so strange and sudden a modification, that the eye of the mo

ed and rose to a height hitherto un

ned as though the whole framework of the globe were ruptured; that the waters roare

ence of the Northern Lights, overspread the firmament, a

one instant emptied of its waters, wa

moon's disc reached a magnitude as though it were bu

stronomy, now appeared suddenly in the firmament, though it were

produced a cataclysm so tremendous

uld have survived the convulsion? and if so,