The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-12-27

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Passing beyond this last islsnd, we
renched q country where there was . cavo
that ran TO the distance Of thirty or forty
miles within the bowels Of the earth, and
that contained greater number. Of Ear
more spacious and moro magnificent pala-
ces than are 70 be found in Ill Damascus and
Bagdad. From the roof Of these palaces
there hung myriads Of gems, like diamonds,
but larger than men; and ia among the
streets oftowers and pyramids and temples,
there flowed immense rivers as black as
ebony and swarming with fish that had 40
eyes.'t .ss..s.
HUM said the king
We then swan into region Of the sen
where We found lofty mountain, down
whose sides there streamed melted metal.
some Of which were twelve miles wide and
sixty miles long;| while from an abyss
on the summit, issued so vast quantity Of
ashes that The sun was entirely blotted out
from the heavens, and it became darker
than the darkest midnight; so that, when
we were at the distance ola hundred and
fifty miles from the mountain, il was impos-
sibIe 10 see the wbitest object, however
close We held Il to our eyes,
sHum T snid The king.
after quitting this coast, the beast con-
tinued bis voyage until wo met with . land
in which the nsture ofthe things seemed re-
versed--for NO here saw great lake, at
the bottom Of which, more than . hundred
feet beneath the surface Of the water, there
fiourished in foil leaf forest Of tall and
luxuriant trces.'* 80
'Hoo! enid the king.
proceeding still in the samc direction,
we presently arrived at the most magnifi-
cent region III the whole world. Through
it there mcandered glorious river for sew
cral thousands of miles. This river was Of
unspeakable depth, and Of a transparency
richer than that Of amber. It was from
three to six miles in width; and it's banks,
which arose on either side 10 twelve hun
dred feet in perpendicular height, were
crowned with ever blossoming trees, and
perpetual sweet-scentcd flowers that made
The whole territory one gorge, rus garden
but the name Of this luxuriant land WINS the
Kingdom Of Horror, aud to enter It was in
evitable death.'t
Hump! said the king.
I'VE left this kingdom in great haste.
and after some days, came TO another, where
we were astonished to perceive myriads Of
monstrous animals with horns resembling
scythes upon their heads. These hidcous
beasts dig for themselves vast caverns in
the soil, Of a fhnnel shape, and line the
sides Of them with rocks, so disposed one
upon the other that they fall INSTANTLY, when
trodden upon by other animals, thus precip-
itating them into the monsters den, where
their blood is Immediately sucked, and their
carcasses afierward hurled contemptuously
out 10 an immense distance from the cav
ems Of DEATH
Pooh !! said the king.
Continuing our progress, we perceived
district aboundiug with vegetables that
grew not upon any soil but in the air.'T
There were others that fprang from the
substance ofother vegetables" others that
derived their sustenance from the bodies Of
living animals;t and then, again, there
ory riiaction.'-fKennedy. This account,
At first discredited, has since been corroborafed
by the discovery of completely petrified forest
| near the head.wa OF the Cheyenne, or Chen
ne river, which has its source in the Black Hills
Of the Rocky chain.
tThe Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky.
lin Iceland, 1893.
4sDuring the eruption of Hecla, in 1866, clouds
Of thi. kind produced such degree Of darkness
that. al Glanmbs, which il more than fifty leagues
from the mountain, people could only tnd their
way by cropping. During the eruption OF Vesasl-
us. 1894, at Casera, four leagues distant, people
could only walk by the light Of torches. On the
first Of May, 1912, q cloud OF volcanic ashes and
sand, coming from volcano in the island OF ST.
Vincent, covered the whole Of Barbados, spread
ing over il 50 intense darkness that, 81 midday,
il the open air, could not perceive the trees OF
other objects near him, or even white handker-
chief placed at the distance of six inches from
the eye.'-[ Murray p. 2i5 fhu ed's.
ssIn the wear 1890, in the Caracas, during an
earthquake. portion Of the granite soil sank and
len lake eight hundred yards In diameter, and
| from eighty to I hundred feet deep. II was .
part OF the forest Of Arirao which sank, and the
trees remained green for several months under
water'-[ Murray, P. 22i.
+The region OF the Niger. Zee Sinsmond's
sColonidl Magasine.'
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ster' 10 equally applicable to small abnormal
things as 10 great, while snch epithets . vast
are merely comparative. The cavern oflhe myr'
melon Is vast in comparison with the hole OF the
common red ant. A grain Of slick il, also,
sfock.' 9P4
TsThe Epidendron, F7os .Aeri., Of the family Of
the Orchidea, grows with merely the surface o.
its roots attached to tree, or other object, from
which il derives no misunderstanding a.
together upon airc
&Ihs Raraate., such as the wonderful Rog'e"d
.ar,aldii.
| tSetouv advocates class Of plants that grow
upon living snimais--the Hanlc Emsoc. Oithis
class are the F"ci and Aga.
M. y. b. Williams, Of Salem, Mass sented
the IN National Instituted with an insect from New
Zealand, with the following description: - IN,
Hotse,' decided caterpillar, or worm, is found