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The gallery of nature and art; or, a tour through creation and science. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanoes, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature. Forming a rich and comprehensive view of all that is interesting and curious in every part of the habitable world. By the Rev. E. Polehampton, and John M. Good, F.R.S. Illustrated by one hundred engravings / [Edward Thomas William Polehampton].

Polehampton, Edward (Edward Thomas William), 1777?-1830.

Date:: 1821

Credit: The gallery of nature and art; or, a tour through creation and science. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanoes, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature. Forming a rich and comprehensive view of all that is interesting and curious in every part of the habitable world. By the Rev. E. Polehampton, and John M. Good, F.R.S. Illustrated by one hundred engravings / [Edward Thomas William Polehampton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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5399, so that it must have lost 190 yards; and indeed the people in the vicinity say, that they have seen its summit crumble away be- fore their eyes. During our stay at Riobancha, we accidentally made a very curious discovery. ‘The state of the province of Quito, previous to its conquest by the Inca Tupaynpangi, in 1470, is wholly unknown : but the king of the Indians, Leandro Zapla, who resides at Lican, and has a mind extraordinarily cultivated for an Indian, possesses manuscripts composed by one of his ancestors, in the sixteenth century, which contain the history of that period. They are written in the Paraguay tongue, which was formerly general in Quito, but is now lost, having been supplanted by the Inca. Fortunately another of Zapla’s ancestors amused himself by translating these memoirs into Spanish. We have obtained from them valuable information, particularly in the memorable period of the eruption of Nevado del Atlas, which must have been the highest mountain in the world, loftier than Chimboraco, and cated by the Indians Capa-urca, or chief of mountains. [Bouguer. Estalla. Humboldt.] SECTION III. Volcanic Phenomena in the West Indies. ALTHOUGH active volcanoes are by no means common in the islands distinguished by the name of the West Indies, there are few of them that do not betray some traces either of a volcanic origin or of volcanic effects. The Caribees are particularly characterised by such features, and especially Martinique, Guadaloupe, and St. Lucia. The mountain-soil of the first of these consists, to a very considerable extent, of pumice, either in lumps or powder, occa- sionally intermixed with a ferruginous sand, which is not unfre- quently a volcanic production. On the island of St. Lucie, or St. Lucia, are some high and craggy mountains, which bear evident marks of volcanoes; in one deep valley there are several ponds, the water of which boils up in a very powerful manner, and the streams that issue from it retain their heat at the distance of three miles from their source. The mountains of Guadaloupe are, according to De Borda, not less lofty than those of Martinique, and the Souffriére or Sulphur

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