 | Mungo Ponton - Earthquakes - 1868 - 366 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... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - Volcanoes - 1868 - 144 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 gulf before us were perpendicular for about four hundred feet, when there was a wide horizontal... | |
 | Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - Hawaii - 1883 - 328 pages
...columns of grey smoke or pyramids of brilliant flame, and several of these simultaneously vomited forth streams of lava, which rolled in blazing torrents...black indented sides into the boiling mass below." " There were also a number of small craters in vigorous action, situated high up the sides of the great... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - Science - 1887 - 886 pages
...flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of \ aried form and size, containing as many craters, rise either round the edge or from the surface of the burning...black indented sides into the boiling mass below. This great crater was also visited by Messrs. Dana and Wilkes of the United States' exploring expedition.... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - Hawaii - 1890 - 438 pages
...[lava-jets ?], 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." In a night scene " the agitated mass of liquid lava, like a flood of metal, raged with tumultuous whirl,"... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - Hawaii - 1890 - 450 pages
...[lava-jets ?], 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." In a night scene " the agitated mass of liquid lava, like a flood of metal, raged with tumultuous whirl,"... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1900 - 566 pages
...containing so many craters, rose either round the edge or the surface of the burning lake. Twentytwo of them constantly emitted columns of grey smoke or pyramids...black indented sides into the boiling mass below. The grey and calcined sides of the huge crater before us ; the fissures which intersected the surface of... | |
 | Charles Henry Hitchcock - Hawaii - 1909 - 436 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...black indented sides into the boiling mass below." Next follows a paragraph added in the later edition, a theoretical deduction. "The existence of these... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - Volcanoes - 1909 - 306 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 gulf before us were perpendicular for about four hundred feet, when there was a wide horizontal... | |
 | Arminianism - 1848 - 740 pages
...Twenty-two constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame ; and several of them vomited from their ignited mouths streams of lava,...black, indented sides, into the boiling mass below. Streams of lava from smaller craters in vigorous action higher up the sides of the great gulf, rolled... | |
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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... 
