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Excerpt from The World on Fire: Including Splendors and Horrors of the Volcanic Eruptions of the Lesser Antilles, Together With a Biographical Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French, the Fair Daughter of Martinique
The marvelous energies of Krakatoa, whose thunders were heard across Indian Ocean, and twenty-five hundred miles away, While' the l'urid vapor discharged reddened the skies for months, as the. Mighty waters rolled, have been surpassed in the islands of the Caribs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
