This with the oil and salt made the yellow flames glisten and quiver.

The heat from the sun and fire was so intense that the atmosphere was tremulous and wavy....

The fire was so fierce as to produce a white heat on the iron, and to reduce its contents to grey ashes.

The only portions that were not consumed were some fragments of bones, the jaw, and the skull; but what surprised us all was that the heart remained entire.

In snatching this relic from the fiery furnace, my hand was severely burnt; and had any one seen me do the act, I should have been put into quarantine." Shelley's heart was given to Hunt, who subsequently, not without reluctance and unseemly dispute, resigned it to Mrs.Shelley.It is now at Boscombe.