Signora come e Signora perché, o, Prime lezioni in terra lore per i bambini . intera montagna cadde in e fu inghiottita con un rumore come se il supercannone fosse sparato. Quaranta villaggi e nearly3000 persone sono stati distrutti, e dove la montagna era stata solo una pianura di pietre rosse-calde. In modo estesante, nell'anno 1698, la cima di una montagna di Quito cadde in una sola notte, lasciando solo due cime im-mense di roccia dietro, e versando grandi inondazioni di fango mescolato con pesci morti; per lì i laghi sotterranei tra quei voleanos che swarmwith poco pesce che non vedono mai la luce. Ma la maggior parte volea

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Madam How and Lady Why; or, First lessons in earth lore for children . whole mountainfell in and was swallowed up with a noise as if greatcannon were being fired. Forty villages and nearly3000 people were destroyed, and where the mountainhad been was only a plain of red-hot stones. In thesame way, in the year 1698, the top of a mountain inQuito fell in in a single night, leaving only two im-mense peaks of rock behind, and pouring out greatfloods of mud mixed with dead fish; for there areunderground lakes among those voleanos which swarmwith little fish which never see the light. But most voleanos, as I say, are, or have been, the VOLOANOS 57 shape of the one which you see here. This is Cotopaxi, in Quito, more than 19, 000 feet in height. All thosesloping sides are made of cinders and ashes, bracedtogether, I suppose, by bars of solid lava-stone inside, which prevent the whole from crumbling down. Theupper part, you see, is white with snow, as far down asa line which is 15, 000 feet above the sea; for themountain is in the tropics, close to the equator, and. ^^ the snow will not lie in that hot climate any lowerdown. But now and then the snow melts off andrushes down the mountain side in floods of water andof mud, and the cindery cone of Cotopaxi stands outblack and dreadful against the clear blue sky, and thenthe people of that country know what is coming. Themountain is growing so hot inside that it melts off itssnowy covering; and soon it will burst forth withsmoke and steam, and red-hot stones and earthquakes, which will shake the ground, and roars that will beheard, it may be, hundreds of miles away. 58 MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY chap. And now for the words cone, crater, lava. If Ican make you understand those words, you will seewhy volcanos must be in general of the shape ofCotopaxi. Cone, crater, lava: those words make up the alphabetof volcano learning. The cone is the outside of a hugechimney; the crater is the mouth of it. The lava isthe ore which is being melted i

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