 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 170von Charles Henry Hitchcock - 1911 - 322 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Ellis - 1827 - 542 Seiten
...miles in length, from northeast to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west...were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terjific ebullition, rolling to and fro its "fiery surge" and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 Seiten
...miles in length, from northeast to southwest, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep, the bottom was covered with lava ; and the southwest...rolling to and fro ' its fiery surge' and flaming biilows. Fifty-one conical islands, of various form and size, containing so many craters, rose either... | |
 | William Ellis - 1831 - 520 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 as many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface... | |
 | Ephraim Eveleth - 1831 - 218 Seiten
...in length, about a mile across, and apparently eight or ten hundred feet deep. The bottom was rilled 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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 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 southwest...surge" and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1832 - 590 Seiten
...nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 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... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 750 Seiten
...nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the SW and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebulition, rolling to and fro its ' fiery surge' and flaming billows. Fiftyone conical islands, of... | |
 | 1832 - 440 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... | |
 | William Ellis - 1833 - 362 Seiten
...length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently eight hundred feefdeep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west...surge" and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface... | |
 | 1833 - 270 Seiten
...feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava and the SW and Northern parts of it were one vast Wood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition,...surge" and flaming billows. Fiftyone conical islands, of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose either round the edge, or from the surface... | |
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