CHAPTER XI.

LANDSLIPS.

Igneous and Aqueous Causes of Landslips—Fall of the

Diablerets in 1714 and 1749—Escape of a Peasant from his

living Tomb—Vitaliano Donati on the Fall of a Mountain

near Sallenches—The Destruction of Goldau in 1806—

Wonderful Preservation of a Child—Burial of Velleja and

Tauretunum, of Plürs and Scilano—Landslip near Axmouth

in Dorsetshire—Falling in of Cavern-roofs—Dollinas and

Jamas in Carniola and Dalmatia—Bursting of Bogs—

Crateriform Hollows in the Eifel 121

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