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.”

Aurora Borealis

3 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Aurora Borealis

This is an aspect of the Aurora Borealis sometimes observed in Scotland. The view embraces a portion of Loch Leven, with the island and the…

Curiosities:- Aurora Borealis

of any such phenomenon, either at home or abroad. In 170%, Mr. Neve observed one of small continuance in Ireland; and in the same year, a…

Curiosities Respecting Galvanism

"Nature, exhaustles still, has power to warm, And every change presents a novel charm."

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