Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 422
of fire. What is the cause of this period of inaction ?The steam has been exhausted, and a period ofeight or ten years or more may elapse beforethe earth can again have absorbed sufficientwater to make steam enough for sending outthe lava. We are now ready to speak of the earth-quakes, and… … A VESSEL LEFT FAR INLAND AFTER AN EARTHyiAKE-WAVE.(SEE PAGE 892.) Naples. It was nearly ten oclock on a Satur-day night. The weeks work was done. Thefishermen had drawn up their boats on thebeach, and were in their homes. Hundreds Soo of picturesque hotels and cottages nestledpeacefully amid the…
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