Excerpt from Drawings and Tintings To leaping rivers - plains to dashing lakes And gorges to mad (plunging cataracts; The peopled city an the lonely cot Sank in the rising waters; mountain alts, Dotting the billowy desert, were o'erw elm'd, Until a boundless ocean wildly toss'd Its giant surges, and with ceaseless roar Thunder'd its requiem o'er a world destroy 'd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.