The tongue of time, and star of the states : a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth ... also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who took colors by the touch (1838)
Comstock, Joseph · New York : [s.n.] · leaf 159
ethinner part of the board, were changed into agate, should thelike changes be found to have taken place in those ancient cities,we might be able to deduce some data as to the chronology ofother remains in other places; the time that these cities wereburied being very well known to have occurred A.… … Herculaneum and Pompeii both being first covered over byan immense shower of ashes, which fell on the roofs of the build- THE TONGUE OF TIME. 155 ings, several inches in depth. These were thrown out at the cra-ter of Mount Vesuvius. After this eruption of ashes, followed aneruption of lava, melted…
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