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Desmond, luxuriating in his comfortable stall puffed at his cigar and fell into a pleasant reverie. He was contrasting the ghastly nightmare of mud and horrors from which he had only just emerged with the scene of elegance, of civilization; around him. Suddenly, his attention became riveted on the stage. The atmosphere of the theatre had changed.
"Hooroo! capting," shouted Larry, jumping up with delight; "mind yer fut, capting, dear; don't come in." "Why not?" inquired the captain, as he lifted the curtain. "Sure, it's no use tellin' ye now!" said Larry, as Captain Bunting fell head-foremost into Ah-wow's arms, and drove that worthy creature as he himself would have said "stern-foremost" into the mud and water at the bottom.
"Great quantities of ice, covered with mud, rock, and stone, presented themselves at the edge of the barrier, in close proximity of the land; from these our specimens were obtained, and were quite as numerous as could have been gathered from the rocks themselves.
The plain was simply a swamp, with several lakes and ponds, and we sank everywhere in mud and water. All our bedding and clothes were soaked to such an extent that it really made no difference where we halted, so we pitched our little tent on the bank of a stream intersecting a valley to the north.
Houston and "Aunt Dinah" had taken the timely precaution to hide the China ware in the tan vats and the pewter-ware in the mud immediately beneath the pole over which it was necessary to walk in conveying provisions to Captain Houston in his place of concealment.
The next subdivision of the Upper Ludlow consists of grey calcareous sandstone, or very commonly a micaceous stone, decomposing into soft mud, and contains, besides the shells mentioned above, Lingula cornea, Orthis orbicularis, a round variety of O. elegantula, Modiolopsis platyphylla, Grammysia cingulata, all characteristic of the Upper Ludlow.
We had kept the lead going from the first, and I was surprised at the extreme shallowness of the lake in every part, as we never had six feet upon the line. Its bottom was one of black mud, and weeds of enormous length were floating on its surface, detached by the late gales, and which, from the shallowness of the lake, got constantly entangled with our rudder.
You've dragged us all through the mud made us a shame and a scandal proud people. You can go the further off, the better. I dismiss you and I never want to see your face again." "Don't worry you never shall. God's my judge, I'd sooner sweep a crossing than come to you for anything. I know you well enough. You always meant to do this.
It was another gloomy alley into which they descended, and the darkness about him and the mud underfoot struck Dawson with a sense of being again in familiar surroundings. The woman's hand slid into his as he stood, and they started along again together. The alley seemed to be better frequented than that of which he already had experience.
Fortunately the inhabitants succeeded in making their escape, so that no lives were lost. A second eruption of this mountain however, in January 1864, was more disastrous, three hundred and fifty people having perished. Java likewise contains a remarkable mud volcano.
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