The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 186
can again have absorbed sufficient waterto make steam enough for sending out the lava. We are now ready to speak of the earthquakes,and discover, so far as we may, how they arecaused and what they are. I have already men-tioned the dreadful earthquake of July, 1883, thatoccurred upon the little… … A VESSEL LEFT FAR INLAND AFTER THE PASSING OFAN EARTHQUAKE WAVE. Hundreds of picturesque hotels and cottages nes-tled peacefully amid the tropical foliage. Thehotels were thronged with visitors, and the thea-ter was crowded. Suddenly a tremendous shock was felt, and asound heard like the thundering…
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