... rolling about it, and swept off by the breeze to fall in torrents of hot rain. Jets and lines of water tore their way through the cloud, or leaped high above its domed mass. The earth trembled and throbbed during the explosion, then the column sank,... 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
...the 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...dropped once more, and seemed to be sucked back into earth." Erasmus Darwin, in his Botanic Garden, has the following lines on the Great Geyser : " High... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1883 - 990 pages
...the utmost violence ;-»<ohmm rushed up to the height of ninety or one hundred feet against the gray night sky, with mighty volumes of white steam-cloud...dropped once more, and seemed to be sucked back into earth. AJ Symington * describes his experience of an eruption of the Great Geyser as follows: Subterranean... | |
| John Murray (publishers.) - 1883 - 266 pages
...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 off by the breeze to fall...dropped once more, and seemed to be sucked back into earth." {Baring Gould.) The Strokkr (Churn) Geysir is 44 ft. in depth, and 9 it. in diameter at the... | |
| Alexander Winchell - Geology - 1886 - 350 pages
...of ninety or one hundred feet, against the gray night sky, with mighty volume of white steam cloud rolling about it, and swept off by the breeze to fall...more, and seemed to be sucked back into the earth." — Pen and Pencil Sketches of Faroe and Iceland. No one can contemplate the phenomena of a geyser... | |
| Alexander Winchell - Geology - 1886 - 368 pages
...of ninety or one hundred feet, against the gray night sky, with mighty volume of white steam cloud rolling about it,, and swept off by the breeze to...dropped once more, and seemed to be sucked back into the earth."—Pen and Pencil Sketches of Faroe and Iceland. No one can contemplate the phenomena of a geyser... | |
| Alexander Winchell - Geology - 1886 - 380 pages
...of ninety or one hundred feet, against the gray night sky, with mighty volume of white steam cloud rolling about it, and swept off by the breeze to fall...and throbbed during the explosion, then the column pank, started up again, dropped once more, and seemed to be sucked back into the earth." — Pen and... | |
| Thomas George Bonney - Earth - 1893 - 570 pages
...to the height of g0 or 100 feet against the gray night sky, with mighty volumes of white steam cloud rolling about it, and swept off by the breeze to fall...Jets and lines of water tore their way through the clouds, or leaped high above its domed mass. The earth trembled and Fio. 107.— SECTION OF THE GREAT... | |
| Alexander Winchell - Geology - 1898 - 364 pages
...of ninety or one hundred feet, against the gray night sky, with mighty volume of white steam cloud rolling about it, and swept off by the breeze to fall...and lines of water tore their way through the cloud, nr leaped high above its domed mass. The earth trembled and throbbed during the explosion, then the... | |
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