The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-05-07

c'AeE sil4i T Interval, bad u0aIfaliza6
c1tf other lh6 anats where ihe81 fcse1I1
clnncpd 10 r as Iho nomentf tssrinE lru
Che nafrcw straits into TIE oceans tls Snt
west lhc1a Immense wtxes ssasi1a III 30
thc1E l11ueY tucnd the globe, and lrqN ihr
Ieeqias Of the tide EnaEes which arr now ceu-
inE %, we have mqei remarkable tale en-
iulaea pu the aiferuocn 81 ne Sans dsF hai
thr eresgef q them stcr. away lha Jaraa
villages. tie EndalaIi11s well 7tEistalsd uu-
risiakahIg ia Mnufiina, the SegchsiitA in
South Africa, and on Tie shores 81 tie Pacific
Islands. bui &c Mr.. fsorEycT informs as, they
did nof yaniEh there, hrt proc1slcI pnWafda
end crcssing each other Oh the aniipoies Of
krakAiau, iouTngyCd back to the spot whence
they had emnnaled. and his they ihrg did nu
fewer than feur times hnicr1 lhr 1aniI ihrinm
81 The ZEE WIS restored 81 far as 10 10 ins1nsi-
BE 10 our Instruments. While the tide ruarez
have accorded their story, The delicele fingers
Of the barymetrical registers Of the world have
also berno urinfuencsd Testimony al a similar
kind The blow which hurled such mass q
matter into iha air, which originated hnrri-
cane there and caused tie baremeicrs II he
neighbCfliOod Of The volcano 70 rise ana fall
with unparalleled rapidly and vessel distant
500 miles q iremtie, started an Atmospheric
wave also round the globe. twas frat 1etrc-
ted N The New registers we believs,by General
Slracllpy, who has nov examined large num-
Der Of paragraphs, from which he has been
able 70 * TIC dates at which The atmospheric
undplatious passed various places % 7he
earih's surface. AZ IN tie sea, So Ia tie air.
tEo waves, one % The east and one to the west,
started from kxakatan, whose rate Of progress
has besn foEnd 70 be that Of sound. one sur
prisiug circumstance, Of which we have as yet
observed 20 explanation, is bow those ships
which we're near Che volcano at the moment Of
the supreme explosions, Of the cuormity Of
which they seem not to have been coguizant,
notwithstanding that they were beard al such
immense distances, did not only no. sutes from
the concasslon, but were hot blown cd The face
Of the waller altogether Almost c9incideut
with the record OF the abnormal atmospheric
fluctuations, magnificent sunlight effects. uu-
usuallyslund skies, prolonged dauus, leHgth-
eued tWilights and green or blue oT uosH-iise
SUNS began 10 DO obscred. From The dates at
which these phenomena first appeare b diff
fercnt parts q The world-on the cast coast Of
Africa on the second day, the Gold Coas. 0u
tho tbild, Trinidad on the sixth day ai 200
miles in the Pacific west ST Panama On tie
seventh, and at Honolulu on the ninth day Is
can BE seen that the volcanic cloud followed a
straight path
10 what height the supreme outbursi pro-
PEELED the smoke, dust, and the lighter portion
Of mailer. i is impossible at present to 'esti-
mate Mr.. Nhymper saw Cotopaxi. in by nj
means one Of its extraordinary exnirations
eject column over 10000 feet in height; but
many multiples Of this distance will doubtless
be required 10 measure the spire that was shot
sky-ward on the forenoon Of the 9th of Au-
gust last. At all events il rose SO high that
mouths have been required for II 70 descend
Those places situated below the direct vest
ward path Of the cloud, which would be ele-
waited al FIRST as narrow column, ne they were
carried under Il BY the eastward rotation Oh
the earth, were the FIRST to have the usual light
Of the sun changed into ominous displays OF
delightful afieTglowa, varying in intensity ae-
cording 10 their time distance away, and there
fore 70 the amount Of the obslructing dust,
which would also cOndense moisture IN tie
upper part Of the air, and give special ABSORB
ton effects, that had by the hour they weT,
reached subsidized from the atmosphere TLis
narrow band gradually spreading ont nortl
and south enabled the inhabitants Of all land,
to obtain a view Of the gorgeous effects u
broken and absorbed sunbeams, and demon
straiion Of the ynstness Of the power Of impris-
uned steam.
Many questions connected with the subjec
remain at present unexplained; but The difficult
ties will in great part disappear before ON
fuller information. A committee Of the Royal
Society, consisting Of our highest authosliet
IN meteorological, volcanic, and light pbenom-
ena, has, as we have have said, been appointed
to fully investigate tie subject, and from .iheii
lshors we shall by-and-by be in possession d
the fret really accurate and acientifc examin-
alton Of the effects Of volcanic erupiionsy which
IN this case bidsiikely to result to meieoro-
logical science at least, in a gain whose in-
mense importance il is impossible nov 10 cali
cHlate. Nor is il unlikely THAI this "biggosi
terrestrial experiment" afforded VS. by Mature
may ultimately prove TO have been not ihs
losst Of Der benefcenl gilG to humanity.
Monthly Record ef Geography.