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ABOUT a year ago NATURE printed my letter from Cairo giving a condensed account of an examination of the Mountain of the Bell (Jebel Nagous) on the Gulf of Suez, and of the acoustic phenomenon from which it is named. In continuation of my researches on sonorous sand, which are conducted jointly with Dr. Alexis A. Julien, of New York, I have now visited the so-called “barking sands” on the island of Kauai. These are mentioned in the works of several travellers (Bates, Frink, Bird, Nordhoff, and others), and have a world-wide fame as a natural curiosity; but the printed accounts are rather meagre in details and show their authors to have been unacquainted with similar phenomena elsewhere.
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BOLTON, H. The “Barking Sands” of the Hawaiian Islands. Nature 42, 389–390 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042389e0
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