Part I: PORTENTS
A Time of Extraordinaries
3(22)
Part II: RUMBLINGS
A Country Equal to Our Most Sanguine Wishes
25(15)
Disappointments and Sufferings
40(19)
One of Those Uncommon Geniuses
59(14)
The Impending Destruction
73(14)
The Bloody Ground
87(17)
The Monster of the Waters
104(31)
Part III: UPHEAVAL
All Nature Was in a State of Dissolution
135(27)
A Real Chaos
162(23)
Part IV: AFTERSHOCKS
The Accumulated Load of Public Odium
185(10)
A War of Extirpation
195(17)
The Fatal Blow
212(11)
The Field of Slaughter
223(8)
Epilogue 231(12)
Notes 243(32)
Bibliography of Works Consulted 275(20)
Acknowledgments 295(4)
Index 299