CHAPTER VII

.… The heavens were darkened with smoke, while on every side towering flames rose in the air (4), and the wailing of the inhabitants (5) broke upon the ear as nothing ever can equal, until that day when the wicked shall « call on the rocks and the mountains to cover them and hide them from the wrath of

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(1) Tout ce chapitre, qui de la part de Catherine Williams est une invention pure (comme nous l'avons déjà montré), a été, croyons-nous, utilisé par Longfellow. Cf. Evangeline, v. 460 et suiv.

(2) Ibid, v. 474.

(3) Cf. Evangeline, v. 480-481.

(4) Ibid., v. 614-623.

(5) Ibid., v. 624-626.

History informs us, that, « two hundred and fifty-five houses, two hundred and seventy-six barns, one hundred and fifty-five out-houses and eleven mills, were all on fire at once». fhe crackling flames gathered strength on every side, and the maddened and affrighted cattle were flying about the country in all directions (1)... «