 | Hiram Bingham - 1848 - 642 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 various form and size rose like so many conical islands from the surface of the... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane), Jane Loudon - 1848 - 426 pages
...apparently about 800 feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, forming 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 so many craters, rose either around... | |
 | Hiram Bingham - 1848 - 637 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 various form and size rose like so many conical islands from the surface of the... | |
 | Robert Grant - 1848 - 144 pages
...covered with lava, and the southwest 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. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many craters, rose either round the... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1848 - 824 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. Fifty-one conical islands of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose either round the... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1848 - 902 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 naming billows. Fifty-one conical islands of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose... | |
 | 1850 - 386 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. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied forms and size, containing so many craters, rose either round... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 446 pages
...his visit he said that the southwest 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. '' Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many craters, rose either round... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 644 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. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing as many cratère, rose cither round... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1851 - 718 pages
...covered with lava, and the southwest 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. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose either round 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 
