 | 610 pages
...appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy stone, while its -imitated billows were rolling to and fro. Not only were the...of a breeze, or the passing currents of air which E reduce what the sailors call a cat's-paw. The illows may have been raised by the force which elevated... | |
 | 724 pages
...bounded by distant mountains. Once it had certainly been in a fluid state, but appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy...the passing currents of air which produce what the tailors call a cat's-paw. The billows may have been raised by the force which elevated the mounds or... | |
 | Science - 1826 - 446 pages
...heated air, into conical mounds, from six to twelve feet high, which were rent in a number of instances from the apex to the base. The hollows between the...currents of air, which produce what the sailors call a " cats-paw." The sun had risen now in his strength, and his bright rays reflected from the sparkling... | |
 | William Ellis - Hawaii - 1826 - 476 pages
...bounded by distant mountains. Once it had certainly been in a fluid state, but appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy...currents of air which produce what the sailors call a cat's-paw. The billows may have been raised by the force which elevated the mounds or hills, but they... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - Earthquakes - 1826 - 504 pages
...bounded by distant mountains Once it had certainly been in a fluid state, but appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy...like that observed on the surface of the sea at the springing up of a breeze, or the passing currents of air, which produce what the sailors call a cat's-pay.... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - Earthquakes - 1826 - 512 pages
...bounded by distant mountains Once it had certainly been in a fluid state, but appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy...and fro. Not only were the large swells and hollows distinctly.marked, but in many places the surface of these billows was covered by a smaller ripple,... | |
 | William Ellis - Hawaii - 1827 - 542 pages
...bounded by distant mountains. Once it had certainly been in a fluid state, but appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy...currents of air which produce what the sailors call a cat's-paw. The billows may have been raised by the force which elevated the mounds or hills, but they... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 750 pages
...by distant mountains. Once it had certainly been in a fluid state, but it now appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy...currents of air, which produce what the sailors call a cat's-paw. About 2 pm the crater of Kairua suddenly burst upon our view. We expected to have seen a... | |
 | Gift books - 1842 - 258 pages
...suddenly petrified, or hardened, while its billows were rolling to and fro ; and not only were the larger swells and hollows distinctly marked, but in many places the surface of these billows was covered with a smaller ripple, like that on the surface of the sea on the first awakening of a breeze. This... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - Earthquakes - 1848 - 902 pages
...bounded by distant mountains. Once it had certainly been in a fluid state, but appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy...like that observed on the surface of the sea at the springing up of a breeze, or the passing currents of air, which produce what the sailors call a cat's-paw.... | |
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This vast tract of lava resembled in appearance an inland sea, bounded by distant mountains. Once it had certainly been in a fluid state, but appeared as if it had become suddenly petrified, or turned into a glassy stone, while its agitated billows were... 
