A beautiful dazzling of the (But the internal fires which sprung from the vitals of the earth almost supplied the want of a nocturnal luminary. It is probable that there were but few spots on the globe which were out of view of some flaming volcano. We count the active volcanoes by integers. When we have enumerated Etna, Vesuvius, Hecla, Joule, Colima, and one or two others, we have reached the end of our list. In the days of Homer the volcanoes were counted by scores in the carboniferous age they may have, must have, flourished by hundreds and thousands. That vast incandescent mass, of which the crust only had cooled, kept boiling up every few hours, and furiously pouring out the vials of its wrath upon an earth inhabited by transitory creatures. Go where the traveler may, he will still find traces of this terrible age. That tell-tale rock—"the trap"—is peculiar to no meridian and from the Hudson's Bay territories nearly to Cape Magellan, from Spitzbergen to Borneo, either this, or some mountain range of volcanic origin, here with scoria disseminated through the more regular formations, there with copper or gold held in a native state in half-decayed quartz:1.3), by (Kay Nielsen and Wayne Barlowe:0.8), (Byzantine mosaic and Impasto:0.8), (painting:0.3) | Painting