Mushroom Tracts?
On the morning of November 14 the master of" the steamer Chakdina, on voyage from Akyab and Chittagong, Burma, to Rangoon, was amazed to discover that an island, about,00- Ht. squire and oft. high, had suddenly appeared where viously there had been no vestige of rock to break the monotony of the ocean, Reporting his discovery, thy captain said that the island ap peared to be of a rocky: forma tion, and was about eight mile duo' south of Baronga. Point, with w spit running out to. the north, over which the surf could he seen breaking. 4 "This, is not an wnusuial hap pening," said a member of the staff of the Geological Survey and Museum to-day, "Phere have been many. enses reported, and we are convinced many more before records wore made ain) kept "Phe island would be created as the result of some subn volcani¢ disturbance," he added, "all the great volcanic now tains of the world began as: submarine. yoleanoe "A. crater opens on the floor of the ocean, and the escaping Jnsva is heaped up around the opening, until it emerges above the sea surface as an island.
"coland is believed to ha begun way, "and its this fairly "certain that Hawai Vesuvius, Etna, and Santor also originated as ocean-bed di Th most, eases, how-islands' have been quickly demolished and washed away by the action of the waves.
"Sabriua was thrown isi in the Atlantic Ocean: off the Azores, but early the ne: year it had disappeared. ham's Island, in the Mediter-van can, was thrown up in 139). Tt Jnsted four months, and then retired again beneath' the sea, "Bogosloff Island, in the Behring Sea, is an example that has remained. It suddenly exm= into existence in 1705.
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