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“yent)' or Uiirty f’e.'t in a perfectly regular mail' 
pu.slifd up by a force benci'.th. Ihis 
I o dii with a dull noise, and scatters, iti 
earth 
same mannet 
i/*®' a volume of black mud. After . 
seconds, the hemispherical body of 
Its 
'■q: 
rises and explodes. In the 
^ til'll 
'^ebullition goes on without interruption, throw- 
huuular body of mud, and disiier.sing it with 
otigli the iieighbouring plain, 'i'he spot w'hcru 
■‘pu occurs is nearly oirculir, ttnd perfectly level. 
J.1 la UL-til ly C<liClUiU ) iliU.l |;t lAt.L,Uy ILVCi 
yp'd V covered with the eaitl'.y particles, iinprcg- 
are thrown up from below. 
to 
Gi'ence may be e.slimated at about half a mile, 
ta ‘‘ P>is. ^'^t'duct the salt water to the circumference, 
,t;ritters, are made in the loose muddy 
lead it to the borders, where it is collected in 
Or 
-surrounding atmos- 
^ '^tig in the grouRd, for the purpose of 
• The mud recently thrown up, possesses a 
he .surrounding atmot 
.tnd sulphureous smell. 
pungent, an- 
su ‘5fBp , . r phenomenon is situated near the centre ot 
I “rge r 1 
Y 'wliich interrupts the series of the more con- 
" ®0r,f ., ulcaiioes, and owes its origin to the general 
file 
t-i “‘td c ’"^rneroiis volcanic eruptions which occur in 
''ti« 
violence ivilli which nature marks the 
by jj '°^uanoes in these regions, will be best exem- 
* fullowing' details of the extraordinary and 
pWiomena which accompanied the emp- 
1‘fth'**' die T°*^*^uro mountain, in the i.slaud of Sumbawa, 
\ 1 ? 'h An .?'®'fuse cluster. This eruption, ii'liich hap- 
Kr ^ wus sensibly felt over the whole of 
of Q '^^^3uds, over Java, and over a considerablo 
Sumatra, and Borneo, to a circiun- 
Viti^'f't.n,,-^ thousand statute miles from its 
j. ^lOTl 
f'f tiff®'® its more immediate activity, embracing a- 
V'Ao 
S^tbn 
^tOTioNs and LOUD 
centre, by 
EXPLOSIONS : while, 
i'undrcd miles around it, it produced the 
and excited the most alarming 
See' Java, at the distance of three hundred 
^t to be awfully present. The sky was 
®oii.(jav witli a cloud of ashes ; the suu was 
