This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...the fiery sun, The rolling vapors, and the deep'ning storm! Egyptian blackness shrouds the morning skies, And raking whirlwinds run their wild career! Eed bolts leap thick from clouds surcharg'd with death! Loud herald thunders ring the nations' knell, And earth " gives signs of woe that all is lost." The deaf'ning ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...the fiery sun, The rolling vapors, and the deep'ning storm! Egyptian blackness shrouds the morning skies, And raking whirlwinds run their wild career! Eed bolts leap thick from clouds surcharg'd with death! Loud herald thunders ring the nations' knell, And earth " gives signs of woe that all is lost." The deaf'ning clarion of the world-wide storm Awakes the angry deep. Then, palsy-struck, The shudd'ring globe upon its axis halts; And hoary ocean, restless in his bed, And Lot disgorging from his molten deeps Whole cataracts of fire, he madly spouts The boiling seas to drench th' astouish'd skies. Vesuvins too makes battle with the deep, And flood and fire contend for mastery. Tomboro, thund'ring till his roar is heard Three hundred leagues, confronts the ocean-shock; And, like a boa scotch'd and nursing wrath, In forked fury shoots out tongues of fire. Fierce Hecla frowns, and from his crater rolls Portentous smoke in volumes through the air; But feels his lurid throne profoundly quake, As revolutionary waves--asleep For twenty centuries at his rock-bound base--O'erleap his bulwarks and ascend his heights. A volcanic mountain in Sumbawa, one of the islands of the Grecian Archipelago, from which one of the most fearful eruptions recorded in history took place, commencing on the 5th of April, 1815, and continuing until July following; the explosions being heard to the distance of 960 geographical miles in one direction and 720 in the opposite; overwhelming the island with blazing lava, volcanic tufa and ashes, leaving only 20 survivors out of a population of 12,000, and disgorging from its crater solid material enough to form a globe six miles in diameter. At a word from His lips, and a glance from His eye, Fled the dark howling tempest in silence to...
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