. The earth and its inhabitants .. . .^i*gs^%jt3| --â - while the aerial eddies carried the ashes southwards to New Grenada. The crash, of the ruptured mountain was heard on the Bogota uplands, a distance of over 1,000 miles as the crow flies. Altogether the ashes fell on a space of about 1,600,000 square miles, while the erupted matter was estimated at 1,750 billions of cubic feet. The explosion lasted forty-three hours, but the people of the sur- rounding plains had time to escape, with their domestic animals, followed by wild beasts, birds and reptiles, beyond the reach of the stifling
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . .^i*gs^%jt3| --â - while the aerial eddies carried the ashes southwards to New Grenada. The crash, of the ruptured mountain was heard on the Bogota uplands, a distance of over 1,000 miles as the crow flies. Altogether the ashes fell on a space of about 1,600,000 square miles, while the erupted matter was estimated at 1,750 billions of cubic feet. The explosion lasted forty-three hours, but the people of the sur- rounding plains had time to escape, with their domestic animals, followed by wild beasts, birds and reptiles, beyond the reach of the stifling gases. Some 30 miles south-east of Coseguina rises the twin-crested mass of the 51
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