Show Volcano on St. St Vincent Vincent Vin Vin- cent Island B. B W. W I. I in inActive inActive Active Eruption and Barbadoes Barbadoes Bar Bar- Is Cowered Covered With i Dust From the Lava WHEN POMPEII WAS DESTROYED Suddenly as ag Glaucus spoke the place became lighted with an n Intense and nd lurid glare Bright a and d gigantic through the darkness which closed around it like th the walls wails of hell the mountain shone shone shone-a a pile of off f fire Its summit seemed seemed riven in two or rather above its surface surface there there f seemed to rise two monster monster shapes each confronting ng each as Demone Demons contending for a. a World Th These These were were of one deep red blood-red hue of fire which lighted up the whole whole atmosphere here far and wide but below the nether part of the mountain w was s still and dark and shrouded save I in three places which flowed serpentine and irregular rivers of the molten lava Darkly red through ugh the profound gloom of their banks they flowed slowly on as toward the devoted city Over the broadest t there seemed to spring a a cragged and stupendous arch from which as from the jaws of hell g 1 g h the sources of the sudden And through the stilled air was was' heard the rattling of the fragments of ro rock k hurtling one upon another as they were borne down the fiery cataracts darkening for one instant the spot where they f fell ll and f suffused the next in the burnished burnish d hues hue's of f the flood along which they floated f The slaves shrieked aloud and cowering hid their faces The f Egyptian him himself stood trans to the spot the glow lighting up his commanding features and je jeweled je robes lobes High behind him rose a atall atall tall column that supported the bronze statue of Augustus and the Im 4 penal image seemed changed to a shape of fire fire-F FROM fire FROM l 01 BULWER'S S LAST DAY DAYS OF POMPEII 4 |