 ... inequalities of the surface over which it passed. During the flow, night was converted into day on all eastern Hawaii. The light rose and spread like the morning upon the mountains, and its glare was seen on the opposite side of the island. It was...  Dwight's American Magazine - Page 21edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | James Dwight Dana - Hawaii - 1890 - 438 pages
...like a storm of hail over the surrounding country. The light "was visible for over a hundred miles at sea, and at the distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight." The author was over the region in the following November. The stream consisted largely of the smoother... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - Volcanoes - 1899 - 396 pages
...like a storm of hail over the surrounding country. The light ' was visible for over a hundred miles at sea, and at the distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight.' " 1 In the month of November, 1840. A LAVA STREAM, KILAUEA 31 Thus the cycle of movement in Kilauea,... | |
 | Mark Twain - Authors, American - 1899 - 748 pages
...— rocks, trees, and all intact. At night the red glare was visible a hundred miles at sea; and at a distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. The atmosphere was poisoned with sulphurous vapors and choked with falling ashes, pumice stones, and cinders;... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 396 pages
...rocks, trees, and all intact. At night the red glare was visible a hundred miles at sea ; and at a distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. The atmosphere was poisoned with sulphurous vapors and choked with falling ashes, pumice stones, and cinders;... | |
 | Mark Twain - American literature - 1906 - 390 pages
...— rocks, trees, and all intact. At night the red glare was visible a hundred miles at sea; and at a distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. The atmosphere was poisoned with sulphurous vapors and choked with falling ashes, pumice stones, and cinders;... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - Volcanoes - 1909 - 302 pages
...converted into day on all eastern Hawaii ; the light was visible for more than one hundred miles at sea ; and at the distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. The whole course of the stream from Kilauea to the sea is about forty miles. The ground over which it flowed... | |
 | Charles Henry Hitchcock - Hawaii - 1909 - 436 pages
...converted into day on all eastern Hawaii ; the light was visible 189 for more than one hundred miles at sea; and at the distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. "The whole course of the stream from Kilauea to the sea is about forty miles. The ground over which it flowed... | |
 | Charles Henry Hitchcock - Hawaii - 1909 - 434 pages
...one hundred miles at sea ; and at the distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. "The whole course of the stream from Kilauea to the sea is about forty miles. The ground over which it flowed descends at the rate of one hundred feet to the mile. The crust is... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1913 - 386 pages
...— rocks, trees, and all intact. At night the red glare was visible a hundred miles at sea; and at a distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. The atmosphere was poisoned with sulphurous vapors and choked with falling ashes, pumice stones, and cinders;... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1913 - 392 pages
...— rocks, trees, and all intact. At night the red glare was visible a hundred miles at sea; and at a distance of forty miles fine print could be read at midnight. The atmosphere was poisoned with sulphurous vapors and choked with falling ashes, pumice stones, and cinders;... | |
| |
