Telegram-herald., 1890-06-21

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LrisLs1 easlgn. ald called IL Gr4aas
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Fo-c-1o ia He2Ely hls oau ~orls.
'oeixilg favorable ulomelt se
gave Nay 4ila or s-rs. oar distance
49, rather gre4ter thaa ne could have
y shed, 1gt re psoces1ed as Quickly IS
TIE sea ~oalI 4ll94. As ne aBprlsc hed,
sonle ooc4s.9Eal lels sere thrcsu - tur
% Little c0nsess -elae, III c-rreng As
discovered running % tas ~esE~art.
and setting - farther ~ the right thsn
We desired
within twenty y@sds q the shore.
the water appeared sAssl. 4ld the sea
broke; b4t as there N1s NJ appearance
- sur. ca TIE beach 1s keps stezEily
On ril the boat struck The groaud Tbe
uni0u- jack Ms tbsn planted: such OBJ
seryatt0ns we're made IS the pressure of
etrcgmstznces ant the imminent danger
% : fresh eruption every moment Holl1
admit q, bueketfaI of the lazterials of
which the island seemed chiefly com
p0sed VS. collected, and we rc-em-
barked Tho forul Of the crater Is near
~ perfect circle. and complete along
It's whole circumference. excepting for
about two hundred aud htty yards on
tie southeast side, which arc broken
and low, not apparently above three feet
high.
''rhe height of the highest part sup
posed BY the eye % % about ono hun
dred and eighty feet The outer diam
eter 5, / think. almost six hundred and
forty yards and the inner about four
hundred. The whole circuit OF the
island l conceive 70 DO from mile and
= quarter 20 mile and third. Tho
fragments brought away are compact
and heavy, and the whole surface OF the
Island Is dense and perfectly hard under
the feet No variety Of stones was pro-
cured. nor any lava; neither did / see
en. jets or streams OF lava while on the
Island All the fragments were very
hot whom collected. and | thought tho
temperature OF the sea close % the shore
somewhat higher than farther out, al
though OF this l was not very certain.
The latitude OF the island is thirty
seven degrees eleven minutes north, the
longitude twelve degrees forty-four
minutes east Of Greenwich"
The island went or increasing IN size,
and, according 20 some accounts, was, in
few days, more than two hundred feet
In height and three miles in circumfer-
ence. After attaining this, its maximum
magnitude, II appears 20 have been
gradually reduced by the action OF tho
waves. for on the 25th OF August il was
only two miles round. and on the 30 OF
September IL was no more than three
flfths Of mile in circumference, while
its greatest height did not exceed ono
hundred and seven feet.
IL appears that the volcano matter,
during its election, had found q second
vent at no great distance from the sur
face. for, in tho month OF August, a
great cbullition and agitation of the
sea occurred, accompanied by tho con-
stant ascension OF column OF dense,
light-cOlored steam. By the end of Oc-
tober, not vestige OF the crater re-
mained, and, with the exception OF a
small heap OF sand and scorie. tho
whole island was nearly on level with
the sea In short, It at length entirely
disappeared, and dangerous reef OF oval
shape occupied the submarine site Of
Graham Island.
There are some remarkable facts con-
nected with this phenomenon. About
a fortnight before the eruption was visi-
I bic, Sir Pulteney Malcolm, in passing
over the position Of the volcano 10 his
/ ship experienced several severe shocks,
/ Is II be had struck on . sand bank, and
I which ne attributed to an earthquake.
! The same shocks werc felt on tho west
coast Of Sicily. a circumstance still
/ moro worthy OF notice is that there Is q
/ tradition ~ Malta OF volcano existing
/ on the samc spot about tho commence
/ ment Of the last century; and there is
/ oxtant an old chart OF the Meditcr-
rancan. which lays down shoal with
/ ONLY four fathoms of water on it, and
I called Larmour's Breakers, within q
milo Of tho same latitude and longitude,
Not long before the event took place, a
naval of.ccr, in surveying this part Of
I tho Mediterranean, found a depth oil
more than ono hundred fathoms o'
water on the SPOT. where there is now
only about ten feet
There arc other modern instances o'
tho formation Of islands by submarine
crupt.ons. a. that OF Sabrina in the veal
1911, OF st. Michacls, one of tho grouI
% islands called tho Azores; but no oc
currcnce Of tho kind has attracted 81
much attention or bcen so minutely de
scribcd as tho appearance and disappear
auco OF Graham Island Captain Marvin
Newbold. in y. Y Ledger.