"The sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, …"

"England, we love thee better than we know— And this I learned, when after wanderings long ’Mid people of another stoc…"

"Seven weeks of sea, and twice seven days of storm Upon the huge Atlantic, and once more We ride into still water and …"

"Therefore farewell, ye hills, and ye, ye envineyarded ruins! Therefore farewell, ye walls, palaces, pillars, and dome…"

"Our villa, perhaps, you never have seen; It lies on the slope of the Alban hill; Lifting its white face, sunny and st…"

"The sacred Mount, Crowned with the citadel of Latin Jove, Hangs o’er Alba’s Lake, and o’er the towers Older than Rome…"

"There are several ways of performing Tas'id, (a rising up) in the (the sublimatory apparatus), and the substances whi…"

"The natural principles in the mines are mercury and sulphur. All metals and minerals whereof there be sundry and dive…"

"If you prudently desire to make our elixir, you must extract it from a mineral root. For as Geber saith, you must obt…"

"Volcanic ash, despite the name, is dense as rock and can cause significant damage to structures, power lines and comm…"