, became an 

 gulf in the form of a semicircle. This cavity was about 

 midway between the summit and the plain, and surrounded 

 oy steep rocks, said to be newly heaped up during the erup- 



New hills and valleys are said to have been formed, 



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and in one night (October 12tli) 2,000 persons were killed. 

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