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 small altar lamp, but gradually the lights appeared here and there, worshippers congregated in front of the altar, filling the nave and aisles. In Paris the same scene was exhibited, representing the interior of the Church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois with such perfect reality, that a countryman actually threw a halfpenny against the painted canvas, to see whether he were really in a church or not.

The next scene represented the destruction of the village of Goldau, near Lucerne, by a landslip. First there appeared a smiling fertile valley, its sides crowned with verdure; a storm gradually rose, the rain fell, the wind blew, the lightnings flashed, and the thunder rolled in the distance. Darkness at last closed in, and when the sun once more rose over the valley, nothing was to be seen but a mass of fallen rocks.