. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 88 AUSTRALASIA. what mighty fleets were engaged in deadly combat in the neighbouring seas. The commotion shook the atmosphere for a vast space, estimated at the fotir- teenth part of the planetary surface ; the underground mutterings heard in the American isLand of Caiman Brae, almost at the antipodes of Krakatau, may even have proceeded from the same source. The clouds of ashes ejected to a height of sixteen, or according to one report twenty-one miles, fell in dense Fig. 31.—Range or Dispersion of the Keakatau Ashes. Scale 1 : 15,000, Easb
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 88 AUSTRALASIA. what mighty fleets were engaged in deadly combat in the neighbouring seas. The commotion shook the atmosphere for a vast space, estimated at the fotir- teenth part of the planetary surface ; the underground mutterings heard in the American isLand of Caiman Brae, almost at the antipodes of Krakatau, may even have proceeded from the same source. The clouds of ashes ejected to a height of sixteen, or according to one report twenty-one miles, fell in dense Fig. 31.—Range or Dispersion of the Keakatau Ashes. Scale 1 : 15,000, Easb cF \05° 300 Miles. masses over a vast space round about the island, which had been blown to pieces. Within a range of nine miles the bed thus formed was over three feet thick ; in the interior of Sumatra, ninety miles off, some places were covered two or three inches deep, and the surface of the water was still powdered in the Indian Ocean beyond the Keeling Islands, a distance of 720 miles. The débris was wafted as far as the shores of Madagascar, and the displacement of rocks in the form of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
Size: 1434px × 1742px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectgeography, bookyear18
