Popular Geology. From "The Museum of Science and Art.".

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Página 89 - 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!
Página 154 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was so.
Página 153 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so.
Página 95 - ... 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.
Página 94 - ... 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.
Página 124 - Potter's Physical Optics ; or, the Nature and Properties of Light. A Descriptive and Experimental Treatise. 100 Illustrations.
Página 156 - Book of Almanacs. With an Index of Reference by which the Almana'c may be found for every Year, whether in Old Style or New, from any Epoch, Ancient or Modem, up to AD 2000.
Página 95 - 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.
Página 156 - Comprising upwards of 200 subjects on 24 sheets, mounted on 12 pieces of thick pasteboard, in a Portfolio. By the Author of "Drawing for Young Children,
Página 96 - ... of the abyss ; the vigorous action of the numerous small craters on its borders ; the dense columns of vapour and smoke, that rose at the north and south end of the plain; together with the ridge of steep rocks by which it was surrounded, rising probably in some places 300 or 400 feet in perpendicular height, presented an immense volcanic panorama, the effect of which was greatly augmented by the constant roaring of the vast furnaces below.

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