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THE following note may be perhaps of interest for the readers of NATURE. March 2.—The Volcano Roeang, near Tagoelanda, the most southern of the Sangi Islands in the North of Celebes, began to make noises. March 5th.—In the evening, at seven o'clock, a frightful eruption took place; three minutes afterwards a large sea-wave reached the shore of Tagoelanda, about one mile distant from Roeang, and destroyed three villages with 416 men. The mountain worked till March 14, with a heavier final eruption. March 30.—I was at the place and ascended the volcano, which is, according to my measurement, about 2,100 feet high. To proceed into the crater was impossible in consequence of the thick damps of sulphur.
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MEYER, A. Volcano near Celebes. Nature 4, 286 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004286a0
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