Only several million
years ago the Kaczawy were enveloped in gas fumes and
volcanic ashes. The mystery was there, in the atmosphere. From beneath the
earth went some dumb sounds woke up by quakes. It was the landscape similar to
those known from mines during cloudy days. The bare slopes of volcanoes were
covered with lava that glowed in the darkness of the night. This apocalyptic
scenery was not, though, to last forever and at last it gave way to the idyll
of the Land abundant in Earth's riches. The Land of Extinct Volcanoes became
the land of man's labor and life.