GREAT EARTHQUAKE IK JAVA, 
365^ 
Although the earthquake was felt throughout the whole residency 
of Cheribon, its devastation was confined to the northern and west¬ 
ern parts of the regency Cheribon , the eastern and northern parts of 
the regency of Madja Lengka, and the division Indramayu. 
Light shocks continued to be felt until the 20th Nov. which how¬ 
ever occasioned no damage. It has been ascertained, on investiga¬ 
tion, that the shocks made themselves most heavily felt on the north 
east and north west slope of the mountain Tjermae. There the 
ground was split in more than forty places, and rents are found of 
more than fifty roods long, and three to four feet broad. In some 
places the roads to the coffee gardens are rent, so that the approach 
to the same for the present is impossible. The coffee gardens them¬ 
selves, however, have not suffered ; nor even the dessas lying on the 
mountains, with the exception of the small dessa Tjibulu where the 
ground is torn. The inhabitants of this dessa, consisting of 29 fa¬ 
milies, had time to take flight. 
From a private letter from an honored hand, we are put in pos¬ 
session of further particulars of the earthquake in the residency of 
Cheribon. 
The first shocks were felt between half past 10 and 11 o’clock, 
the exact time can be ascertained with difficulty, because the clocks 
and watches in the interior differ. The first shock lasted fully 30 
seconds ; the direction in the first alarm was not observed, how r ever it 
was not a proper undulation, but more a thrilling with short shocks. 
Some seconds thereafter the second shock began, which lasted about 
20 or 30 seconds and was still heavier. From the very short inter¬ 
mission between the first and second shocks, the two might he taken 
for one. 10 to 12 minutes later the third shock came, as heavy as 
the two previous. It then appeared that the direction was -from 
South West to North East. All these shocks were accompanied bv 
a dull vibratory noise, exactly like that which the iron cable makes 
at the bow of a ship when the anchor is falling. The undulation of 
the buildings was plainly seen. 
The writer journeying the same day on a tour of inspection to Ar- 
