 | William Ellis - 1826 - Страниц: 474
...of decomposition. Perforated with innumerable apertures in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the...pyramidal funnel from the furnace to the atmosphere. seen at fourteen leagues' distance." Describing Mouua-Roa, and estimating it according to the tropical... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1826 - Страниц: 512
...decomposition. Perforated, he says, with ennumerable apertures in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the...from the bottom of the sea; or possibly the fires may range with augmented force beneath the bed of the ocean, rearing through the superincumbent weight... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1826 - Страниц: 506
...ennumerable apertures in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast fur? 'nace, situated in the heart of a stupendous submarine mountain...from the bottom of the sea ; or possibly the fires Inay range with augmented force beneath the bed of -tlve ocean, rearing through the superincumbent... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1826 - Страниц: 504
...beneath the bed of the ocean, rearing through the superincumbent weight of water the base of Hawaiah,* and at the same time, forming a pyramidal funnel from the furnace to the atmosphere." Thus one of their kings, who had offended Pile the principal goddess of the volcano, is punned by her... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 854
...of decomposition. Perforated with innumerable apertures in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the...pyramidal funnel from the furnace to the atmosphere. " pp. 229, 230. But we must stop short. Our opinion of the volume has been already expressed ; and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - Страниц: 648
...Perforated with innumerable apertures,' says Mr. Ellis, ' in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the...submarine mountain rising from the bottom of the sea..' Two immense peaked mountains rise out of the north-east and south-west extremities of the central table-land,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - Страниц: 650
...Perforated with innumerable apertures,' says Mr. Ellis, ' in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the...stupendous submarine mountain rising from the bottom of i Insea.' Two immense peaked mountains rise out of the north-east and south-west extremities of the... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 442
...lava. " Perforated," says he, " with innumerable apertures in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the heart of a stupendous marine mountain rising from the bottom of the sea ; or possibly the fires may rage with augmented force... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - Страниц: 314
...decomposition. Perforated with innumerable apertures, in the shape of craters, the island forms one hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the...ocean, rearing through the superincumbent weight of waters, the base of Hawaii, and, at the same time, forming a pyramidal funnel from the furnace to the... | |
 | William Ellis - 1833 - Страниц: 362
...of decomposition. Perforated with innumerable apertures in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the...pyramidal funnel from the furnace to the atmosphere. , ti * In Cook's Voyages, Capt. King, speaking of Mouna Kaah (Kea), remarks, that it "may be clearly... | |
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... one complete mass of lava, or other volcanic matter, in different stages of decomposition. Perforated with innumerable apertures in the shape of craters, the island forms a hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the heart of a stupendous submarine... 
