The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-07-12

or the groaning of The troubled earth be.
meath.
So impressive wa3 thissccuc that felt
| strange chill creeping through me, and
| shouted to break the horrible stiffness which
was more awe.inspjring than the thunders
OF a thousand Niagaras. frequently found
myself imagining that was dreaming, and
| was only assured Ivy piuchmg my limbs
/ or couvcrsiug with my guide,
| Drawing my blanket around mo to shell
| ter me from the chilling atmosphere, and
| carefully puucturiug The ground with my
/ Sharp.ponted stick before me, to make
sure of my footsteps began TO pick my
way over piles and heaps Of lawn, and pit
! falls and patches OF ice and snow, my guide
Keeping near me- and often warning me
| whom he Imagined my footsteps were lead.
| irg me into danger.
| Occasionally struck the fragments OF
/ lava that rolled down behiud me, and as
! yet discovered no signs ot the crater, which
/ eighty years before, had vomittd forth its
| tremendous volume OF melted black sand.
| At length, however. reached the summit,
and looked down into a sort of basin open
| at the lower side, and having several deep
seams or chasms, in the Couter, into which
| the melted snow or ice on its sides were
running in small streams.
! A repulsivo odor, in the shape Of thin,
| smoky vapor, came up, and tancied heard
! . distant runlbling noise, that sounded far
| down in the earth.
turned to my guide and was about to
speak, when observed he was trembling,
and pale as death,
What's the mattcr2" | asked "you
socm to be irighteued.'
"Oh, my God :" he gasped there's go.
! inv 4, bn oppth h4r pOrruDttpu "
How do you know that? Have you
ever been there hcforo?'
"Ge9i Tut | never saw it look this,
When was here last there was no hollow
thcr', but u level piece oI snow and ice.
indeed exclaimed with Intense in,
terest and you Judge that f.et t., be dc.
ciSive with regard to an cru ptloH?
Oh, my master" said he, IN the greatest
agony, what else coul / have caused this
change There must be IRE brlow or
what has melted this shc'cr2 You see
the ice is nearly gone, and what is Ieta Is
fast melting, aud will soon follow IT.
| observed at this poid that my feet had
a sensation Of warmth, and stooping down
louud tha ground quite hot.
How Is this 7? inquired.
lie shook his mead.
" All wrong, there's trouble brewing,
master, as sure as you live. .lcu bad bet
ter leave"
recalled tue Tact that the last eruption
OF iliecla occurred elEhty years before, iohS
previous to the BIRTH OF my guide, ana con
scquently, he could kpow as little OF that
rs did. TlIs foolish thought prevented
me from putting the faith in bis words
that ought to have done.
= here is NO hurry ! replied i have
been oIo' x GiinlnEmY WY ~ iae t7n. thHt
am hardly d.apA7ed to l,ny' u,dH hNe
seen lpQte o. luu NulcaHo.
observed o'H N'iercaS a"! ifambbng ~
c'eaa,d, possible, but iie'l ar,lnc 'anc'
@Nat ro l-u'mnloaoN olrr touiuS 50
anl 10 make tine summit!
lie stood a moment IN silence, and then
veulnled AGAIN;
" Let us go whue iherc Is Tune am
AFRAID to rtmain here. We may be over
powered at any moment
" Hold on. said sensible ci curious
iascnaton, such as somejImeS comes over
one when on the brink OF the most appal
in; pclil. II il true, the ice has melted,
but 1t has doue SO very gradually. have
spent a eat dtnI OF my tma to SEQ Ice
land, aud when started 1t was with the
resolve to SEQ llocIa."
Heaven knowsl have seen toomucA al
ready he replied; more than las ever
been seen hy any living man
How do you know dat ? demanded
somewhat annoyed at the dogmatioal man-
ner OF my guide.