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floods: to this spot all eyes were directed. The fiery river would fll 
over it in an hour; as yet it was distant from it seventy yards per 
radually it rose in height and swelled out tts vast proporuons, and 
vant masses fell off and goes forward ; then it swelled again as po, 
matter came pressing down ind, ne so it broke, and on it rolled 
again and again till it had peste at the very edge. There was a gen- — 
eral buzz and murmur of voices. aee royal family stood opposite to 
me oe with the crowd looking on with —_ anxiety. 
a we small lum mps fell down; then poured over a pure > lige of metal — 
like thick treacle, clinging sometimes mass to mass, from its glutinous " 
character, and last of all tumbled over gigantic lumps of scoria. Then — 
on it moved once more in its silent regular course, swelling up and 
2. road, the — had-all been ordered off, and the bridge 
ken were cut off completely. The sentinels 
verted from the sen of St. sede Massa di 
Pollena, which stand on either side and have as yet only ed pi 
tially. Cercolo, through which, however, the stream is rolling will be 
sacrificed. The expectation is that the lava, should the eruption con 
is literally seamed = lava and many fear a violemi explosion as the 
final scene of the tragedy. 
Manual of Elementary Geology, or The Ancient Changes of ihe 
Earth and its Inhabitants as illustrated by geological records ; by Sit 
Cuartes Lyetz, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 5th edit. greatly sslre - 
illustrated with 750 woodcuts. Bost Little, Brown & Co. 
tended investigations of the author the various re- 
kearehes ee yor geologists. It is the ablest nnd 2p 8 work of the 
kind in the English language ee 
The edition jseued by Mowers . Little, Brown & Co., is the English $i 
edition, and not a reprint, gon therefore all the perfections of the orl 
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6. Fossils of South Cerslisis ba Prof. M. Tuomey and Prof. F. 8. 
— a Charleston, 8. C.—No. 2 of this elegant work has just 
