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 Mountains

26 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Curiosities Respecting Mountains (II)

Natural Description of Mountains-The Peak in Derbyshire- Snowden in Wales-Skiddaw in Cumberland.

Natural Description of Mountains

ALMOST all the tops of the highest mountains are bare and pointed; which proceeds from their being continually assaulted by storms and…

Peak in Derbyshire (That time in utter darkness)

that time in utter darkness, and under a bed of some hundreds of feet deep, yet they were providentially taken out alive; the weight of the…

Peak in Derbyshire (After we had wandered here)

"After we had wandered here more than an hour, as beneath a dark and dusky sky, on a level sandy soil, the rock gradually lowered itself…

Snowden in Wales

when the dawn began to appear, they covered the moon, and we saw her no more. We proceeded by a very easy ascent over boggy ground till…

The Andes (Which lake is far distant)

which lake is far distant from the sea, and high above its level from this circumstance. Skiddaw is reckoned the highest mountain in…

Chap. XXXIX

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MOUNTAINS.-(Continued.) The Andes-Pichinca-Monte Bolea-Pausilipo-Monte Nuovo -Spectre of the Broken-Gauts, or Indian…

The Andes

THE Andes is a great chain of mountains in South America, which, running from the most northern part of Peru, to the Straits of Magellan…

The Andes: Quito

Their common food in this inhospitable region was a little rice boiled with some flesh or fowl, procured from Quito; and, instead of fluid…

The Andes: Verona

MONTE BOLEA. - This is a hill or mount in the neighbourhood of Verona, in the north of Italy, celebrated for the uncommon abundance and…

The Pausilipo

different origin and nature. Its greater proportion is.composed of an aggregation of organic remains, and seems a cemetery of shells…

The Gaunts, or Indian Appenines

the landlord of the Broken, and having both put ourselves in the same position I had taken alone, we looked towards the Achtermannshöhe…

Written Mountains, Mountains of Inscriptions

or JIBBEL EL MOKATTEB. - This is a mountain, or chain of mountains, said to be in the wilderness of Sinai; and the marble, of which it is…

Mount Aihos

erect, and others lying flat; and "the more carefully they are examined, (says he,) the more certainly do they appear to be sepulchral…

Sulphur Mountains, in the Island of Iceland

"Having taken an early breakfast, (says he,) we set out towards the Sulphur Mountain, which is about three miles distant from Krisuvik. At…

Sulphur Mountains

from accidentally plunging one of his legs into the hot clay. "From whatever spot the sulphur was removed, steam instantly escaped; and in…

Volcanic Mountains

The fluid lake that works below, Bitumen, sulphur, salt, and iron scum, Heaves up its boiling tide. The lab'ring mount Is torn with…

Volcanic Mountains: Vesuvius

VESUVIUS, -is a celebrated volcano of Italy, six miles east of Naples. This mountain has two tops; one only of one only of which goes by…

Volcanic Mountains: Pompeii

The first eruption recorded in history, took place in the year 79; at which time the two cities of Pompeii and Hercu- 79; at which time the…

Volcanic Mountains: Somma

The heat, all this day, was intolerable at the towns of Somma and Ottaiano; and was sensibly felt at Palma and Lauri, which are much…

Volcanic Mountains: Ottaiano

Nothing could be more dismal than the appearance of Ottaiano after this eruption. Many of the houses were unroofed, and some lay half…

Volcanic Mountains: Torre

In the year 1794, there was a very tremendous eruption, and the mischief done was very considerable: the lava covered and totally destroyed…

Volcanic Mountains: Fahrenheit

The cold began now to be very intense; Fahrenheit's thermometer, which at the foot of the mountain was at fifty-four, now fell to…

Volcanic Mountains: Etna

The mountain seems to be made up, not of lava, but of sand, grit, and ashes; which are thrown up with discoloured stones, partly melted by…

Grotto in South Africa

all probability, to that degree as to render the earth, for a vast space around them, perfectly uninhabitable. In one word, so beneficial…

Chap. XLII

Grotto in South Africa-Grotto del Cani-Grotto of Antiparos -Grotto of Guacharo-Snow Grotto-Cave of Fingal-Cave near Mexico-The Nitre Caves…

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