Geology for Teachers, Classes, and Private StudentsE.H. Butler & Company, 1871 - 366 Seiten |
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Seite 287 - Coan0 which mentions sea water chilling the lava of the 1840 eruption, which was "shivered into millions of minute particles, and, being thrown back into the air, fell in showers of sand on all the surrounding country. The coast was extended into the sea for a quarter of a mile, and a pretty sand beach and a new cape were formed. Three hills of scoria and sand were also formed in the sea, the lowest about two hundred and the highest about three hundred feet.
Seite 288 - For three weeks this terrific river disgorged itself into the sea with little abatement Multitudes of fishes were killed, and the waters of the ocean were heated for twenty miles along the coast The breadth of the stream, where it fell into the sea, is about half a mile, but inland it varies from one to four or five miles in width, conforming itself, like a river , to the face of the country over which it flowed.
Seite 288 - ... shivered into millions of minute particles, and, being thrown back into the air, fell in showers of sand on all the surrounding country. The coast was extended into the sea for a quarter of a mile, and a pretty sand beach and a new cape were formed. Three hills of scoria and sand were also formed in the sea, the lowest about two hundred and the highest about three hundred feet.
Seite 287 - Again it broke out, an overwhelming flood ; and sweeping forest, hamlet, plantation, and everything 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 sounds.
Seite 288 - The depth of the stream will probably vary from ten to two hundred feet, according to the inequalities of the surface over which it passed. During the flow, night was converted into day on all eastern Hawaii. The light rose and spread like the morning upon the mountains, and its glare was seen on the opposite side of the island. It was also distinctly visible for more than one hundred miles at sea; and at the distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight...
Seite 104 - Orders, each order into Families, each family into Genera and each genus into Species, and in some cases each species into several Varieties.
Seite 283 - ... and then fell in a fiery cascade, and overwhelmed part of the city. The wall, however, was not thrown down, but was discovered long afterwards by excavations made in the rock by the prince of Biscari ; so that the traveller may now see the solid lava curling over the top of the rampart, as if still in the very act of falling.
Seite 232 - ... occasionally a rose rash (roseola vaccinia) makes its appearance between the third and eighteenth day after inoculation, commencing most often in the neighborhood of the irritation and extending over other parts of the body. This rash consists of very slightly raised spots of a red color, varying in size from a quarter of an inch to three or four inches in diameter. It lasts but a day or two, and is not followed by desquamation or deposit of pigment. In Variola vaccinia herpetica a crop of vesicles...
Seite 288 - Hilo station. The ground over which it flowed descends at the rate of one hundred feet to the mile. The crust is now cooled, and may be traversed with care, though scalding steam, pungent gases, and smoke are still emitted in many places.
Seite iii - In a clear manner, the leading facts and principle* of Geology. As Its title indicates, it is not only intended to prepare the teacher to give oral instruction in this important subject, but is especially adapted for a text-book In Schools and Colleges, and it is believed that it will also be useful to the general reader. It...