Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 137
ds carry up with it innumerable particles of thesoils through which it passes. In five minutes we had seen, handled, and smeltenough to satisfy us with this very odd and very nastyvagary of tropic nature; and as we did not wish to be-come faint and ill between the sulphureted hydrogenand the blaze… … A STALAGMITE CAVE (From the Voyage of the Challengeb.)Bt sir C. WYVILLE THOMSON, KT., LL.D., bto. THINK the PaintersVale cave is the prettiestof the whole. The open-ing is not very large. Itis an arch over a greatI mass of debris forming a steep slope into the cave, as if part/A of the roof of the…
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