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" ... reigns past it had kept below the level of the surrounding plain, continually extending its surface and increasing its depth, and occasionally throwing up, with violent explosions, huge rocks, or red-hot stones. "
The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 27
1826
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 7

1827 - 452 pages
...light. They stated, that, in earlier ages, the volcano " used so boil up, to overflow its banks, and to inundate the adjacent country ; but that, for many...throwing up, with violent explosion, huge rocks, or red-hot stones. These eruptions, they said, were always accompanied by dreadful earthquakes, loud claps...
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A Journal of a Tour Around Hawaii, the Largest of the Sandwich Islands

William Ellis - 1825 - 290 pages
...during the reign of every king that had governed Hawaii. That, in earlier ages, it used to boil up, overflow its banks, and inundate the adjacent country; but that, for many king's reigns past, it had kept below the level of the surrounding plain, continually extending its...
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American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 11

1826 - 446 pages
...wave." The natives said, that according to tradition, the volcano had been burning from chaos, ornight, till now — for they refer the origin of the world,...had kept below the level of the surrounding plain, coutinuaSy extending' its surfaee, and increasing its depth, and occasionally throwing up, with violent...
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The Monthly Review

1826 - 568 pages
...that this volcano had been burning from time immemorial ; that in the earlier ages it used to boil up and inundate the adjacent country, but that ' for...said, were always accompanied by dreadful earthquakes, loud claps of thunder, with vivid and quick succeeding lightning.' About half a mile distant from the...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1826 - 570 pages
...immemorial; that in the earlier ages it used to boil up and inundate tlie adjacent country, but that ' lor many kings' reigns past it had kept below the level...said, were always accompanied by dreadful earthquakes, loud claps of thunder, with vivid and quick succeeding lightning.' About half a mile distant from the...
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Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii, Or Owhyhee; with Remarks on the History ...

William Ellis - 1826 - 476 pages
...during the reign of every king that had governed Hawaii : that in earlier ages it used to boil up, overflow its banks, and inundate the adjacent country...throwing up, with violent explosion, huge rocks or red-hot stones. These eruptions, they said, were always accompanied by dreadful earthquakes, loud claps...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 25

1826 - 608 pages
...precipices which girt it round ; but that for a long time past it had ceased to reach their level; it was continually ' extending its surface and increasing...throwing up, with violent explosion, huge rocks * or red-hot stones.' The last ejection of these tremendous missiles was fatal to a considerable number...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 25

1826 - 606 pages
...precipices which girt it round ; but that for a long time past it had ceased to reach their level; it was continually ' extending its surface and increasing...throwing up, with violent explosion, huge rocks • or red-hot stones.' The last ejection of these tremendous missiles was fatal to a considerable number...
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The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 6

1827 - 442 pages
...at konane. The waving of the furnaces and the crackling of the flames, were the Jcaui of their hura, (music of their dance,) and the red flaming surge...said, were always accompanied by dreadful earthquakes, loud claps of thunder, and vivid and quick succeeding lightning. No great explosion, they added, had...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 9

1827 - 616 pages
...during the reign of every king that had governed Hawaii : that in earlier ages it used to boil up, overflow its banks, and inundate the adjacent country...throwing up, with violent explosion, huge rocks or red-hot stonea. These eruptions, they said, were always accompanied by dreadful earthquakes, loud claps...
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