 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
 | 1863 - 518 Seiten
...phenomenon of a lake of molten and very liquid lava always filling the bottom of the crater, and always in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its fiery surge and flaming billows — yet with this it is content, for it would seem that at least for a long time past there has been... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 258 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... | |
 | Hiram Bingham - 1847 - 650 Seiten
...refused to conduct them thither, they said of it in " The Tour round Hawaii :" " 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 billows.... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1848 - 824 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...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... | |
 | Robert Grant - 1848 - 144 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... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1848 - 902 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...ebullition, rolling to and fro its ' fiery surge' and naming billows. Fifty-one conical islands of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane), Jane Loudon - 1848 - 426 Seiten
...length, and one in breadth, and apparently about 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, forming one vast flood of burning matter in a state of terrific...surge' and flaming, billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose either around the edge or from the surface... | |
 | Hiram Bingham - 1848 - 642 Seiten
...refused to conduct them thither, they said of it in " The Tour round Hawaii :" " 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 billows.... | |
 | Hiram Bingham - 1848 - 637 Seiten
...refused to conduct them thither, they said of it in " The Tour round Hawaii :" " 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 billows.... | |
 | 1850 - 386 Seiten
...miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly one mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west...surge" and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied forms and size, containing so many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface... | |
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