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BOOK OF THE DAMNED
but enormous, substantial things that have smashed down material resistances, and have been seen to plunge into the ocean:
Athenæum, 1848-833:
That at the meeting of the British Association, 1848, Sir W. S. Harris said that he had recorded an account sent to him of a vessel toward which had whirled "two wheels of fire, which the men described as rolling millstones of fire." "When they came near, an awful crash took place: the topmasts were shivered to pieces." It is said that there was a strong sulphurous odor.