Immediately before us yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern... Hawaii and Its Volcanoes - Seite 172von Charles Henry Hitchcock - 1909 - 314 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Daubeny - 1826 - 504 Seiten
...mile in width, and apparently eight hundred feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the SW and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...surge' 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... | |
| Charles Daubeny - 1826 - 506 Seiten
...in width, and apparently eight hundred feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the SW ;md northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...surge' 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... | |
| 1826 - 490 Seiten
...miles in length, about a mile across, and apparently eight hundred feet deep. The bottom was filled with lava, and the southwest and northern parts of it were one vast flood of liquid fire, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its " fiery surge," and flaming... | |
| 1826 - 436 Seiten
...miles in length, about a mile across, and apparently eight hundred feet deep. The bottom was filled with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of liquid fire, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its "fiery surge," and flaming billows.... | |
| 1826 - 446 Seiten
...was fi led whh lava ; and the south-west and northern ±s ofTt were one vast flood of liquid fire, in a state of terrific ebullition rolling to and fro its « fiery surge," and flaming bilfow Ftfty-one etaters, of varied form and size, rose hke o many conical islands from the surface... | |
| 1827 - 854 Seiten
...miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently HOO feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava; and the south-west...surge' 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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 Seiten
...length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently eight hundred feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west...surge" 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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 Seiten
...north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently eight hundred feet deep. The lx>ttom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern...surge" 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... | |
| Luke Herbert - 1827 - 524 Seiten
...apparently eight hundred feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parte of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a...surge' 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... | |
| 1827 - 616 Seiten
...miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west...vast flood of burning matter, In a state of terrific ebullition/rolling to and fro its ' fiery surge' and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of... | |
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