The Museum of Science and Art, Volumi 11-12Dionysius Lardner Walton and Maberly, 1856 |
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Pagina 101 - ... and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface of the burning lake. Twentytwo constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame ; and several of these at the same time vomited from their ignited mouths streams of lava, which rolled in blazing torrents down their black indented sides into the boiling mass below.
Pagina 100 - ... feet below its original level. The surface of this plain was uneven, and strewed over with large stones and volcanic rocks, and in the centre of it was the great crater, at the distance of a mile and a half from the precipice on which we were standing.
Pagina 95 - On Lough Neagh's bank, as the fisherman strays. When the clear cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining; Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over; Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long faded glories they cover.
Pagina 101 - The existence of these conical craters, led us to conclude that the boiling caldron of lava before us, did not form the focus of the volcano ; that this mass of melted lava was comparatively shallow, and that the basin in which it was contained, was separated by a stratum of solid matter from the great volcanic abyss which constantly poured out its melted contents through these numerous craters, into this upper reservoir.
Pagina 178 - II. levelled the thunders of the Church against the enemies of his faith, terrestrial and celestial, and in the same bull exorcised the Turks and the comet ; and in order that the memory of this manifestation of his power should he for ever preserved, he ordained that the bells of all the churches should be rung at midday — a custom which is preserved in those countries to our times.
Pagina 172 - I did not remark any beams projecting from it which deserved notice as much more conspicuous than the others ; but the whole was beamy, radiated in structure, and terminated (though very indefinitely) in a way which reminded me of the ornament frequently placed round a mariner's compass. Its colour was white, or resembling that of Venus. I saw no flickering or unsteadiness of light. It was not separated from the moon by any dark ring, nor had it any annular structure ; it looked like a radiating...
Pagina 99 - Aguasarco assert that flames were seen to issue forth for an extent of more than half a square league, that fragments of burning rocks were thrown up to prodigious heights, and that through a thick cloud of ashes, illumined by the volcanic fire, the softened surface of the earth was seen to swell up like an agitated sea.
Pagina 60 - With regard to the atmosphere,' says Dr Buckland, ' we infer that, had it differed materially from its actual condition, it might have so far affected the rays of light, that a corresponding difference from the eyes of existing crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. Regarding light itself also, we learn from the resemblance of these most ancient...