My living room is what you'd expect, hardwood floors, simple grassy-brown furniture, oversized television, a fireplace. A former married home that's been “bachelorized,” according to Grant's wife, Audrey.

Next followed a period of activity in which basic rocks were produced by submarine eruptions—lavas and scoriae of anorthitic character, palagonitic tuffs, and basaltic ashes; and finally from the crater, which must have been a vast lake of fire like those in the Sandwich Islands, poured forth quiet streams of basaltic lavas.

Then fall they to cry, to weep, and to torment themselves, as little children that have lost their playgame.

About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.