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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
135
At
last
a
rain
came,
and
upon
a
sudden
all
their
Houses
appeared
of
a
flaming
Fire;
and
the
more
Water
there
was
poured
on
them,
the
more
they
did
flame
and
burn;
which
struck
such
a
Fright
and
Terror
into
all
the
Neighbouring
Cities,
Nations
and
Kingdoms,
that
for
fear
the
like
should
happen
to
them,
they
and
all
the
rest
of
the
parts
of
that
World,
granted
the
Empress's
desire,
and
submitted
to
the
Monarch
and
sovereign
of
her
Native
Countrey,
the
King
of
Esfi;
save
one,
which
having
seldom
or
never
any
rain,
but
onely
dews,
which
would
soon
be
spent
in
a
great
fire,
slighted
her
Power:
The
Empress
being
desirous
to
make
it
stoop
as
well
as
the
rest,
knew
that
every
year
it
was
watered
by
a
flowing
Tide,
which
lasted
some
Weeks;
and
although
their
Houses
stood
high
from
the
ground,
yet
they
were
built
upon
Supporters
which
were
fixt
into
the
ground.
Wherefore
she
commanded
both
her
Bird-
and
Worm-men
to
lay
some
of
the
Fire-stones
at
the
bottom
of
those
Supporters,
and
when
the
Tide
came
in,
all
their
Houses
were
of
a
Fire,
which
did
so
rarifie
the
Water,
that
the
Tide
was
soon
turn'd
into
a
Vapour,
and
this
Vapour
again
into
Air;
which
caused
not
onely
a
destruction
of
their
Houses,
but
also
a
general
barrenness
over
all
their
Countrey
that
year,
and
forced
them
to
submit,
as
well
as
the
rest
of
the
World
had
done.
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