Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 335
any yearsor centuries — time does notcount for much in theseTertiary days— the flowof melted lava ceased.Its surface cooled, leav-ing a high, uneven plain,black and desolate, ahard, cold crust over a fiery and smoldering interior.About the crater lay great ropes and rolls of the slowlyhardening… … u It Would Hiss and Boil High inTHE Air. The Story of a Strange Land 305 and brooks had long since vanished in steam, the fisheswere all dead, and the birds had flown away. Thewhole region wore the aspect of the desolation of death. But to let land go to waste is no part of MotherNatures plan. So…
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