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be but the force of air, makes a strange havock where it comes; but devouring flames, or exhalations set on fire, have still a far greater violence, and carry more terror along with them. Thunder and earthquake are the sons of fire, and we know nothing in all nature more impetuous or more irresistibly destructive than these two. And accordingly in this last war of the elements, we may be sure they will bear their parts, and do great execution in the several regions of the world. Earthquakes and subterraneous eruptions will tear the body and bowels of the earth, and thunders and convulsive motions of the air rend the skies. The waters of the sea will boil and struggle with streams of sulphur that run into them, which will make them fume and smoke, and roar beyond all storms and tempests; and these noises of the sea will be answered again from the land, by falling rocks and mountains. This is a small part of the disorders of that day.

But it is not possible from any station, to have a full prospect of this last scene of the earth, for it is a mixture of fire and darkness. This new temple is filled with smoke, while it is consecrating, and none can enter into it. But I am apt to think, if we could look down upon this burning world, from above the clouds, and have a full view of it in all its parts, we should think it a lively representation of hell itself. For fire and darkness are the two chief things by which that state, or that place uses to be described; and they are both here mingled together, with all other ingredients that make that tophet that is prepared of old. Here are lakes of fire and brimstone, rivers of melted glowing matter; ten thousand volcanoes vomiting flames all at once; thick darkness, and pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame, like fiery snakes; mountains of earth thrown into the air, and the heavens dropping down in lumps of fire. These things will be literally true concerning that day and that state of the earth.

But if we suppose the storm over, and that the fire hath got a complete victory over all other bodies, and subdued every thing to itself; the conflagration will end in a deluge of fire, or in a sea of fire, covering the whole globe of the earth; for when the exterior region of the earth is melted into a fluor, like molten glass or running metal, it will according to the nature of other fluids, fill all vacuities and depressions, and fall into a regular surface, at an equal distance every where from its centre.

Where are now the great empires of the world, and their great imperial cities? Their pillars, trophies, and monuments of glo

Shew me where they stood, read the inscription, tell me the Victor's name. What remains, what impressions, what difference or distinction do you see in this mass of fire? Rome itself, eternal Rome, the great city, the empress of the world.

trump to earth's remotest bounds-now God begins to rain snares, fire and brimstone upon the ungodly. That flood of fire begins to pour from heaven which is to consume this holocaust.

Imagine all nature now standing in a silent expectation to receive its last doom; the tutelary and destroying angels to have their instructions; every thing to be ready for the fatal hour; and then after a little silence, all the host of heaven to raise their voice, and sing aloud, "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God." And upon this, as upon a signal given, all the sublunary world breaks into flames, and all the treasuries of fire are opened in heaven, and in earth.

The conflagration begins. If one should now go about to represent the world on fire, with all the confusions that necessarily must be in nature, and in mankind upon that occasion, it would seem to most men a romantic scene: yet, we are sure there must be such a scene. "The heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with a fervent heat, and all the works of the earth will be burnt up." And these things cannot come to pass without the greatest disorders imaginable, both in the minds of men, and in external nature, and the saddest spectacles that eye can behold. We think it a great matter to see a single person burnt alive; here are millions shrieking in the flames at once. 'Tis frightful to us to look upon a great city in flames, and to see the distractions and misery of the people; here is an universal fire through all the cities of the earth, and an universal massacre of their inhabitants. Whatsoever the prophets foretold of the destructions of Juda, Jerusalem, or Babylon, (Isa. xxiv. Jer. li. and Lamentations,)in the highest strains, is more than literally accomplished in this last and general calamity; and those only that are spectators of it, can make its history.

The disorders in nature, and the inanimate world, will be no less strange and unaccountable, than those in mankind. Every element and every region, so far as the bounds of this fire extend, will be in a tumult and a fury, and the whole habitable world running into confusion. A world is sooner destroyed than made, and nature relapses hastily into that chaos state, out of which she came by slow and leisurely motions: as an army advances into the field by just and regular marches, but when it is broken and routed, it flies with precipitation, and one cannot describe its posture. Fire is a barbarous enemy, it gives no mercy; there is nothing but fury and rage, and ruin and destruction, where soeverit prevails. A storm or hurricane, though it

be but the force of air, makes a strange havock where it comes; but devouring flames, or exhalations set on fire, have still a far greater violence, and carry more terror along with them. Thunder and earthquake are the sons of fire, and we know nothing in all nature more impetuous or more irresistibly destructive than these two. And accordingly in this last war of the elements, we may be sure they will bear their parts, and do great execution in the several regions of the world. Earthquakes and subterraneous eruptions will tear the body and bowels of the earth, and thunders and convulsive motions of the air rend the skies. The waters of the sea will boil and struggle with streams of sulphur that run into them, which will make them fume and smoke, and roar beyond all storms and tempests; and these noises of the sea will be answered again from the land, by falling rocks and mountains. This is a small part of the disorders of that day.

