You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are t...

The soil was still of the same volcanic nature; everywhere were traces of lava, scoriae, and basalt; but the crater which had vomited them I could not...

These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, [301] and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be seven feet high. I viewed the...