Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1898 — New Island Off Borneo. [ARTICLE]

New Island Off Borneo.

A sensation has been created in the Straits Settlements and the far East by the sudden appearance of a new island off the coast of Borneo, between Nemtakol and Lumbldan. The island is 45 feet higb*« third of a mile long, and a quarter of a mile wide. For the most part tlie island is merely an upheaval of the bottom of the sea, but at its highest point there is a distinct mud crater, with the cone-Ahaped top and sides fallen in. The sides of the cone give evidence of having been forced up through a crevice In solid rock. The British North Borneo Herald says the cone, which is thirty yards in diameter, is surrounded by another and larger cone, which shows that with more pressure from beneath a much larger crater would have been formed. The rising of the island was not accompanied by any volcanic disturbance. Tlie crater is seamed with crevices and cracks which emit gases. By applying a torch to a small crack in the crater the gas Ignites and burns steadily.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.