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KRAKATOA.It ia shout H(htM jnn since tha moat atupendoua and appalling of .11 the codtuIihhii of nature which have oe cuired ntti.r is ancient or modern Urn,, look place. August *7, 18«3. .1 10 a.m.. the greater portion of I ho island of Krakatoa, is the Strait. of Husda. wsa destroyed, while two sew islands wore created bv volraaie sriion. The eruption ranted a great irismie ware of ■he sea. which orerwh«imed the villager on the neighbouring shores and drowned upward, of thirty thousand pereoas. The height of the crest of thi» wsee has been rsnously estimsted, but st Teloh Beloug, is 8umatra. the water resrhed within sii feet of the residmrj, which •tends on s hill seventy eight feet shove the level of the ten. sed the Ditch Bin o' war Berouw. anchored of! the const, wsa csrried by tbe «ave up s vnlley nearly two miles intend, sad wsa left high and dry more then thirty feet above the tee level.If s gentleman were to tell os that he had heard an esplo.ios which had taken place some thirty miles sway we ahould probably think that he was under a misapprehension But if he told u« that he had heard one a di.tanoe of three hundred uilee, we ehould have no ds»bt as to the rendition of hie mind. It is, nevertheless, a fact, that the eiploeion of Krakatoa was heard aol onlv thirty or three huadred mi lea away, but aleo at a distance of three thousand mi lea It waa hoard in India and it waa heard in Australia, ond also in the island of Bodrigues, which is about two thousand nine hundred and silly eight miles from Krakatoa in a direct line. Moreover, the seismic wave of the sea referred to waa BOtired sot only in Bouth Africa, hot aleo at Cape Horn, which is seven thousand five hundred mtlee dietnnt from the Straita of Sundn.
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Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal
Braidwood, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Oct 05, 1901
Page 5
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Hamilton C.
NY, USA 13 Nov 2018
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