 | 1827 - 452 pages
...brilliant flame, and many of them at the same time vomited from their ignited mouths streams of fluid lava, which rolled in blazing torrents down their black indented sides into the bailing mass below. The sides of the gulph before us were perpendicular for about 400 feet, when there... | |
 | 610 pages
...burning lake. Twenty-two constantly emitted columns of gray smoke, or pyramids of brilliant llame, and several of these at the same time vomited from...of these conical craters led us to conclude, that tbe boiling caldron of lava before us did not form tbe focus of the volcano; that this mass of melted... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 520 pages
...brilliant flame, and many of them, at the same time, vomited from their ignited mouths streams of florid lava, which rolled in blazing torrents, down their...indented sides, into the boiling mass below. ' The sides of the gulf before us, were perpendicular, for about four hundred feet ; when there was a wide,... | |
 | 724 pages
...a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...black indented sides into the boiling mass below." — pp. 199 — 207. In this scene of stupendous sublimity, ourtravellers, after they had in some measure... | |
 | William Ellis - Hawaii - 1825 - 290 pages
...brilliant flame, and many of them, at the same time, vomited, from their ignited mouths, streams of florid lava, which rolled, in blazing torrents, down their...black, indented sides, into the boiling mass below. The sides of the gulph before us, were perpendicular, for about 400 feet; when there was a wide, horizontal... | |
 | William Ellis - Hawaii - 1825 - 290 pages
...brilliant flame, and many of them, at the same time, vomited, from their ignited mouths, streams of florid lava, which rolled, in blazing torrents, down their...black, indented sides, into the boiling mass below. After our first feelings of astonishment had subsided, we continued for about half an hour, contemplating... | |
 | William Ellis - Hawaii - 1826 - 476 pages
...a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...conical craters led us to conclude, that the boiling caldron of lava before us did not form the focus of the volcano; that this mass of melted lava was... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 568 pages
...a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...conical craters led us to conclude, that the boiling caldron of lava before us did not form the focus of the volcano ; that this mass of melted lava was... | |
 | 1826 - 570 pages
...a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...conical craters led us to conclude, that the boiling caldron of lava before us did not form the focus of the volcano; that this mass of melted lava was... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 608 pages
...a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...conical craters led us to conclude, that the boiling caldron of lava before us did not form the focus of the volcano ; that this mass of melted lava was... | |
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... and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface of the burning lake. Twenty-two constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant... 
