This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ... military, and naval, were present, and the style of the whole affair was very good, and the kindness and civilities of the Resident and his compatriots to all of us were indiscriminate and abounding. Major Miiller, of the Engineers, gave me some interesting facts regarding the delta of the Kediri. He said that there ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ... military, and naval, were present, and the style of the whole affair was very good, and the kindness and civilities of the Resident and his compatriots to all of us were indiscriminate and abounding. Major Miiller, of the Engineers, gave me some interesting facts regarding the delta of the Kediri. He said that there were many spots like Gonung Sari dispersed about the delta, where marine shells and corals were abundant, a few feet below the surface of the ground. He also told me that they had sunk an artesian well in Sourabaya, hoping to strike down into the Madura limestone, below the alluvial deposits, and procure purer water than that of the river. In this operation, after penetrating through a great thickness of sand and sandy mud, they came down to very fine mud, or clay, which they sank into for ZOO feet, without getting through it, when their tubes collapsed, and the work was abandoned. All this shews plainly that there existed once a clear deep sea, in which grew corals and shells, the former in great numbers; and from their detritus a great mass of limestone was formed. This was partially elevated, so as to form islands, one of which was part of Madura, the others its neighbouring islets, and those which are now united to the land. Into the sea thus shallowed, but still in places several hundred feet deep, the Kediri, after VOL. II. M flowing through the previously or simultaneously formed volcanic district of Malang and Antang and Japan, began to pour its muddy waters- that the finer sediment of these flowed far out, making shoaler all the neighbouring sea, and making a base of more than 200 feet at least in thickness, on which coarser and coarser matters were piled as the delta of the river advanced, and that this process went on till many ...
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