Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . and the cindery cone of the volcano stands out blackand dreadful against the clear blue sky, and then thepeople 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 with smokeand steam, and red-hot stones and earthquakes, whichwill shake the ground, and roars that will be heard, itmay be, hundreds of miles away. VOLCANOES 247 And now for the words cone, crater, lava. If I canmake yon understand those words, yon will see whyvolcanoes, in general, mus
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . and the cindery cone of the volcano stands out blackand dreadful against the clear blue sky, and then thepeople 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 with smokeand steam, and red-hot stones and earthquakes, whichwill shake the ground, and roars that will be heard, itmay be, hundreds of miles away. VOLCANOES 247 And now for the words cone, crater, lava. If I canmake yon understand those words, yon will see whyvolcanoes, in general, must be of the same shape asthe one in the picture opposite. Cone, crater, lava: those words make np the alpha-bet of volcano learning. The cone is the outside of ahuge chimney. The crater is the mouth of it. Thelava is the ore which is being melted in the furnacebelow, that it may flow out over the surface of the oldland, and make new land instead. And where is the furnace itself? Who can tellthat? Under the roots of the mountains, under thedepths of the se
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