 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
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 Seiten
...mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-western and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its fiery surges and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of \ aried form and size, containing as many... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 Seiten
...mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-western and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro MOUNTAINS OF FIRE. its fiery surges and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of \aried form... | |
 | John Edward Marr - 1900 - 468 Seiten
...follows : — " The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-east, north-east, and northern parts were one vast flood" of burning matter in a state...surge and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands of varied form and size, containing as many craters, rose either around the edge or from the surface... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 524 Seiten
...mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the southwestern and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning...terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its 'fiery surges ' and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - 1909 - 324 Seiten
...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. Fifty-one craters of varied form and size rose like so many conical islands from the surface of the burning lake.... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - 1909 - 302 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 billows.... | |
 | 1848 - 740 Seiten
...been the first who described this unique and grand crater. " At the time of his visit," he says, " the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast...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... | |
 | William Alanson Bryan - 1915 - 612 Seiten
...Their form of expressing affection. 10 Uwekahunu. < * ^2 2 ' dred feet deep. The bottom was filled with lava and the southwest and northern parts of it were one vast Hood of liquid tire in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its fiery surge of naming... | |
 | William Alanson Bryan - 1915 - 610 Seiten
...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 of flaming billows. Fifty-one craters of varied form and size rose like so many conical islands from... | |
 | William Ellis - 1917 - 390 Seiten
...north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet deep. A FLOOD OP BURNING LAVA. 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... | |
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