 Two or three of the small craters, nearest to the north side, where we lodged, were in full action, every moment casting out stones, ashes and lava, with heavy detonations, while the irritated flames accompanying them glared widely over the surrounding...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 3681826Full view - About this book
 | 1826 - 446 pages
...green and yellow ; with the exception of these, the ledge, and every thing below it, is of a dismal black. The cliffs above the ledge, forming the outer...and occasionally casting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. The great seat of action, however, seemed to be at the southern and western... | |
 | 1827 - 442 pages
...of the crater, are on the northern and western sides perfectly perpendicular, and of a red colour, every where exhibiting the marks of former powerful...and occasionally casting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. The great seat of action, however, seemed to be at the southern and western... | |
 | 1827 - 448 pages
...entire banks of sulphur, of a delicate and beautiful yellow. The south end is wholly obscured by che smoke, which fills that part of the crater, and spreads...and occasionally casting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. The great seat of action, however, seemed to be at the southern and western... | |
 | 1827 - 566 pages
...the sudden approach of a gloomy night. Two or three of the small craters nearest to us were in fall action, every moment casting out stones, ashes and...obscurity, against the sides of the ledge and upper cliñs — richly illuminating the volumes of smoke at the south end, and occasionally casting a bright... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 340 pages
...of a city, on the sudden approach of a gloomy night. Two or three of the small craters nearest to us were in full action, every moment casting out stones,...and occasionally casting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. The great seat of action, however, seemed to be at the southern and western... | |
 | 1828 - 596 pages
...of a city, on the sudden approach of a gloomy night. Two or three of the smull craters nearest to us were in full action, every moment casting out stones,...and occasionally casting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. The great seat of action however seemed to be at the southern and western... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 226 pages
...of a city, on the sudden approach of a gloomy night. Two or three of the small craters nearest to us were in full action, every moment casting out stones,...and occasionally casting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. Th« great seat of action, however, seemed to be at the southern and western... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 428 pages
...jof a city, on the sudden approach of a gloomy night. Two or three of the small craters nearest to us were in full action, every moment casting out stones,...volumes of smoke at the south end, and occasionally pasting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. The great seat of action, however, seemed... | |
 | 1832 - 440 pages
...the sudden approach of a gloomy night. Two or three of the small craters, nearest to the north aide, where we lodged, were in full action, every moment...and occasionally casting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. The great seat of action, however, seemed to be at the southern and western... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pages
...the darkness increased, appear16* ed in such rapid succession, as forcibly to remind me of the hastj lighting of the lamps of a city on the sudden approach...volumes of smoke at the south end, and occasionally easting a bright reflection on the bosom of a passing cloud. The great seat of action, however, seemed... | |
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