 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 516 pages
...skies in a blaze. A black smoke environs it, and from time to time intercepts the dazzling brightness. Lightnings appear to flash from the midst of the burning mass. On a sudden, the vast pillar of fire seems to fall back into the crater, and its fearful splendor is succeeded by profound... | |
 | System - 1842 - 894 pages
...environing smoke sometimes conceals it for a moment, and lightnings appear to flash from the midst of it. On a sudden, the brilliant cascade seems to fall back...crater, and its fearful splendour is succeeded by darkness. Still the action continues within the abyss of the mountain : ashes, dross, and burning stones,... | |
 | James Laurie - 1842 - 1098 pages
...environing smoke sometimes conceals it for a moment, and lightnings appear to flash from the midst of it. On a sudden, the brilliant cascade seems to fall back...crater, and its fearful splendour is succeeded by darkness. Still the action continues within the abyss of the mountain : ashes, dross, and burning stones,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...environing smoke sometimes conceals it for a moment, and lightnings appear to flash from the midst of it. On a sudden, the brilliant cascade seems to fall back...crater, and its fearful splendour is succeeded by darkness. Still the action continues within the abyss of the mountain ; ashes, dross, and burning stones,... | |
 | A. Barrington - 1850 - 448 pages
...black smoke surrounds it, arid from time to time intercepts the dazzling brightness. Lightning appears to flash from the midst of the burning mass. On a sudden the brilliant cascade of fire seems to fell back into the crater, and its fearful splendor is succeeded by profound darkness.... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...its trunk. This hideous tree does not long remain immoveable ; the winds agitate its blackened mass, and disperse it in branches, which form so many trains...are projected in diverging lines, like the spouts of fire- works, and fall around the mouth of the volcano. Enormous fragments of rocks are thrown far into... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 1016 pages
...skies in a blaze. A black smoke environs it, and from time to time intercepts the dazzling brightness. Lightnings appear to flash from the midst of the burning mass. On a sudden, the vast pillar of fire seems to fall back into the crater, and its fearful splendor is succeeded by profound... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1857 - 756 pages
...and from time to time intercepts the dazzling brightness. A number of lightnings appear to flash from the burning mass. On a sudden, the brilliant cascade...effervescence, however, goes on in the interior abysses ot the mountain ; ashes, dross, and burning stones are projected in diverging lines, like the spouts... | |
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A number of -lightnings appear to flash from the midst of the burning mass. On a sudden, the brilliant cascade seems to fall back into the crater, and its fearful splendour is succeeded by profound darkness. The effervescence, however, goes on in the... 