Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

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Author：Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter VII. of Bartram"s book contains an account of some natural wonders in the Cherokee country that almost certainly afforded part of the imagery of "Kubla Khan." Bartram, says Mr. Coleridge, "speaks of waters which "descend by slow degrees through rocky caverns into the bowels of the earth, whence they are carried by subterraneous channels into other receptacles and basons." He travels for several miles over "fertile eminences and delightful shady forests." He is enchanted by a "view of a dark sublime grove;" of the grand fountain he says that the "ebullition is astonishing and continual, though its greatest force of fury intermits" (note the word "intermits") "regularly for the s.p.a.ce of thirty seconds of time: the ebullition is perpendicular upward, from a vast rugged orifice through a bed of rock throwing up small particles of white sh.e.l.ls." He is informed by "a trader" that when the Great Sink was forming there was heard "an inexpressible rushing noise like a mighty hurricane or thunderstorm," that "the earth was overflowed by torrents of water which came wave after wave rushing down, attended with a terrific noise and tremor of the earth," that the fountain ceased to flow and "sank into a huge bason of water;" but, as he saw with his own eyes, "vast heaps of fragments of rock" (Coleridge writes "huge fragments"), "white chalk, stones, and pebbles had been thrown up by the original outbursts and forced aside into the lateral valleys.""
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