Chapter XV

SUBTERRANEAN HEAT--ITS POWERS ILLUSTRATED BY VOLCANOS.

Effects of subterranean Heat in the present Age of the World--Vast
Accumulations of solid Matter from the Eruptions of Volcanos--Buried
Cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum--Curious
Relics of Roman Life--Monte Nuovo--Eruption of Jorullo in
the Province of Mexico--Sumbawa in the Indian Archipelago--Volcanos
in Iceland--Mountain Mass of Etna the Product of
Volcanic Eruptions--Volcanic Islands--In the Atlantic--in the
Mediterranean--Santorin in the Grecian Archipelago, 244