Measuring Craters -Excitement over First Discoveries-Droll Superstitions-A Most Striking of Optical Splendors-Auroral Arc-Streams of Light Shooting Up- ward-Trembling Gleams and Flashes- 'The Merry Dancers"-Lights of Rain- bow Colors--What Parry and Franklin Saw -The Heavens in Gay Attire-Lieu- tenant Chappell's Auroral Umbrella--Arch of Silvery Light-The Canopy Glow- ing with Splendid Scenery-Polar Night-Six Months without a Sun-Animals Dying of Gloom –Dazzling Standards Unfurled-Magnetism-Fiery Tempests in the Sun-Magnetic Stones on Earth-Outbreak of Auroral Magnificence-Sir John Herschel's Conclusions-The Jerking Needle-Reference by Aristotle- Northern Lights more Common than formerly in the Northern Zon、 s............826 Optical Phenomenon at Buffalo-Topmasts Rising out of the Water-Deceitful Fog Bank-Extraordinary · Fata Morgana' in Sicily-A Spectacle that Excites the Populace-Ascribing the Mirage to the Devil -Prophecy Concerning Elec- tricity-Pri matic Colors of Amazing Beauty-Troops of Clouds in the Sky- Height of Clouds-Poetical Fancies from Ossian-Mist on the Water-Ac- counting for Vapors-What Colors the Sun-The Great Orb Shorn of His Glories-Why the Sun is Red at Rising and Setting - Remarkable Halos- Strange Mock Suns-Parhelia-Historic Halos-What Gassendi Saw-Parhelia Observed by Hevelius-Beautiful Sky Picture in Tennessee-Perfection of Creative Skill-Phenomena of Light -Wonderful Waves and Circles-Light a Magnificent Painter-Innumerable Vibrations................ STRANGE WANDERERS THROUGH SPACE. Sudden Appearances-Unusual Phenomena-Great History of the Heavens-Bodies Governed by Solar Attraction-Elongated Orbits—Marvelous Comet of 1680- Period Estimated at Three Thousand Years-Thousands of Miles in a Minute- Sir Isaac Newton's Prediction-Halley's Comet-A Frightened Emperor- Shocking Calamities Supposed to be Foreshadowed-Visitation During a Bloody War-Hideous Faces and Bristling Hair-Byron's Graphic Description—Sub- stance of Comets-Thin Vapor-A Comet Enveloping Jupiter-The Poet Con- Former Belief in Astrology-Strange Fancies-Olaus Magnus and his Absurdities— Droll Description of the Great Sea Serpent-The Monster Attacking a Ship- Statement by a Bishop-Cooking a Meal on the Back of a Leviathan-Legendary History of Trees and Plants-Trees Bearing Water-Birds-Story of a Marvelous Tree in Scotland –Belief of Scientific Men in Ridiculous Fabies-Queer Light- ning Rod-Charlatans and Greenhorns-Roots of the Mandragora Carved into Fantastic Shapes-Life Preserver of Gods and Animals-Alarming Eclipses..857 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Animals that Inhabit Tropical Countries Thor, the Giant-God of the Scandinavians Combat with Kircher's Winged Dragon. The Primeval Forest from which our Coal-Beds were Formed Enormous Extinct Animals-the Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus Fossil Skeleton of the Pterodactyl The Ramphoryncus or Creeping Bird Immense Pre-Historic Animals-the Iguanodon and Megalosaurus Gigantic Skeleton of the Mammoth in the Museum at St. Petersburg Footprints of a Bird Footprints of a Bird and Impression of Rain Drops. Chalk under the Microscope Fossil Remains in Chalk. The Flying Dragon The Immense Dinotherium A Drop of Water as seen under the Microscope Extinct Animals, the Skeletons of which are Found in Solid Rocks A Massive Antediluvian Animal-the Megalosaurus The Curious Pterodactyl, or Wing-Fingered Bird The Ponderous Iguanodon The Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus in Mortal Combat Frontispiece. . 30 33 35 37 39 40 41 44 45 47 50 50 50 52 53 · 55 . 61 63 65 67 72 74. 76 78 80 81. 82 83 85 86 88 93 95 97 - 98 100 Ancient Animals in the Thames Valley Destruction of Messina . Fissures Produced by an Earthquake Terrible Eruption of the Hawaiian Volcano-Mauna Loa Volcano of Taal Luzon-Philippines Flames Bursting from the Crater of Stromboli Volcano under the Ocean near the Azore Islands Volcanic Eruption at Graham's Island Chimney Composed of Prisms of Basalt-St. Helena Birth of a Volcanic Island . An Araucanian Marriage Fijian Canoe in a Stiff Breeze An Illanoan Pirate and Saghai Dyak An Exciting Indian Ball Game The Old Arab Attacking the Hippopotamus The Puma or American Tiger Grizzly Bear and its Prey Terrible Encounter with a Rhinoceros The Curious Gavial of India Flying Dragon and Flying Frog Hunting a Ferocious Tiger The Hippopotamus or Gigantic River-Horse "Obaysch"-First Hippopotamus Transported to Europe The Jungle Bear of Southern Asia. The Common Porcupine of Canada Armadillo Rolled Up and Erect Natives of South Africa Capturing an Elephant Baldwin Chased by an Elephant Infuriated Rhinoceros Charging on Hunters An Exciting Chase A Herd of Cattle Attacked by an Immense African Lion Peccary or Stag Hog Elian's Wart-Hog Great African Panther and Cubs Seals in their Native Haunts The World-Renowned Gorilla Asiatic Orang-Outang Portrait of the Orang-Outang Guereza, with Beautiful Flying Mantle Lion Monkeys Stealing Cocoanuts The Flag Night-Swallow Specimens of the Esculent Swallow and Edible Nest The Sappho Humming-Bird . Immense Nests of African Social Grossbeaks Nest of the Tailor Bird. Three-Toed Woodpecker The Pelican. Marie Delex Seized and Carried Away by an Immense Eagle · Fish-Eagle with Brood of Young Crested Crane and Virgin Crane Asiatic Flamingo The Sacred Ibis The Strange Shoe-Bill Snow Owl and Screech Owl. Sharp-Billed Darter or Snake Bird Giant Salamander Famous Egyptian Crocodile Ravenous Boa-Constrictor Swallowing a Fowl Tree-Snake Devouring its Prey PAGE • 369 370 • 371 · 372 374 • 381 • 383 • 384 · 387 • 389 · 393 397 • 399 402 • 407 • • 409 410 412 . |
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