 One night I slept on shore on a part of the island where black truncated cones were extraordinarily numerous: from one small eminence I counted sixty of them, all surmounted by craters more or less perfect. The greater number consisted merely of a ring...  A directory for the navigation of the Pacific ocean - Side 969av Alexander George Findlay - 1851Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1926 - 1230 sider
...surmounted by craters more or less perfect. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae or slags, cemented together : and their height above the plain of lava was not more than from fifty to a hundred feet: none had been very lately active. The entire surface of this part of the island... | |
 | California Academy of Sciences - 1926 - 686 sider
...surmounted by craters more or less perfect. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae or slags, cemented together : and their height above the plain of lava was not more than from fifty to a hundred feet: none had been very lately active. The entire surface of this part of the island... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - 508 sider
...surmounted by a more or less perfect crater. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae, or slags, cemented together: and their height above...me of those parts of Staffordshire where the great ironfoundries are most numerous. The age of the various beds of lava was distinctly marked by the comparative... | |
 | Richard L. Stein - 1988 - 361 sider
...there are differences in tone. Darwin, for instance, remarks that the Chatham Island hillocks give "the country a workshop appearance, which strongly...me of those parts of Staffordshire where the great iron-foundaries are most numerous" (455). Fitz Roy makes the same point in reference to Albemarle Island,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1989 - 452 sider
...surmounted by a more or less perfect crater. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae, or slags, cemented together: and their height above...me of those parts of Staffordshire where the great ironfoundries are most numerous. The age of the various beds of lava was distinctly marked by the comparative... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 sider
...surmounted by craters more or less perfect. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae or slags, cemented together: and their height above the plain of lava was not more than from fifty to a hundred feet; none had been very lately active. The entire surface of this part of the island... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1997 - 500 sider
...regular form of the many craters, they gave to the country an artificial appearance, which vividly reminded me of those parts of Staffordshire, where the great iron foundries are most numerous. The day was glowing hot, and the scrambling over the rough surface and through the intricate duckets,... | |
 | Timothy Lenoir - 1998 - 484 sider
...elevated. In 1839 he writes of the craters in a separate paragraph and remarks with humorous emphasis: "From their regular form, they gave the country a...me of those parts of Staffordshire where the great iron-foundries are most numerous" (Fitzroy, p. 455). The "workshop" has become "artificial" — retaining... | |
 | Marcia Pirie - 1998 - 348 sider
...long-dead eruption of cones and craters. It was a landscape that, in 1835, reminded the young Darwin of '...those parts of Staffordshire where the great iron foundries are most numerous.' We could only imagine the comparison and agree with him, that '...nothing could be less inviting than... | |
 | Wilson Lumpkin Heflin - 2004 - 376 sider
...surmounted by craters more or less perfect. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae or slags, cemented together, and their height above the plain of lava was not more than from fifty to a hundred feet: none had been very lately active. The entire surface of this part of the island... | |
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