The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In

by Sir John Lubbock

Yet, though we cannot connect volcanic action with the central heat of the earth, but must regard it as a minor and local manifestation of force, volcanoes still remain among the grandest, most awful, and at the same time most magnificent spectacles which the earth can afford.

FOOTNOTES:

[38] Ruskin.

[39] The Glaciers of the Alps.

[40] Ossian.

[41] Bullar, Azores.

[42] Tennyson.

[43] See especially Heim's great work, Unt. ü. d. Mechanismus der Gebirgsbildung.

[44] In the last 150 years more than 1000 are recorded.

[45] Letters from High Latitudes.