. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 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

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