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Title: True story of the Martinique and St. Vincent calamities ... including an account of the destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum and accounts of all the most noted volcanic eruptions
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, John Randolph. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Volcanoes
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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iesTold by Witnesses of the Deadly Explosion . ... 157 CHAPTER VII. Narratives of Personal Experiences.—Tourist PortraysMont Pelee. — Stormy History of Martinique. —Graphic Letter from a Consuls Wife. — Great Dis-asters from Volcanic Eruptions. — Scenes in theStricken Islands 179 CHAPTER VIII. St. Vincent Volcano in Active Eruption.—Terrific Can-nonade Heard One Hundred Miles Away. — Kings-town Showered with Hot Ashes and Pebbles . . . 203 CHAPTER IX. For Weeks Mont Pelee Belched Clouds of Smoke.—Splen-did and Appalling Phenomenon.—Incessant Roar ofAwful Thunder.—Terrors Paralyze the HelplessInhabitants < ... 221 CHAPTER X. New Horrors Revealed Daily.— Mont Pelee Again inActive Eruption.—Rivers and Lakes Dried Up.—Hiss-ing Pits of Lava.—Physical Changes Made by theOutbreaks 239 CHAPTER XL Ship Tossed by Giant Waves Without a Breath ofWind. — Story of the Captain of a Danish Vessel.Long Hours of Terror Endured by the Crew.—Wreck of the Ship Roddam 264
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