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8. Alligator Hole |
William Bartram:
8. Alligator Hole
Here's another fountain, making the earth shake, rushing up out of the
ground, then forming a river that meanders down a valley, for miles, leaving
fragments of rocks tossed onto its banks, until it sinks into the ground.
Lowes points out that Coleridge had made notes on a passage about a savanna
crane, some 17 pages earlier in Bartram, so "we may be certain he read"
about the Alligator Hole.
That's what Ernest Hartley Coleridge argued in a
paper read before the Royal Society of Literature, in 1906 ("William
Bartram's description of the Alligator Hole," Transactions of the Royal
Society of Literature, Second Series, Volume XXVII (1906), p. 81).
Therefore, Lowes
argues, "Certain striking details from one or two of these other lively
descriptions had fixed themselves in Coleridge's memory." 369
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Text On a sudden, he was astonished by an inexpressible rushing noise, like a mighty hurricane or thunder storm, and looking around, he saw the earth overflow by torrents of water… |
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