The wonders of the world : $b a complete museum, descriptive and pictorial, of the wonderful phenomena and results of nature, science and artAbbott, John Loraine
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The wonders of the world : $b a complete museum, descriptive and pictorial, of the wonderful phenomena and results of nature, science and art
Abbott, John Loraine
Curiosities and wonders
This English mountain, which has an elevation of thirty-five hundred and
thirty feet, or nearly three-fourths of a mile above the level of the
sea, is situated in Cumberland. It is more remarkable on account of the
scenery over which it presides, and which exceeds in beauty whatever the
imagination can paint, than for those bold projections and that rugged
majesty which might be expected, but which will be here sought in vain.
Except at such a distance as smooths the embossed work of all these rich
fabrics, and where its double summit makes it a distinguished object to
mark and characterize a scene, it may be considered as a tame and
inanimate object.
WHARNSIDE.
In some of the maps of Yorkshire, the hight of this mountain is greatly
exaggerated, its elevation above the sea not being more than twenty-five
hundred feet, or nearly half a mile. As it is situated in the midst of a
vast amphitheater of hills, the prospect it affords is diversified with
pleasing objects. On its summit are four or five small lakes, two of
which are about nine hundred feet in length, and nearly the same in
breadth. A thin seam of coal also occurs near the top, and another is
said to correspond with it on the summit of the lofty Colm hill, on the
opposite side of Dent dale. Numerous caves and other natural curiosities
abound here, as well as on Pennigent, about six miles to the eastward of
Ingleborough. These latter mountains do not possess any particular
interest.
STROMBOLI.
Stromboli is the principal of the cluster of small islands, lying to the
north of Sicily, named the Lipari isles, the whole of which contain
volcanoes. At a distance, its form appears to be that of an exact cone,
but on a closer examination it is found to be a mountain having two
summits of different hights, the sides of which have been torn and
shattered by craters. The most elevated summit, inclining to the
south-west, is, agreeably to Spallanzani, about a mile in hight.
In this volcanic mountain, the effects of a constantly active fire are
everywhere visible, heaping up, destroying, changing, and overturning
every instant what itself has produced, and incessantly varying in its
operations. At the distance of one hundred miles, the flames it emits
are visible, whence it has been aptly denominated the light-house of
that part of the Mediterranean sea.
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