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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: once, of the shape which you see in the drawing opposite; even
those volcanos in the Sandwich Islands, of which you have often
heard, which are now great lakes of boiling fire upon flat downs,
without any cone to them at all. They, I believe, are volcanos
which have fallen in ages ago: just as in Java a whole burning
mountain fell in on the night of the 11th of August, in the year
1772. Then, after a short and terrible earthquake, a bright cloud
suddenly covered the whole mountain. The people who dwelt around
it tried to escape; but before the poor souls could get away the
earth sunk beneath their feet, and the whole mountain fell in and
was swallowed up with a noise as if great cannon were being fired.
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