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but enormous, substantial things that have smashed down material 

 resistances, and have been seen to plunge into the ocean: 



Athenceum, 1848-833: 



That at the meeting of the British Association, 1848, Sir W. S. 

 Harris said that he had recorded an account sent to him of a vessel 

 toward which had whirled "two wheels of fire, which the men 

 described as rolling millstones of fire." "When they came near, an 

 awful crash took place: the topmasts were shivered to pieces." It 

 is said that there was a strong sulphurous odor. 



