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GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN JAVA. 
6tii. December. 
Since this number of the Journal was printed, we have received 
accounts from Batavia of a severe Earthquake which was experienced 
there, and over an extensive region in Java, on the 16th. of last month 
(November.) As this earthquake appears to have been (with one 
exception) the most severe that has been experienced for thirty years, 
we lose no time in laying before our readers the following details, 
translated from the Javasche Courant. They are preceded bv some 
notices of previous subterranean disturbances. 
In the Courant of the 27th October, it was mentioned that a 
shower of ashes had fallen at Bu itenzorg on the night of the 17 th, 
which it was supposed had proceeded ft orn the crater of the Gede. 
It now appears that it was not the Gede, but the Guntur mountain, 
in the Regency of Limbangan, residency of Preangar, which was 
working. On Sunday the 17th October, at 11 o’clock p. m., three 
earthquake shocks, following' each other in quick succession, were 
felt at Tijandjur, the first of which was very strong, and lasted for 
fully ten seconds. The shower of ashes began to fall the same night, 
and on the following morning had already clothed the earth, grass, 
trees, and buildings with a brown covering. The fall of ashes and 
sand lasted the whole day, and made it very inconvenient to be in the 
open air. Persons who were travelling experienced from it a very 
<1 Agreeable attack in their eyes. 
'flie earthquakes had not wholly stopped at Tijundjur on the 29th 
October. The mountain had, however, fortunately begun to be at 
rest, and no damage had been caused by the eruption. The shower of 
ashes had reached as far as the frontiers of the residency of Bantam, 
a distance of more than 80 miles to the westward of the place of the 
eruption. 
On the 3rd Nov, a guard house at Samarang was struck by light¬ 
ning, by which three natives in it were killed, and other two severe¬ 
ly hurt* 
