Thus the ravening visitant will scour earth's plains; the ravaging flame will raze tall buildings to the ground by the terror of fire, and the holocaust, notorious afar, hot and ravening for gore will raze the world withal. The shattered walls of cities will collapse outright. Mountains will melt and lofty cliffs, which once securely shielded the land against the main and against its tides, firm and stable, bastions against the breaker and the leaping water. The deadly flame will catch every creature then, beast and bird; the fiery sooty flame, a turbulent warrior, will travel across the land. Whereas waters flowed before and driven tides, then the fishes of the ocean will scorch in a sea of fire, stopped from swimming; every beast of the wave will perish in misery; the water will burn like wax. There will be more prodigies than anyone can imagine in his mind, as to how that crash and the storm and the violent air will broadly breach the universe. Men will cry; they will weep, wailing with weary voices, wretched, morbid of mind and tormented with regrets. The sooty flame will smelt the sins in those corrupted, and embers swallow up ornaments of gold, all the one-time wealth of hereditary kings. There will be uproar and anxiety and turmoil of the living, regret and loud weeping at the tumult from heaven, a wretched welter of mortal men. No one marked by wicked deeds will be able to gain a refuge thence, nor anywhere in the land escape the conflagration; for the fire will take hold throughout whatever country, and fiercely delve and zealously scour earth's regions inside and out, until the fiery incandescence has burned up in its billowing all the pollution of worldly filth.