. Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . THE RECENT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN NEW ROFESSOR , ,has published thefollowing accountof this remarkableoccurrence in Nature. Untilthe report of atrained geologisthas been receivedwe must be contentwith the narratives,often conflicting, ofthe surveyors andof the Press cor-respondents whohurried to the sceneof the great catas-trophe that has re-cently devastatedthe wonderland ofNew Zealand. Inthe meantime, however, it is possible from thevarious accounts to trac
. Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . THE RECENT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN NEW ROFESSOR , ,has published thefollowing accountof this remarkableoccurrence in Nature. Untilthe report of atrained geologisthas been receivedwe must be contentwith the narratives,often conflicting, ofthe surveyors andof the Press cor-respondents whohurried to the sceneof the great catas-trophe that has re-cently devastatedthe wonderland ofNew Zealand. Inthe meantime, however, it is possible from thevarious accounts to trace the leading features of theeruption, and to note their resemblance to those ofother recorded volcanic outbursts. It is impossiblenot to be struck with the analogy between thephenomena exhibited last June in New Zealand andthose that accompanied the great Vesuvian eruptionin the first century of our era. In both instances amountain which had never been known to be anactive volcano suddenly exploded with terrificviolence, filling the air with ashes and stones. Ateach locality there were the premonitory earthquakes,the thick black pall of volcanic cloud h
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