 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - Finance - 1847 - 224 pages
...perfect. The greateruumberconsisted merely of a ring of red scoriae or slags, cemented together, aud 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... | |
 | Frédéric Zurcher - 1868 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 586 pages
...craters more or less perfect. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoriae or slag*, 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 pages
...surmounted by craters more or less perfect. The greater number consisted merely of a ring of red scoria 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1908 - 542 pages
...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 2yrd.—The Beagle proceeded... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 564 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...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... | |
 | William Healey Dall - Pulmonata - 1913 - 660 pages
...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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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... 
