'"*(2)
* In Iceland, 1783.
*(2) "During the eruption of Hecla, in 1766, clouds of this kind
produced such a degree of darkness that, at Glaumba, which is more
than fifty leagues from the mountain, people could only find their way
by groping. During the eruption of Vesuvius, in 1794, at Caserta, four
leagues distant, people could only walk by the light of torches. On
the first of May, 1812, a cloud of volcanic ashes and sand, coming
from a volcano in the island of St. Vincent, covered the whole of
Barbadoes, spreading over it so intense a darkness that, at mid-day,
in the open air, one could not perceive the trees or other objects
near him, or even a white handkerchief placed at the distance of six
inches from the eye."- Murray, p. 215, Phil. edit.
"Hum!" said the king.
"'After quitting this coast, the beast continued his voyage until we
met with a land in which the nature of things seemed reversed- for
we here saw a great lake, at the bottom of which, more than a
hundred feet beneath the surface of the water, there flourished in
full leaf a forest of tall and luxuriant trees.
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