Show front from artlia ahu s home gazette mount Ju Jil rollo BY 11 C TALBOTT I 1 in the pro province of michoacan Micho acau in mexico pot not far from the present site of the town of ario ano lay a beautiful plain covered with plantations and well culLi cultivated cullivan vat ed fields oi of indigo nd go and s sugar u ga cane tile the industrious natives makini making r the m most oat of the fine climate and fertile soil c coaxed daxe d from the bountiful bosom of mother earth highly remunerative iett irris for the elie toil bestowed upon their crops here was a picture of rural comfort and happiness not among the aborigines of central america but certainty certainly rarely to be found among those of higher latitudes and herein the indians present a history directly at variance ath that of the in the bracing rigors ofa northern clime auie the industry and enterprise of the latter hear bear the 9 greatest greatest results and the midst of the temperate zones exhibit the best types of the rare race but the file indians have appeared to better advantage when found inhabiting the tropical tropic 11 I 1 re regions eions I 1 in june 1759 the plain to which attention lias has been called was the elie scene of most binary phenomena hollow muri murmurs nurs from the binary depths of the earth came struggling fl faintly up for utterance dreadful tremors stole along the plain and rocked the wood crowned heights I 1 day py by day and night after night increased violence was infused into these symptoms until terrific convulsions shook hill and vale and mighty roa rings reverberated along the sky like the horrible discord of infernal artillery after sixty days of such struggles struggle s a gradual tranquility was restored peace again slept upon the lovely landscape and hope flattered the distress ed and terror stricken people that all danger had passed vain hope on the 1 of depte september abe r fo following the demon of the inner fires was wa s aroused to greater fury horrible bell owings upon the burdened air and the earth rocked as if in death throes the affrighted inhabitants fled in consternation to the adjacent mountains and awe struck gazed spoil upon the scene of these wonders I 1 sudden fissures swallowed up the brooks and s streams baleful fires danced along the ground and sulphurous stench and steam ond vapors escaped in low thunders and awful his sings from the crevices and holes of the swollen and disrupted earth tile the midst p pie he I 1 plain seethed and boiled like melted pitch huge bladder like hills hails were up heaved and burst bursi with thunder zounds sounds discharging great columns ol of steam and smoke hills from hills heights unsheathed heights heigh tsi ls internal in forces puffed up the immense domelike dome 0 like fike mass thrusting it bodily bodilly nearly feie seventeen n teen hundred feet heave heavenward award A tract ot of country of four square miles thus upward thrown from its rock ribbed resting place and underpin underpinned under pinned nid as it were it till army su sustained stained in its new position required a roschan ical fore force cje whose numerical value were not too contemptible forthe for the consideration of an archimedes although the displacement of a world was wai a family thought to him and the production of mount had just this extent no more A mountain i n whose base was four square miles lifted its head higher than arthurs seat beat in england positively sixteen hundred and seven ly feet above its original level and was ranked flanked by numerous hills bills of like origin and of no mean size 1 humboldt hamboldt in the beginning of the present century visited the scene of those wonderful VF V F B lt as th of natives who were twenty years 0 older rd er than w mount gift an and d witnessed its formation the particulars oi of its upheaval a paa al the colca 1 action had h a alye then almost mo t ceased but the mountain yet remain remains rv a striking monument eAt of those awful forces in nl nature a that sleep quiescent under the mild rule irule of physical physic al law until called balled into activity by min him whose everyday every day implements they are |