The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Crater, by James Fenimore Cooper
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The Crater;
Or,
Vulcan's Peak.
A Tale of the Pacific.
By J. Fenimore Cooper.
"Thus arise
Races of living things, glorious in strength
And perish, as the quickening breath of God
Fills them, or is withdrawn."—Bryant.