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.”

General Observations

3 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Curiosities Respecting Earthqakes

this northern coast, which is composed of mica-slate, built their huts on a motionless earth; a gulf three or four thousand fathoms in…

Curiosities Respecting Earthqakes: Caraccas

The following is an account of an Earthquake of Caraccas; by M. Palacio Faxar: :- M.

Earthquake of Caraccas

of their Redeemer, that this sad catastrophe had happened. The weather was fine, and the air serene, when between four and five P. M. a…

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