Five strokes underground were the signal, then an overflow, wetting every side of the mound. Presently a dome of water rose in the centre of the basin and fell again, immediately to be followed by a fresh bell, which sprang into the air full 40 feet high,... Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas - Page 364by Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton - 1863 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1877 - 992 pages
...basin and fell again, immediately to be followed by a fresh bell, which sprang into the air full forty feet high, accompanied by a roaring burst of steam....utmost violence, a column rushed up to the height of ninety or one hundred feet against the gray night sky, with mighty volumes of white steam-cloud rolling... | |
| John Murray (publishers.) - 1883 - 266 pages
...basin and fell again, immediately to be followed by a fresh bell, which sprang into the air full 40 ft. high, accompanied by a roaring burst of steam. Instantly...violence, a column rushed up to the height of 90 or 100 ft. against the grey night sky with mighty volumes of white eteam cloud rolling about it, and swept... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1883 - 990 pages
...basin and fell again, immediately to be followed by a fresh bell, which sprang into the air full forty feet high, accompanied by a roaring burst of steam....the fountain began to play with the utmost violence ;-»<ohmm rushed up to the height of ninety or one hundred feet against the gray night sky, with mighty... | |
| Alexander Winchell - Geology - 1886 - 348 pages
...basin and fell again, immediately to be followed by a fresh bell, which sprang into the air full forty feet high, accompanied by a roaring burst of steam....utmost violence; a column rushed up to the height of ninety or one hundred feet, against the pray night sky, with mighty volume of white steam cloud rolling... | |
| Alexander Winchell - Geology - 1886 - 344 pages
...followed by a fresh bell, which sprang into the air full forty feet high, accompanied by a roariug burst of steam. Instantly, the fountain began to play...utmost violence ; a column rushed up to the height of ninety or one hundred feet, against the gray night sky, with mighty volume of white steam cloud rolling... | |
| Thomas George Bonney - Earth - 1893 - 570 pages
...signal, then an overflow, wetting every side of the mound. Presently a dome of water rose in the center of the basin and fell again, immediately to be followed...utmost violence, a column rushed up to the height of g0 or 100 feet against the gray night sky, with mighty volumes of white steam cloud rolling about it,... | |
| Thomas George Bonney - Geology - 1902 - 638 pages
...our feet. We rushed out of the tent in every condition of deshabille, and were in time to see Geyser put forth his full strength. Five strokes underground...Jets and lines of water tore their way through the clouds, or leaped high above its domed mass. The earth trembled and throbbed during the explosion ;... | |
| Charles Morris - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1902 - 524 pages
...basin and fell again, immediately to be followed by a fresh bell, which sprang into the air fully forty feet high, accompanied by a roaring burst of steam....fountain began to play with the utmost violence, a column rushing up to the height of ninety or one hundred feet against the gray night sky, with mighty volumes... | |
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