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...moments rendered us mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with our ejes riveted on tbe abyss below. Immediately before us yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800... | |
 | 1826 - 520 Seiten
...situate about twenty miles from the seashore in the interior. It is thus described in the journal. ' Immediately before us yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, upwards of two miles in length, about a mile across, and apparently eight hundred feet deep. The bottom... | |
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...Itself before us — ' We stopped and trembled.' Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with our eyes rivetted on the abyss below. Immediately before us yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent,... | |
 | 1826 - 570 Seiten
...before us — ' " We stopped, and trembled." Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with...yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800... | |
 | William Ellis - 1826 - 476 Seiten
...before us — " We stopped, and trembled." Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with...yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800... | |
 | 1826 - 606 Seiten
...itself before us— " We stopped, and trembled." Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with...yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from north-east to southwest, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800... | |
 | 1826 - 568 Seiten
...before us — ' " We stopped, and trembled." Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with...yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800... | |
 | 1826 - 608 Seiten
...before us — " We stopped, and trembled." Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with...yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from north-east to southwest, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800... | |
 | 1826 - 538 Seiten
...before us — " "We stopped, and trembled." Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with...yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from northeast to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1826 - 504 Seiten
...edge of the great crater, where a spectacle sublime, and even appalling, presented itself before us. Immediately before us yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles in length, from NE to SW nearly a mile in width, and apparently eight hundred feet... | |
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... feet deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its 
