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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita00recl (find matches)
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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KRAKATAU. 89 ashes and piimice was estimated at as much as 630 billions of cubic feet. The whole terrestrial atmosphere would even appear to have been charged with the impalpable volcanic dust as far as the upper limits of the aerial spaces, at least according to Norman Lockyer's theory, attributing the marvellous afterglows of the following autumn months to the igneous particles ejected by Krakatau on August 2Gth, 1883.* The seas also were agitated around the whole circumference of the globe, as attested by the readings of the mareographs at various oceanic stations, and in the Indian Ocean by the great marine wave which in thirteen hours was propagated as far as the Cape of Good Hope. The reports of the fugitives from the threatened villages and of the crews of Fiar. 32.—Steamer borne on the Krakatau Wave inland to Telokh-Betong.
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vessels near the scene of the disturbance created an impression that the field of destruction had even been still more widespread. But after the ashes were dispersed, and skippers could again venture into the Sunda Strait, the spectacle revealed to them seemed none the less harrowing and bewildering. The coast towns of Anjer and Tjaringi on the Javanese side, Beneawang and Telokh-Betong on that of Sumatra, had disappeared, while no trace remained of the numerous villages lately dotted along both shores. The cocoanut forests which fringed the seaboard to the foot of the hills had been swept clean away ; a huge wave 100 to 120 feet hio-h, caused by the sinking of the volcano, had dashed against the coast, * Times, December 8th, 1883.

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