Other flashes with incessant play cross their vivid fires, while others again roll themselves into balls of living fire which explode like bombshells, but the music of which scarcely-adds to the din of the battle strife that almost deprives us of our senses of hearing and sight; the limit of intense loudness has been passed within which the human ear can distinguish one sound from another. If all the powder magazines in the world were to explode at once, we should hear no more than we do now.
D'autres éclairs se bifurquent ou prennent la forme de globes de feu qui éclatent comme des bombes. Le bruit général ne parait pas s'en accroître; il a dépassé la limite d'intensité que peut percevoir l'oreille humaine, et, quand toutes les poudrières du monde viendraient à sauter ensemble, nous ne saurions en entendre davantage.