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GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN JAVA*. 
djowinangon 16 miles from Cheribon, found all in ruins, and was 
obliged to pass the night in a hambu hut. On the following morning, 
proceeding further on horse back, the shocks began anew, with such 
violence that the horse would not proceed further. 
On the 18th, he proceeded on horseback to Buntamatti on the 
river Tijmunok, lying 16 miles southward from Indramaiju. Here 
the shocks must also have been heavy, for all that could fall lay on 
the ground. In the house of an overseer, three different rents were 
made in the ground by the first shock, through which water, mingled 
with fine bluish sand, spouted up to the height of three feet. Jud¬ 
ging by the direction of fallen objects the shocks were felt from south¬ 
west to northeast. 
The atmosphere was unusually clear, so that from this place the 
mountains in the Preanger Regencies could be seen; from one of 
these, probably Gunong Guntor, a column of smoke ascended. 
The following day at Dana Radja, where all the stone buildings 
had been over turned, the ground was found to be rent in more than 
fifty places. From most of the fissures water spouted up mingled 
with fine bluish sand like the sea sand on the beach at Cheribon. 
The overseer declared that the water was warm, and that it had a 
disagreeable smell. The direction of the shocks must here have been 
from southwest to northeast as appears from the direction in which 
some stones, which stood on their sides to dry, had fallen. 
In a small dessa named Genting , five miles to the northward of 
Dana Radja, and in another dessa named Persona, 8 miles to the 
northward, the quantity of water and sand spouted from the ground was 
so great that, according to the natives, it occasioned an actual inun¬ 
dation. On the same day also the mountain in the Preanger Re¬ 
gencies above spoken of was seen to smoke strongly. 
The mountain Tjermae in Cheribon, was, during all the time in 
question, uncommonly clear and cloudless, and nothing peculiar could 
be observed on it. 
According to the view of the writer, the shocks which were felt 
in the above named place came from the direction of the Preanger 
Regencies, and' the undulation of the ground was checked by the 
