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Volcanic Eruption in the South Seas.

The Rev. Dr. Turner, a missionary, in a letter
dated Samoa, or Navigator's Islands, South Pacific,
Nov. 29, 1866, says :—" On the 7th of September
last the natives of Tau and Osolenga were surprised
by an unusual succession of earthquakes—there
would be three and four
.in the course of an hour.
During the night. of the 911 there were in all 39
shocks. There was only a slight tremulous motion,
but its continuance, together with an unusual sub-.
terranean groaning,' as the natives called it,
alarmed everybody. They knew nothing of volcanic.
action in the group from petsonal experience or the
traditions of their ancestors. Their islands, how-
ever, are all volcanic. On the 12th of September,
a little after noon, a commotion was observed in the
deep blue sea, about a mile and a half from Olo-
senga, and three and a half from Tau. It appeared
like surf breaking over a sunken rock. Some
thought it might be a whale blowing, and others
that it was a shoal of bonito. This unusual corn-
' motion continued all day, and by the following
morning at daylight volcanic action was unmistak-
able. At first the eruptions were at intervals of
about an hour. They went on increasing for two
days, and on the 15th they weresoin the hour. For 3
days longer there was one continued succession of out-
bursts. The natives gazed in amazement at the great
jets of mud and dense columns of other volanic matter
rising in terrific grandeur 2,000 feet above the
level of the sea. These again branched out into
cluuds of dust blackening the sky, and covering up
Olosenga from the sight of the people on Tau. The
roar of the eruptions, and the collision and crash of
the masses of rock„ met in their downward course
from the clouds by others flying up, were fearful.
Quantities of fused obsidian, too, threw off the most
lovely fragments, which shone and sparkled in the
sunshine like thousands of pendants from a crystal
gasalier. No flame appeared, and only once or
twice was there a gleam of fire seen in the !natter
thrown up. The sea was most violently agitated,
and boiled and bubbled furiously in a great basin
half a wile in diameter. After a time, the ocean
had a light sulphur tinge for ten miles round. Heaps
of dyad fish were washed ashore, and among them
deep-sea uionsters, six and twelve feet long, which
the Datives have never seen before, and for which
they have no name. The sulphurous vapours, heat,
and smoke, and ashes soon made the settlement ot
Olosenga a line with the volcano unbearable,
and the people fled to a place a little to the south.
A slight tremulous motion continued to be felt on
land, but no fissures opened, nor have any hot
springs made their appearance. The ordinary
springs. of fresh water are also unaffected. After
three days the violent action began to abate, and
on the 11th of November, when the teacher froni
whonithaVe my information_ left, there were only
three or four in the 12 hours, and the height to
ch,
which* the matter was thrown was reduced to 20 or
30 feet iboVe theleVel of the sea. No cone or other
uplifting has appeared above- the surface of the
ocean, nor is there any apparent uplifting or subsi-
dence of the adjacent small
Olosenga still continues, and from a tremulous agi-
tation has become more of a sudden jerk. A
suspi-
cious shaking has commenced
_on the east side of
Tau, but on the west side,
only sixwilesdistant all
is Still," •

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