VOLCANOJ AT NIGHT. 
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will compare with their sublimity at night; their crests are sur¬ 
rounded by a halo of light, the smoke, illumined, crawls slug¬ 
gishly out, and now are seen issuing balls and streams of liquid 
fire, accompanied by a most terrific shock, as if the furies were 
at war within; now a dark cloud floats sluggishly along, but 
now it is looking directly into the crater, and is burnished by 
the internal fires. 
