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.”

Curiosities Respecting Burning Springs

4 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Curiosities Respecting Burning Springs (II)

Naphtha Springs-Burning Springs in Kentucky-Hot Springs of Iceland-Hot Springs of Ouachitta-Other Burning Springs "Adored Artificer! what…

Burning Spring in Kentucky

dark gray colour, very unpleasant to the smell, but used in lamps by the poorer sort. There are also springs of black naphtha, which is…

Hot Springs of Iceland

"About a mile further down, at the foot of the valley, is the Tungahver, an assemblage of springs the most extraordinary, perhaps, in the…

Various Burning Springs

respect from those below. A dense fog continually hangs over the springs and upon the side of the hill, which at a distance looks like a…

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