Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . perceived the shores shake—insisting that they had repeatedly heardthe earth tremble. Hitherto, however,nothing remarkable had been perceived,and the following day they continuedtheir monoto
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . perceived the shores shake—insisting that they had repeatedly heardthe earth tremble. Hitherto, however,nothing remarkable had been perceived,and the following day they continuedtheir monotonous voyage in those vast sol-itudes. The weather was oppressivelyhot; the air misty, still and dull; andthough the sun was visible, like animmense and glowing ball of copper, hisraj-s hardly shed more than a mournfultwilight on the surface of the drew nigh, and with it someindications of what was passing aroundthem became evident, for they ever andanon heard a rushing sound and violentsplash, and finally saw large portions ofthe shore tearing away from tlie laud andlapsing into the watery abyss. An eye-witness says: It was a startling scene—one could have heard a pin drop ondeck. The crew spoke but little; theynoticed, too, that the comet, for some timevisible in the heavens, had suddenly dis-a])peared, and every one on board wasthunderstruck. 220 OUR FIRST CENTURY.— .•rKM-. «l 1 HI. li(^l AKl: IN THE WEST. The second day after leaving tlie YellowBunks, the sun rose over the forests, thesame dim ball of fire, and the air was thick,heavy, and oppressive, as before. Theportentous signs of this terrible naturalconvulsion increased. Alarmed and con-fused, the pilot affirmed he was lost—ashe found the channel ever^where altered;and where he had hitherto known deepwater, there lay numberless trees withtheir roots upward. Tlie trees that stillremained were seen waving and noddingon the, banks, without a wind. Theadventurers had of co
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