The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-09-11 00:00:00

THZ EARTH IN ITS VRRHUL

Toe mom is dual. It has not life euoagb I one
fats .he tiniest mud VJICADA or spurt out toe losable.'
server. No throb ever reaches its surface, and nst the
fruitiest rumb.• is ever uchoed (tom its j tided mountain
&Won No earthquske wave can ever ascii) itt islaud
outman for orarthqaakes there ars things of the almost
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ioduite pat. and Lite tut drop of watar qtoct ths ear-
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r.c. of aba 11311111 ago. DA vor7 stalNlPhor• aaa

deserted it, end if. indeed. 11010 were • "men in the
moon," he could never beer the sound o his own voice.
Be! if by gum. meaus tote m)taical man °Quid have wit
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named the 'lschia iihmster " and the "Jays catastrophe "
how he wodld have longed that any suea manifutaucies
of life were possiole on his titillate pleoet. The occur.
:once like thee. retorted to are calmnittee everyone mu.t
Wiwi', .111 *ouzo may be apt to in eiutsio (bet mate'.
or. iv.l in his earthly mune has been premature, and
toot Prow hienco wont 1 hare ectod Intro wisely sad
humilities' had he p istpacial ismin's advent oh the Wen •
metal the "Internal tirm" had ex woofed themselees. But
when that h•opend, go,.Oilett d4ll tub, so may lOrid 110 'n
Ii ise the bogeuidat oh toe eud. Not even Lee fkM
deg. beet of the eau which beet. upon by.), pert of
gag moon lot • tortuiatit at a time an.. to route within
its boootu the faintest sign of life. Tilers to eivideuce
*pundit lb *how that at 040 period its yolcinic ecti•itl
trailed bade been ot the 01.1 t StUVehaa,t• 0,01, far era:ood-
les anytaeng ever witmeaael on ad mother earth. But
Wm use gone with its wehir sad it. atmosphere, and
taken with *1 .11 poesihtlity of die. Vir are to.d that our
..i.ugge,.;;..goak sal yeyeeril. aud mud-holes are but tU
dying reat•ind of woet .1 the tun, MU& have bean a
volcanic acti•ity eltn 11l uaivereel. (nicest of sparm ilic
eruption. ala few isoiativil epos, we had • c easiest out-
Pour of volcanic met .oc how wide Secures extending
across the earth% au face for many uailcs, rust the Witt
h,. got yet, however. drely 10.1 It. rigour if Written
from taw Jaya init,,Litat, which id to. 11/0•• &mod,
pholaoul,ll.l of tho kit..t on roc oid. So iong at the old
earta is equal tu tilorm. of tole kind We need not mind Is
better euil WOOL, toe blood leavei the cold extremities
arid toe Wart li.• not rigour en.S/4111 tO .0111 It 1.0 the
surface, tail end ia uot ter cod ; sod when volcanic
and eerthqdete 01•4111e5ta4411. COLN from utf In., face
of the urota, toe end Indy be within Memel meteor.
Mole dietetic.. Much of its ocean moolor will
have been absorbed by the underlying rocks, and
the atmosphere in., be rarer and lees hleiaiving than it
I, now ; by and by. Wan the I wit ray of internal heat. the
beet drop of weter the beet particle 01 sir, .11 life will have
•anialaied, and • deed &wilt weil shine upon a deal mood.
Sy long. wee, as the =Atter of ue all has soy vigour left,
we intuit expect her to manifieet it oxesionelly es she has
done recentay at Ischia and Jaye; er that, Liggett-able and
regiettebe es hes been the kW 01 lire at tees,, plecioe, the
ceteacrophes are not entirely without their blight aide.
Only wh the earth is as dead ea the moon will such
c•taitrophes beciome imposmble. Geteltiglits and imiausolo•
mew know pretty well toe lines along which theme maul.
fdetetioas oh the earta's vigour are likely to occur; lines
of weskits. Illey call them, but in view of the ale me con.
sidermiocui we might call them. rather. lines of vigour.
Perhaps when they knew still more taey may bie able to
tell their fellows what piecee to avoid in planting their
settlements end bulling th.oir house.. But it la doubtful ,
it such tolling would be of mucte avail. After the most
dmtructive outbursts of Etas and Vesuvius the decimated
Inhabitants have crept bock to their old location*, reboilt
their hut., sad planted their vine. heedless of the terrible
leSeol4ll. Already bee building begun swain •olia in
shattered 'table, and if the proper kind of wooden house
bo used poseib4 the next shaking the Leland gets may
load to fewer 0
We have said that the Jaya outburst is the mod
stupendous on record. An Island has been shattered and
sunk and sixteen others have relied their heads above VA
surrounding waters Some huadred thousand !people
have beta seoridoed to their ceother's rumor, buried
beneath volcanic albite, or swept off the face of the lend
by the VOltinnin wave. Toe fixer of the mese over • aide
area tattle south-oast of Sumatra has bean relied into •

