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KASTHaUAKiS. 
dharcoal, or cudgels reduced to the state of a cinder, - 
peti'ified. They are black and chesnnt-browii ; 
fortunately so decayed, tliat under each of them, sj" ^ 
in glass cases, a quantity of dust and detached 
may be perceived. Their characters are legible in ^ # 
light only, by a gloss and relief which distingui.sl' 
or rather black paint, from the tinder. Cut, 
Tini'' 'j 
crumbled on the edge, and caked by the sap remi 
rato^’it 
the leaves of the papyrus, they require in the opd'^' 
sagacity to meet the variety of the injuries they 
...netyor me injuries uic/ - 
ceived j since, in gluing rashly the more delicate P 
might reach the heart of a volume, while workinS •' 
injuries 
; first, it appeared almost impracticable , ^ 
dlable of them ; but to the industry 
outside. At 
decipher a syllable ot them ; but to the iiiaustry 
of man nothing is impossible, and his curiosity in'r 
to tlie most ingenious inventions. 
As the preservation of the subterraneous ciba* . 
laneiira and Pompeii was owin 
dreadful eruption of Vesuvius in 
to a natural cnu.se, 
the sevcnty-niiitb jut'v 
Christian era, the details relative to these cities, and 
ing results to which their discoverv has led, have been jjii' 
isider» 
among the class of natural wonders now under con; 
EARTHQUAKES. 
“ He looketh on the earth, and it iretiilleih 
the hills, and they smoke" 
he 
lef 
1 rfl"* 
Towers, temples, palaces, 
Flung from their deep foundations, roof on 
Crushed horrible, and pile on pile o’erturndh j^),l 
Fall total. 
The globe around earth’s hollow .surface shak*'’ 
And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons. 
O’er devastation we blind revels keep ; a 
Whose buried towns support the dancer’s I'C 
A 
That fires to a very great extent, and produced dj 
causes, exist at different depths beneath the 
. t_ _ !J A. A... Al knVR ^ 
earth, musv be evident to those who have 
perused what has been given under the head of 
