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 Mines

11 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Curiosities Respecting Mines (II)

Diamond Mine in the Brazils-Mines of Peru-Volcanic Eruptions of Mud and Salt- Pitch Wells-Visit to a Coal- Pit.

Diamond Mine (Being stopped just below)

being stopped, just below the head of the canal, by an embankment formed of several thousand bags of sand. This is a work of considerable…

Curiosities Respecting M Nes

ing for diamonds at this place, is as follows:-A shed is erected in the form of a parallelogram, twenty-five or thirty yards long, and…

Diamond Mine (Weight of carats much ceremony)

of the weight of 174 carats, much ceremony immediately takes place; he is crowned with a wreath of flowers, and carried in procession to…

Mines of Peru

I obtained a mass of pudding-stone, apparently of very recent formation, cemented by ferruginous matter enveloping many grains of gold; and…

Volcanic Eruptions of Mud and Salt

rocks, with a strong spray falling to leeward. The spot was completely surrounded by huts, for the manufacture of salt, and at a distance…

Volcanic Eruptions of Mud and Salt: Bludugs

About thirty yards from the lake stood the mud hillock, which was about fifteen feet high from the level of the earth. The diameter of its…

Visit to a Coal-Pit

are situated about ten miles from the city, and near the shore of the bay, on the southern side of the island. We visited this spot, which…

Curiosities Respecting the Sea (II)

General Observations respecting the Sea, or Ocean-Particular Curiosities of the Sea-On the Saltness of the Sea-On the Tides-Waves stilled…

General Observations Respecting the Sea, or Ocean

The sea, or ocean, is that vast tract of water which encompasses the whole earth. What proportion the superficies of the sea bears to that…

General Observations Respecting the Sea, or Ocean: Adriatic

Dr. Donati, in an Italian work, containing an essay on a natural history of the Adriatic Sea, has related many curious observations on this…

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