The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chap. Lxxxvi

MISCELLANEOUS CURIOSITIES. - (Continued.) Extraordinary Echoes, and Whispering Places-Natural Produc tions resembling Artificial Compositions-Remarkable Lamps. -Perpetual Fire-Magical Drum-An Extraordinary Cannon. Curious Account of Old Bread-Substitute for Spectacles-Winter Sleep of Animals and Plants.

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