 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1838 - 388 pages
...burning lake. Twenty-two constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame : and at the same time vomited from their ignited mouths...black indented sides into the boiling mass below, (see Tab. 76.) The existence of these conical craters led us to conclude, that the boiling caldron... | |
 | Gift books - 1842 - 258 pages
...grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame ; and several at the same time vomited from their fiery mouths streams of lava which rolled in blazing torrents down their black and rugged sides, into the boiling mass below. The sides of this tremendous gulf, though composed of... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 258 pages
...round the edge or from the surface of the burning lake. Twenty-two constantly emitted columns of gray smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame; and several...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... | |
 | Hiram Bingham - Hawaii - 1847 - 650 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...indented sides, into the boiling mass below." The surface of this body of hnra is subject to unceasing changes from year to year ; for " deep calleth... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - Earthquakes - 1848 - 824 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... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - Earthquakes - 1848 - 902 pages
...burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its ' fiery surge' and naming billows. Fifty-one conical islands of varied form...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 l»*s was... | |
 | Robert Grant - Poetry - 1848 - 144 pages
...'fiery surge' and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many craters, rose either round the edge or from the...black indented sides into the boiling mass below." -Ellis't, tf-c. pages 235-237. NOTE n, page 7" Islands cone-shaped and of colossal size." " At an inconsiderable... | |
 | Hiram Bingham - Hawaii - 1848 - 637 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...indented sides, into the boiling mass below." The surface of this body of lava is subject to unceasing changes from year to year ; for " deep calleth... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane), Jane Loudon - Natural history - 1848 - 426 pages
...smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame ; and several of these at the same time vomited from their burning mouths streams of lava, which rolled in blazing torrents down their black and rugged sides into the boiling mass below." There are several other volcanoes in different parts... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1849 - 558 pages
...of gray smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame; and several at the same time vomited from their fiery mouths streams of lava which rolled in blazing torrents down their black and rugged sides, into the boiling mass below. The sides of this tremendous gulf, though composed of... | |
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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... 
