Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — Made Desolate by Winds. [ARTICLE]

Made Desolate by Winds.

Between 'Formosa and the coaat of China lies a group of twenty-one' Islands, interspersed with innumerable reefs and ledges, which are called the Pescadores Islands. According to the investigations of a Japanese geologist, these islands have suffered In a remarkable manner from the northeast winds, which blow with savage violence there during nine months of the year. The original area of the Islands has been greatly reduced By eroßlon, and their surfaces are barren and desolate, so that the Wind-whipped group forms “a quasi-desert amidst the green Island world of southeastern Asia.”