plain above the waters, and the etfects—orti-e-te—n-e-re:l
upheaval have been felt as far as the American oast of
t. Pacido. There CID be little doubt that the wave which
was felt along the west coast of North America we.
propasted acmes the Pacific from the Java outbreak.
AU underneath the Island we know must be
the seat of the most energetic volcanic activity,
and there can be little doubt that the ocean door must
have been subject to • sudden upheaval over tour
mile% giving nate to an 41.111anie disturbance it..
has spread across the Pacific, and was doubtless
felt all around Australia an New Z aland. As we have
already pointed ou the tat greet manifestation of the
kind, °allay 10, Ufa, had its amain on the Peruvian oasat
whence • wave wria Prataileted on to the Sonde/all Islands
on one side, and to New Zealand land Australia on the
other. Stall more dreadful and widespread were the
result' of the earth-throe in the neighbourhood of the
Pacific oast on August 13-14, MB. On that °amnion,
00 minutes after an earthquake shock was felt at Arica,
Peru, an enormous wave, 50 feet high, swept in Over the
shore. This wave travelied southwards, sweeping the
coast as far as Valdiria, which it reached in five hours
Northwards it travelled also, and some boors later
reached San Pedro, in Lower Glalifornia, as • wave at.
in height Bofolll that—seven hours, indeed, after it
WM felt at Arica—Use wave touched the Sandwich
Wands, and rose and fell in such • manner all round the
Islands that it seemed as if they themselves were actually
in motion. Altout the same tma the Marquess. lolanda
felt the force of the shock, and later still Yokohama. in
J wan, was reached by the roll itl water.. 1.. to tk th •
wave ten holm to make N tie Zealan I, an I at Interv,st
for hours the shores of the eolcny were cos.- i.l y a or•
maestro sweeps; while it was nearly 14 h I. fore it
win first detected on the Australian cast. Not lees
p tan. cm hove been the uphiav .1 in the water.
around Java; and when full details reach us, it
will be found that its ii.floencas have been nit less
widespread. Volcanic debris Lave been found all
over the bed of the ocean ; and although lime of it.
douhtlosa, hal been contributed by th volcanoes of the
land, much of it may come from volcanic outlets deep
down below the water.. Toe earth, Mr. George
Darwin tells us. is never at root; it is in a °met int st ite
of teem ir, and aladute steadln-se is watt ausble.
Thine con be hale doubt, alas, that there are volcattic
outbursts and eertim.take upheavals wh'ch are either
never known to no at all or only by their remote results
in such farm as eirthquake waves p•opogated over the
avian. Profess tr Milne, of Japan, we believe, go a even
further than Ur. George D arwin, not maiutsins that in
the Wett Paclec. at least, the earth belie. the •ut fare I.
hoseycornhed with eavitiee, and that earthquakes there
are Of Almon monentary occurrence. A delic it
soismomet w is agitated whoa to human sensation not the
ernallett sign of earthquake is evident. All these an
signs that. old as our earth is, eh, is still full of vigour ;
though 100.000 lives are • terrible p.c. to pry for the
asurence that else Is still alive. It is site, 400 years since
any equally powerful 'Maims. of the force ol nature was
ad trued in Sleep., when, in the 15. h century, what is
now known as Monte No aro wa• throwa up in • nights
lime to a height of over Mt.—Times.