This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...I fell with legs so wide apart that all the hillside followed. Its cobbles pelted on my back as I slid downward. I'll strike a light and see if we have host to wel come lodgers." Then he struck light and to the wick of a short candle placed it; and as it kindled into blaze he held it high above his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...I fell with legs so wide apart that all the hillside followed. Its cobbles pelted on my back as I slid downward. I'll strike a light and see if we have host to wel come lodgers." Then he struck light and to the wick of a short candle placed it; and as it kindled into blaze he held it high above his head and in the light it gave the two men sought with earnest eyes the nature of the place, and whether it were home or grave. It was an old-time cave. Home had it been and grave, for those whose deeds and death are prehistoric. In ages lost to memory of men, man had been there before. Fleeing from sudden heat that blasted, or dreadful cold succeeding heat, or from that awful monster bursting out Many tribes of Red Men have among them the legend of a great catastrophe caused by a comet striking the earth. The story or myth of a " flying dragon, breathing fire and smoke," is found in all old literatures, and always connected with a vast ruin wrought on the earth. There is no reason, in the nature of things, why a collision should not occur between the earth and one of the many " monstrous and lawless wanderers of the skies." Nor is it inconceivable that such a collision in the remote past did occur. Assuming this to be true, many remarkable and now mysterious phenomena on the earth's surface could be easily explained. Kepler declared that " comets are scattered through the heavens with as much profusion as fishes in the ocean." Lalande had a list of seven hundred comets observed in his time. Arago estimated that the comets belonging to the of distance into northern sky, nigh where the steadfast star now sentinels the heavens, and breathing fires in volume wider than the world, rushed, tearing downward toward...
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