The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 24
One of the most famous nature giants is the power ofsteam as seen, for instance, in volcanoes like Mount Vesu-vius. Ocean water finds its way, through fissures in thesea-bottom, down into the heated caverns, and is there con-verted into steam, which escapes through the crater of thevolcano,…
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