Sarawak; Its Inhabitants and Productions: Being Notes During a Residence in that Country with H. H. the Rajah BrookeR. Bentley, 1848 - 416 ページ |
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15 ページ - Tomboro mountain (all of them apparently within the verge of the crater), and after ascending separately to a very great height, their tops united in the air in a troubled confused manner. In a short time, the whole mountain next to Sang'ir appeared like a body of liquid fire, extending itself in every direction.
16 ページ - Pekate no vestige of a house is left; twenty-six of the people, who were at Sumbawa at the time, are the whole of the population who have escaped. From the most particular inquiries I have been able to make, there were certainly no fewer than 12,000 individuals in Tomboro and Pekate at the time of the eruption, of whom only five or six survive.
13 ページ - Cheribon eastwards the air became darkened by the quantity of falling ashes; the sun was nearly darkened; and in some situations, particularly at Solo and Rembang, many said that they felt a tremulous motion of the earth. It was universally remarked in the more eastern districts, that the explosions were tremendous, continuing frequently during the llth, and of such violence as to shake the houses perceptibly. An unusual thick darkness was remarked all the following night, and the greater part of...
11 ページ - The sky was overcast at midday with clouds of ashes, the sun was enveloped in an atmosphere, whose " palpable density" he was unable to penetrate ; a shower of ashes covered the hous.es, the streets, and the fields, to the depth of several inches, and amid this darkness, explosions were heard at intervals, like the report of artillery, or the noise of distant thunder.
11 ページ - Superstition on the other hand was busily at work on the minds of the natives, and attributed the reports to an artillery of a different description to that of pirates. All conceived that the effects experienced might be caused by eruptions of some of the numerous volcanoes on the island ; but no one could have conjectured that the showers of ashes which darkened the air and covered the ground of the eastern districts of Java, could have proceeded from a mountain in Sumbawa, at the distance of several...
13 ページ - ... of such violence as to shake the houses perceptibly. An unusual thick darkness was remarked all the following night, and the greater part of the next day. At Solo candles were lighted at 4 pm of the 12th; at Magelan in Kedu, objects could not be seen at three hundred yards distance. At Gresik, and other districts more eastward, it was dark as night in the greater part of the 12th April, and this saturated state of the atmosphere lessened as the cloud of ashes passed along and discharged itself...
15 ページ - Sumbaya, its effects were much more violent, tearing up by the roots the largest trees, and carrying them into the air, together with men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within its influence. [This will account for the immense number of floating trees seen at sea.] The sea rose nearly twelve feet higher than it had ever been known to do before, and completely spoiled the only small spots of rice land in Sang'ir, sweeping away houses and everything within its reach.
14 ページ - Gresie on Java. The former is 217 nautical miles distant from the seat of the volcano; the latter, in a direct line, more than 300 geographical miles distant."* Such is the effect of a single volcano even at so many hundred miles distance.
20 ページ - Kaladi, and was a limestone hill about 200 feet in height, the surface of which was worn, like all the limestone rocks of the country, apparently by water, into ridges so sharp that it would have been exceedingly dangerous to have fallen upon them. Amongst these ridges were holes, very small continuations of which penetrated into the heart of the mountain, some of them being forty or more feet in depth. The only difficulty appeared to be in the labour of making the aperture sufficiently large to...
11 ページ - Almost every one," says this writer, "is acquainted with the intermitting convulsions of Etna and Vesuvius as they appear in the descriptions of the poet, and the authentic accounts of the naturalist ; but the most extraordinary of them can bear no comparison, in point of duration and force, with that of Mount Tomboro in the Island of...