But it is not possible from any station, to have a full prospect of this last scene of the earth, for it is a mixture of fire and darkness. This new temple is filled with smoke, while it is consecrating, and none can enter into it. But I am apt to think, if we could look down upon this burning world, from above the clouds, and have a full view of it in all its parts, we should think it a lively representation of hell itself. For fire and darkness are the two chief things by which that state, or that place uses to be described; and they are both here mingled together, with all other ingredients that make that tophet that is prepared of old. Here are lakes of fire and brimstone, rivers of melted glowing matter; ten thousand volcanoes vomiting flames all at once; thick darkness, and pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame, like fiery snakes; mountains of earth thrown into the air, and the heavens dropping down in lumps of fire. These things will be literally true concerning that day and that state of the earth.

But if we suppose the storm over, and that the fire hath got a complete victory over all other bodies, and subdued every thing to itself; the conflagration will end in a deluge of fire, or in a sea of fire, covering the whole globe of the earth; for when the exterior region of the earth is melted into a fluor, like molten glass or running metal, it will according to the nature of other fluids, fill all vacuities and depressions, and fall into a regular surface, at an equal distance every where from its centre.

Where are now the great empires of the world, and their great imperial cities? Their pillars, trophies, and monuments of glo

Shew me where they stood, read the inscription, tell me the Victor's name. What remains, what impressions, what difference or distinction do you see in this mass of fire? Rome itself, eternal Rome, the great city, the empress of the world.

whose domination and superstition, ancient and modern, make a great part of the history of this earth; what is become of her now? She laid her foundations deep, and her palaces were strong and sumptuous: She glorified herself, and lived deliciously; and said in her heart, I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow. But her hour is come, she is wiped away from the face of the earth, and buried in perpetual oblivion. But it is not cities only, and works of men's hands, but the everlasting hills, the mountains and rocks of the earth are melted as wax before the sun; and their place is no where to be found. Here stood the Alps, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their arms from the ocean to the Black Sea this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas, with his top above the clouds. There was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus, and Imaus, and the mountains of Asia. And yonder towards the north, stood the Riphæan hills, clothed in ice and snow. All these are vanished, dropt away as the snow upon their heads, and swallowed up in a red sea of fire. The earth will now undoubtedly assume that form and condition which is intimated (that it will assume on that day of fire) Rev. xx. 14. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. It is plain therefore, that he of whom it is said-strong is the Lord God who judgeth her— will at this period of the earth's dissolution, sling it as out of the midst of a sling, from its orb, into the lake of fire which, no doubt, is somewhere located in the great field of space, and flames and sparkles as a comet, or burns as a sun to some other system, or rolls as a globe of darkness, encompassed with its own smoke and horror. How can it be otherwise since this lake of fire is spoken of in the scriptures, as being the place prepared for the devil and his angels, and therefore a work Created, and if so, it possesses location and occupies space. How dreadful will this day of vengeance be to those who had pleasure in unrighteousness, when the earth shall take its eternal farewell of its cooling breezes, and of its fountains of waters, its verdent forests and flowery mountains, to sink into that sea of fire whose burnings shall not be quenched. Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of Saints. Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name, for thy judgments are made manifest.

vince, several people of distinction, who wanted water on their estates, sent for him. Among others Mons. Borelle sent for him to an estate of his where, according to tradition, there had been three springs. The boy, without hesitation, carried him to every one of them. Mons. de Bompart, commander of the squadron of Toulon sent for him to a house of his near town; Mons. de Bompart was so convinced of the boy's skill, that he immediately fell to work, and has succeeded. At a house which the Duke de Villiers lived in, some of the water conduits under it were choked up; and as the direction of them was not known they to save the expense of taking up the floors, sent for the boy; who on being carried to the spot, pointed to the place and said, "Here the conduit begins, and goes in such a direction, &c." -So much upon the relation of others: now for what I have seen myself.

There was a neighbour of mine, as curious as myself to find out whether this boy had such a gift. We agreed to put water in a large earthen pan, hermetically covered with another, and then placed it in a hole two feet under ground, in a vineyard that had been lately tilled. In order that nobody should inform him of it, at night we dug the hole ourselves, then covered it over, and smoothed the ground for twenty feet round. This we did in two places. The boy arrived next morning, and we took him about the country to shew his skill. He went before us alone, with his hands in a short waist coat, and stopped short whenever he found water, spoke of it, and followed to the spring head. By little and little we brought him to the place where the water was hid; and I never was so astonished in my life as to see him go out of the way, stamp upon the spot, and say, "There is water here; but it does not run." The earth was removed, and the pan found directly under. We took him by the second place, which he also discovered; but was angry at being deceived. He then found out a large spring near my neighbour's house, which he was greatly in want of for an oil mill he has there.

"Sir,

London, August, 1772.

"The purpose of my writing to you is, to confirm the credibility of the letter from Charles de Salis, Esq. relative to discovering water under ground. In Portugal there are many who possess the same power. I cannot aver to have been a witness myself, but have my information from gentlemen of undoubted veracity, and in particular from Mr. Warre, brother-in-law to. the Consul, and from Mr. John Olive, of Oporto. I was at

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