 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its 'fiery surge' and flaming billows. Fiftv.one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose either round the... | |
 | Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain), Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay - 1862 - 316 pages
...bottom was covered with lava, and the SW and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its fiery surges and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing so many... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1863 - 552 pages
...forty-four thousand persons there perished by starvation, from the total destruction of all vegetation. The mountain Kirauiah in the Island of Owyhee, one...that at least for a long time past there has been 110 violent outbreak so as to make what is generally understood by a volcanic eruption. Volcanic eruptions... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - 1868 - 144 pages
...was filled with lava, and the south-west 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... | |
 | Mungo Ponton - 1868 - 366 pages
...covered with lava, and the south-western and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its 'fiery surges ' and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many... | |
 | Alexander Keith Johnston - 1870 - 238 pages
...800 feet deep. The bottom is covered with lava, and parts of it are one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its fiery and flaming billows.1 Most of the islands of the Atlantic Ocean are of volcanic origin. The most northerly... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...covered with lava, and the south-western and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of 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 pages
...covered with lava, and the south-western and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its fiery surges and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many... | |
 | John Edward Marr - 1900 - 468 pages
...with lava, and the south-east, north-east, and northern parts were one vast flood" of burning matter in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its fiery surge and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands of varied form and size, containing as many craters, rose either around the... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - 1909 - 324 pages
...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... | |
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The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its " fiery surge 
