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quiet passage of a bright and lively flame, shel- 

 tered from the wind. The edges, or exterior 

 coat of these funnels, reddened by the fire, so as 

 to be blended in colour with the flame, to which 

 they served as conduits, and which was not at 

 first perceptible, produced that effect of light of 

 which I have endeavoured to describe the first 

 appearance. When the stones or wood which 

 had been thrown towards these burning mouths, 

 reached them, then their coats, breaking and 

 falling into the flame, agitated the fire, causing 

 ejections of a reddish hue, to a height and of a 

 volume proportioned to the derangement caused 

 in the furnace ; exactly as it occurs, on a small 

 scale, in the furnace of a blacksmith, when he 

 stirs the fire. 



cc If the pieces of the trunks of trees, thrown 

 on these funnels, were not carried into the fire, 

 with the crust of the apertures, they would in- 

 stantly be seen to take fire, or be immediately 

 reduced to charcoal. 



* c In other places, towards the top of the hill 

 where I stood, and more within my view, the fire 

 likewise appeared in all its force, but under a dif- 

 ferent aspect, and otherwise varied and repeated. 



" Generally the trace is distinguished by a 

 light, accompanied by a flame, fluttering from 

 time to time on the surface, from a prodigious 



