... before it, rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, leaping a precipice of forty or fifty feet, it poured itself in one vast cataract of fire into the deep below, with loud detonations, fearful hissings, and a thousand unearthly and indescribable... Hawaii and Its Volcanoes - Seite 189von Charles Henry Hitchcock - 1909 - 314 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1841 - 1158 Seiten
...subterranean stream, on account of the impenetrable thicket under which it passes. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and every thing before it, rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, leaping a precipice of... | |
| Nathan Hale - 1841 - 602 Seiten
...subterranean stream, on account of .the impenetrable thicket under which it passes. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and every thing before it, rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, leaping a precipice of... | |
| 1841 - 730 Seiten
...the trunk of a tree so exactly that its legs stand astride at the fissure. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and every thing before it, rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, leaping a precipice of... | |
| Lucy Goodale Thurston - 1842 - 238 Seiten
...subterranean stream, on account of tlie impenetrable thicket under which it passes. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and every thing before it, rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, leaping a precipice of... | |
| Salem Town - 1845 - 264 Seiten
...stream, on account of the impenetrable " thicket under which it passes. After flowing under ground several , miles, perhaps six -or .eight, it again...rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, 11 leaping a precipice of forty or fifty feet, it poured itself in one vast cataract of fire into the... | |
| 1845 - 420 Seiten
...subterranean stream, on account of the impenetrable thicket under which it passes. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and every thing before it, rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, leaping a precipice of... | |
| Salem Town - 1845 - 296 Seiten
...subterranean stream, on account of the impenetrable thicket- under which it passes. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and every thing before it, rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, leaping a precipice of... | |
| Salem Town - 1847 - 420 Seiten
...subterranean stream, on account of the impenetrable thicket under which it passed. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and every thing before it, rolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, leaping a precipice of... | |
| Salem Town - 1848 - 300 Seiten
...subterranean stream, on account of the impenetrable thicket un.der which it passes. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...flood, and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and every thing before it, tolled down with resistless energy to the sea, where, ° 11 leaping a precipice... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 Seiten
...subterranean stream on account of the impenetrable thicket under which it passes. After flowing under ground several miles, perhaps six or eight, it again broke...out like an overwhelming flood, and sweeping forest, namlet, plantation, and every thing before ;«***• •**i«* «t*t*** 318 ¥ESTERN MISCELLANY. it,... | |
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