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16          LETTERS TO wholly obnubilated and offuscation amplifying. The furcations of fulgurations became vivid, and the fulminations, horrisonous. In a brevity of time, there was a copious decadence of pluvious globules which subjected me and Indagator to thorough madefaction. The streams assumed ampliations that might be instyled a local cataclysm. Aqueous domination prevailed on earth – igneous puissance predominated in the nubiferous regions and a resistless ventosity maintained awful boations in the atmosphere.

The fulgurations communicated their igneous potency to a habitat, and set it in flagration, which terminated in entire incineration, but none of the inmates fell a prey to adustion.

Myself and Indagator had to engage in tranations of the streams, which augmented our former madefac tion and also the ponderosity of our envelopes. Ultimately we arrived at a cabaret. Here we had an opportunity for arefaction, and as tenebrosity encircled our moiety of this mundane sphere, we both sank into the gremium of Morpheus.

Yours, with accustomary comity,

LORENZO ALTISONANT.

Edacetyville, Occident, July 6th, 1842.

LONGEVOUS SIR ,-- The day sequacious to the vesper on which I effectuated in a certain cabaret an exsiccation of my habiliments by torrefaction, was not very inservient to the progress of a pedestrious emigrant. It is true, the atmospheric regions had been enubilated, but then the roads had become lutulent; in some parts clarty; and in others, presented a great oppilation to a viator's velocity by the viscosity of their surface.