... 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... Dwight's American Magazine - Seite 21herausgegeben von - 1847Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Salem Town - 1845 - 264 Seiten
...more than Tane hundred miles at sea; and "at the distance of forty miles, fine pririt cduld be-read at midnight. The brilliancy of the light was like...firmament, -and the scene is said to have been one of unrivaled sublimity..- ,• ' The whole course of the stream from Kilauea to the sea is about forty... | |
| Salem Town - 1847 - 420 Seiten
...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...firmament, and the scene is said to have been one of unrivaled sublimity. 13. The whole course of the stream from Kilauea to the sea is about forty miles.... | |
| Salem Town - 1848 - 300 Seiten
...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...firmament, and the scene is said to have been one of unrivaled sublimity. The whole course of the stream from Kilauea to the sea is about forty miles. Its... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 Seiten
...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...read at midnight. The brilliancy of the light was lik<, a blazing firmament, and the scene is said to have been of unrivalled sublimity. The whole course... | |
| Samuel St. John - 1851 - 370 Seiten
...with dead fish. Night was converted into day, its glare being visible more than one hundred miles at sea, and at the distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. The lava in Kilauea fell four hundred feet, showing that the eruption was a disgorgement of the lava of... | |
| Salem Town - 1854 - 412 Seiten
...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...at midnight. The brilliancy of the light was like a blaz ing firmament, and the scene is said to have been one of unrivaled sublimity. 13. The whole course... | |
| David Nevins Lord - 1855 - 432 Seiten
...seen on the opposite side of the island. It was distinctly visible for more than one hundred miles at sea, and at the distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. . . . "From the period, thirty-six hours, which the lava required to reach the sea, an average velocity... | |
| Alonzo Gray, Charles Baker Adams - 1859 - 384 Seiten
...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. " For three weeks this terrific river continued to disgorge itself into the sea with little abatement.... | |
| Sanborn Tenney - 1860 - 328 Seiten
...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." According to Professor JD Dana, 15,400,000,000 cubic feet of matter flowed from Kilauea at this eruption... | |
| Alonzo Gray, Charles Baker Adams - 1863 - 376 Seiten
...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. " The whole course of the stream from Kilauea to the sea is about 40 miles. Its mouth is about 25 miles from... | |
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