Volcanoes frequently blow their heads off ; and whan, one of them has met with this sort of accident, and the sea pours down its threat, the result is—Krakatoa. That explosion in the Straits of Sunda blew all the adjacent geography out of shape. Tho smoke rose to a height of 17 miles, and made black fog a hundred miles away. The sound was heard at a distance of two thousand miles ; and flying dust, encircling the whole earth, caused, in the sunsets of November and December, 1883, afterglows of miraculous beauty never to he forgotten,
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 50, 17 July 1906, Page 8
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