| Mariana Starke - 1802 - 476 pages
...pine. This column was fometimes clearly diftinguifhed, and, at others, obfcured by cinders and lavaj it continued augmenting rapidly in circumference, till at length it began to incline downwards, when, from the quantity of K 3 denfe denfe matter which compofed the column, being... | |
| John Alonzo Clark - Europe - 1840 - 588 pages
...up, continually increased in magnitude till it formed itself into the shape of an immense pine tree. This column was sometimes clearly distinguished, and...circumference, till at length it began to decline downward, and then soon after fell to the earth. Torrents of burning lava now poured down the mountain in several... | |
| 1845 - 558 pages
...continually increased ¡ц magnitude till it formed itself Into tbe shape of an immense pine tree. This column was sometimes clearly distinguished, and...circumference, till at length it began to decline downward, and then soon after fell to the earth. Torrents of burning lava now poured down the mountain in several... | |
| Europe - 1847 - 568 pages
...in Torre-del-Greco, which is only five horizontal miles from this new volcano, at whose mouth issued a column of smoke, that continually mounted and increased...the air, the former, of course, fell to the ground. Tdrrents of flaming lava, ofa portentous magnitude, now poured down the mountain, principally in two... | |
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