 | 1886 - 850 Seiten
...journey, we rode for hours by the side of that apparently boundless plain. Here and there, a trachytic spur projected from the hills, succeeded now and then...black flood of lava would stretch away into the high grounds. It was as if the great plain had been filled with molten rock, which had kept its level, and... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 770 Seiten
...journey, we rode for hours by the side of that apparently boundless plain. Here and there a trachytic spur projected from the hills, succeeded now and then...black flood of lava would stretch away into the high grounds. It was as if the great plain had been filled with molten rock which had kept its level and... | |
 | 1879 - 614 Seiten
...journey, we rode for hours by the side ofthat apparently boundless pla n. Here and there a trachytic spur projected from the hills, succeeded now and then by a valley up whicu the black flood of lava would stretch away into the high grounds. It was as if the great plain... | |
 | 1880 - 918 Seiten
...mountains " upon the great sea of black lava which seemed to stretch inimitably westwards," and appeared as if the great plain had been filled with molten...mountain slopes. as a sheet of water would have done. The precipitous walls of the canon cuttings of the Snake River show that the plain is covered by a... | |
 | 1880 - 932 Seiten
...seemed to stretch inimitably westwards,' appeared as if the great plain had been filled with molten which had kept its level and wound in and out, along the ba) promontories of the mountain slopes. as a sheet of water would done. The precipitous walls of the... | |
 | 1881 - 1100 Seiten
...journey, we rode for hours by the side of that apparently boundless plain. -Here arid there a trachytic spur projected from the hills, succeeded now and then...black flood of lava would stretch away into the high grounds. It was as if the great plain had been filled with molten rock which had kept its level and... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 656 Seiten
...journey, we rode for hours by the side of that apparently boundless plain. Here and there a trachytic spur projected from the hills, succeeded now and then...black flood of lava would stretch away into the high grounds. It was as if the great plain had been filled with molten rock which had kept its level and... | |
 | 1882 - 340 Seiten
...emerged from the mountains upon the great sea of black lava, which seems to stretch inimitably westward. It was as if the great plain had been filled with...the bays and promontories of the mountain slopes as water would have done. I became convinced that all volcanic phenomena are not to be explained by the... | |
 | Sir Archibald Geikie - 1882 - 360 Seiten
...now and then by a valley up which the black flood of lava would stretch away into the high grounds. It was as if the great plain had been filled with...in and out along the bays and promontories of the mountain-slopes as a sheet of water would have done. Copious springs and streams which issue from the... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1882 - 446 Seiten
...journey, we rode for hours by the side of that apparently boundless plain. Here and there a trachytic spur projected from the hills, succeeded now and then...black flood of lava would stretch away into the high grounds. It was as if the great plain had been filled with molten rock which had kept its level and... | |
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With minds keenly excited by the incidents of the journey, we rode for hours by the side of that apparently boundless plain. Here and there a trachytic spur projected from the hills, succeeded now and then by a valley up which the black flood of lava... 
