Chambers's Pocket Miscellany
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ISBN13: 9780217189378
Paperback|9780217189378
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: maining life, though some palliation of his act was derived from the confession, under promise of safety, of one of Thirdpart's associates. Bat, in truth, few in those days blamed Sir William for Thirdpart's death; and the king, in honouring the knight with new heraldic bearings, even made him take the allusive device of a ' hand with a pole- axe, ' with the motto 'Periissemni periissem;' in English, ' I should have perished, had I not gone through with it, ' or 'had I not made another perish.' To this day, the Anstruthers bear these arms; and it is also said that the coat in which Fisher Willie went to Stirling was preserved, up till within these few years, at the modern family seat ofElie House. It was an ample garment, and very rich. A thoughtless lady-descendant unluckily cut this relic to pieces. VISIT TO THE VOLCANO OF KIRAUEA. This volcano is situated in the southern part of the island of Owyhee, the largest of the group called the Sandwich Islands. Owyhee, like many of the islands of the Pacific, is of volcanic origin. Vast streams of lava have since flowed over the greater part of it?some of these have rolled on for thirty and more miles, and then precipitated themselves over the cliff's into the sea?and so late as the year 1800, a single current from one of the large craters filled up an extensive bay, twenty miles in length, and formed the present coast. The recent lava is quite bare, without even a blade of grass, while the more ancient has become decomposed, and is covered with the most luxuriant vegetation. The scenery of the island is sublime: some of the mountains are from 15,000 to 18,000 feet above the level of the sea. The following account of a visit to the great volcano has been drawn up for Professor Silliman, from the statements of two American captai...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217189378 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217189377 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $21.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 276 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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