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 Earthquakes

4 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Curiosities Respecting Earthquakes

Oft shake the astonish'd isles; the Solfaterre Or sends forth thick, blue, suffocating steams, Or shoots to temporary flames. A din, Wild…

Effects of an Earthquake

The engraving represents the great earthquake of 1755, in which the city of Lisbon, in Portugal, was entirely destroyed, and 20,000 persons…

Simoom, or Hot Wind of Egypt

Multitudes, fugitive on ev'ry side, And fugitive in vain. The sylvan scene Migrates uplifted; and, with all its soil, Alighting on far…

Remarkable Winds in Egypt

EGYPT is infested with the destructive blasts common to all warm countries which have deserts in their neighbourhood. These have been…

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