CHAPTER XXII.

OTHER GREAT ERUPTIONS.

Destruction of Sodom--Arguments--The pitch lake of Trinidad--Ætna: eruption of 1669--Thousands perish--Catania destroyed--Other outbreaks--Iceland: Mt. Hecla--Tremendous eruption of Skaptar Jokul--One-fifth of the people perish--Millions of cubic yards of lava--Disturbances in the sea--Jorullo: a mountain made in a night--Fearful outburst of Sumbawa--Twenty-six people out of twelve thousand escape--Explosions heard nine hundred miles--Other Malaysian volcanoes--Geysers--Terrible eruption of Cosequina--Heard one thousand miles--Eruptions in South America--Force required to send out lava--In the Sandwich Islands--Krakatoa: the greatest eruption in history--A chorus of volcanoes--Awful destruction--Perceived around the world--Unparalleled sea wave 440