 | Science - 1840 - 316 pages
...yards of half-cooled scoria, and contains more than 300,000 square yards of convulsed torrents of earth in igneous fusion, and gaseous fluids ; constantly...a disturbed sea, violently beating the edge of the cauldrons, like infuriated surf ; and spreading all around its spray, in the form of hair-like glass,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...the depth of three hundred yards, and containing more than three hundred and twenty - eight thousand square yards of convulsed torrents of earths in igneous...the edge of the caldrons like an infuriated surf, artW, like surf, spreading all around its spray in, the form of capillary glass, which fills the air,... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 600 pages
...the depth of three hundred yards, and containing more than three hundred and twenty-eight thousand square yards of convulsed torrents of earths in igneous...spreading all around its spray in the form of capillary glass,'which tills the air, and adheres in a flaky and pendulous form to the distorted and broken masses... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 628 pages
...hundred yards, and containing more than three hundred and twenty-eight thousand square yards of couvidsed torrents of earths in igneous fusion, and gaseous...around its spray in the form of capillary glass, which tills the air, and adheres in a flaky and pendulous form to the distorted and broken masses of the... | |
 | 1862 - 628 pages
...igneoua fusion, and gaseous Quids constantly effervescing, 1802. The Hawaiian Islands. boiling, spooling, rolling in all directions like waves of a disturbed...of the caldrons like an infuriated surf, and, like ,-mt. spreading all around its spray in the form of capillary glass, which fills the air, and adheres... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 848 pages
...the depth of three hundred yards, and containing more than three hundred and twenty-eight thousand square yards of convulsed torrents of earths in igneous...infuriated surf, and like surf spreading all around itg spray, in the form of capillary glass, which fills the air, and adheres in a flaky and pendulous... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - History - 1874 - 412 pages
...the depth of three hundred yards, and containing more than three hundred and twenty-eight thousand square yards of convulsed torrents of earths in igneous...capillary glass, which fills the air, and adheres in a fiaky and pendulous form to the distorted and broken masses of the lava all around ; five caldrons,... | |
 | Hawaii - 1903 - 216 pages
...the sea—overhangs an area of 3,150,000 square yards of half-cooled scoria, sunk to the depth of 300 yards, and containing more than 328,000 square yards...around its spray in the form of capillary glass which nils the air, and adhere in a flaky and pendulous form to the distorted and broken masses of the lava... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1867 - 850 pages
...300 yards, and containing more than 328,000 square yards of convulsed torrents of earths in igneus fusion, and gaseous fluids constantly effervescing...rolling in all directions like waves of a disturbed sea, 560 A VISION OF MATJNA. LOA. [OCT., violently beating the edge of the cauldrons like an infuriated... | |
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... square yards of convulsed torrents of earths in igneous fusion, and gaseous fluids constantly effervescing, boiling, spouting, rolling in all directions like waves of a disturbed sea, violently beating the edge of the caldrons like an infuriated surf,... 