Show ISLA ISLANDS DS or VOLCANIC ORIGIN anim i sinco since the of june 1831 an island suc acs dively graced aced with the names of ferdinan Fei dinan gialias Gia liam ll Ilo othan thai nelita and julia has several times appe appealed lied and disappeared off palermo and ig id nov on oil the point of getting bettio 0 abobo water again 1 I is no doubt that thal this curious phenomenon is attributable to volcanic agency nor is this tho only instance orthe of the kind on mccoid in tile neighborhood of the phillippi 1 ne islands Island sand and on other points of tile the chinese waters small islands occasionally rise and make their exit again without attracting much notice of this the palis pa patrie relates the following curious instance A german skipper capt who had passed many years of his life in those parts and know every shoal and sandbank within a dundr hundred d milea lit of the chinese coast suddenly about twenty years ago di discover scovel ed an island which lie was perfectly certain did not exist on that spot before ile ho took his soundings debei mined the latitude and longitude sailed all it and found that it was aiom 12 to 15 I 1 5 I 1 miles iles in length 0 arid and breadth there several springs s of fi biesh esh water on it and it consisted of the richest 0 grounds rounds imaginable capt Hil macher i instantly list antly to eusope a number of german emigrants 0 bought all kinds of seeds seed s agricultural 0 implements poultry arid and cattle attle c and set out again for this new eldorado arid and iu in a couple of years there might have been seen on the desmit island villa village c ge fields waving with coin meadows peopled with oxen goats and sheep everything in short that might constitute a thriving thi iving colony this happy state of things 0 lasted about five years when a british mci chant vessel made its appearance tile the captain arid and crew expressed their astonishment ment at finding finding a Euro european peah community in in such an out of the way place entered into an amicable inter couise with the alic colonists arid and gave them a quantity of brandy in exchange C tor for their pio produce duce this unfortunate circumstance proved the ruin of the colony drunkenness grew into a habit insubordination was the couse consequence and one fine day poor captain Ifil macher who had hitherto ruled his hia little kingdom with 0 cicat gica wisdom wai was obliged 0 to make his escape iu in a boat to avoid being murdered 1 ile he succeeded in reaching a vessel which took him home again t lio ho easily obtained I 1 conicia command n d of a ship which lie he took caie to with plenty of at aims ins forthe for the purpose of atin punishing ishin 0 hi hid s urn uly subjects and making 11 them repent of their ingratitude ho set sail but on arriving within tho latitude where liis his island had once existed edhe he was astonished to find tile place empty not a vesti vestige 0 c of land wa was s to be seen scon the island had gono gone as it had come had tho the catastrophe occurred so suddenly its as to preclude all possibility of escape this is what captain Hil macher never lealua |