Two of his regiments, the Eighteenth and Twenty-second, occupied the works blown up on the morning of July 30th, and the immense displacement of earth which formed the crater maimed and buried many of the command.
Three shot, striking very near each other, on the east face and near the parapet, made a crater 10 feet high, 8 feet wide, and 2 feet deep.
As there was now a thick mist and drizzling rain, I did not attempt to go on to the summit that evening, but made two visits to it during my stay, as well as one to the active crater of Gedeh.
These seem to be forming continually, a small hole appearing first, which emits jets of steam and boiling mud, which upon hardening, forms a little cone with a crater in the middle.
Bart squinted through the eyepiece and saw a huge crater with a shadowed spire in its center.
That," Van was saying, "is a prominent crater near the Mare Nubium.
It answers in some respects to the idea I have formed of the crater of a violent valcano, but evidently is not that, as there is no mark of fire, the rock being composed, as it is in general throughout this country, of a sort of slate.
I measured the distance of the crater from the northern limb of the moon, and found it 3' 57".
Near this place there is a remarkable whirlpool, occasioned by a crater sixty-one fathoms deep in the centre, and from fifty to fifty-five on the sides.
On the 1st of July, the ancient crater had wholly disappeared, being filled with ashes and lava, and a new one was formed in the eastern part of the mountain, about 600 feet in depth, and having about the same width at the opening.
Over the crater hangs an illuminated vapor which may be seen at night over 200 miles distant.
A crater big enough to hold a church was blown out of the side of the Cayo Smith and was clearly seen from the ships.
The crater itself is constantly rent and shaken by earthquakes.
The drainage basin of Tower Creek coincides with the limits of the extinct crater of an ancient volcano.
To the Indians the crater was the mouth of hell in which tyrants had to be purified before they could enter the abode of the blest.
Neither men nor cattle retained any fear of the green crater depths.
It was so once with the crater of Vesuvius, which, after five centuries of rest, filled itself with oaks and beeches, and covered its slopes with fresh grass up to the very summit.
Amid such throes and pangs Monte Nuovo was born, and the events of that natal day suggest hesitation before we label any crater of the Phlegraean fields with the word "extinct.
The crater was casting out huge stones, with detonations resembling the discharge of whole parks of artillery at once.
This lava ceased flowing after a week, but the fumaroles still pointed out the clefts, and between the small re-made cone and the centralcrater a new crater of small dimensions and interrupted activity opened.
Early in 1871 the delicate instruments of the observatory which register earth tremors were observed to be slightly agitated, and the crater discharged a few incandescent projectiles, detonating at the same time, but not remarkably.
This little cone increased in size as well as in activity until it filled the crater and rose four or five metres above the brim.
The craterwas so deep that the descent and ascent occupied three hours.
Its bed was evidently once the crater of a volcano.
But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.
The physician prescribed a whole cooling snow-heaven for the purpose of snowing the crater full.
Before we had yet doubled the promontory of Posilippo, the crater of Vesuvius threw up its glowing child, the sun, slowly into the sky, and sea and earth blazed.
Between them and the row of heads yawned a huge shell crater, and as the platoon divided automatically to avoid the obstacle, a heavy volley across the crater caught them, and several of the running men pitched forward and lay where they fell.
The corporal clapped a hand to his head like one in a dream as the men of his company, whom he had outstripped, reached the edge of the crater above them.
Chimney, buildings, barbed wire, everything had disappeared, and where the brewery had stood the moment before a huge crater now yawned.
Bob Dashwood sprang on to a heap of bricks, and his words rang out even among the bang and clatter that filled the morning air: "Platoons One and Two, line the edge of that crater on your front, and hold your fire until they reach the water.
Very erect, he swung round and began to walk up the side of the crater in the direction of the French, and fifty voices cried: "He is right; we have all had enough!
Here and there a beech had been uprooted, and a great shell crater yawned where it had stood, and the scarred trunks and bare poles were stained orange and yellow and vivid metallic green by the explosive agents.
And for aught I know, or do not know, he is sweeping the crater of Etna to this very day.
After the first eruptions to which it owed its origin, the central craterof Epomeo apparently remained inactive.
Fontana," he says, "occupies the centre of the great crater of Epomeo.
These azimuths are twelve in number, and it is worthy of notice that they all intersected the crater of Epomeo, while half of them passed within a few hundred yards of Fontana.
The central feature of Ischia is the great crater of Epomeo (a, Fig.
On the other hand, at Fontana, which occupies approximately the centre of the crater of Epomeo, there were evidences of a distinctly stronger shock.
When that crater ceases to shoot forth flames, no throne in Europe will be safe for one night.
It lies below Signal Hill, with its dwarf ruined tower, a lumpy parasitic crater whose western slopes have been ruined by disforesting.
He judged the cave to be a crater of emission; and did not see the smoke or steam issuing from it as reported by the ice-collectors.
In the evening we were safely anchored within the zancle (sickle) of Messina-port, whose depth of water and circular shape have suggested an old crater flooded.
A young fellow in Arizona told a yarn of wandering about the crater of a meteor which had fallen on the desert thousands of years before.
Round the interior of the great crater in which we were ran a rugged path of broken masses of rock, between which streams of lava lay, and over them we had to pass.
She is certainly not exactly beautiful, but then she has such eyes; eyes that glow like a crater of passion, and her words are flaming rockets of enthusiasm.
I will not live to see it, but the crater will open and cast its abominable streams of lava over all Europe.
At last a light shone through the trees, and by a wooden bridge which led over another crater she came on a lonely house.
Some of the planks were missing, and moving carefully around the crater she heard others tip and groan beneath her.
Again she got down, and found a road of planks, shored up by branches of trees, leading round on the left edge of the crater to firm land on the other side.
They hardly allowed themselves a moment's repose, and the glare of the flames which shot from the crater enabled them to work night and day.
The aperture of the crater being thus enlarged projected towards the sky a glare so intense that by the simple effect of reflection the atmosphere appeared red-hot.
But the corral would be in great danger should a new crateropen in the southern side of Mount Franklin.
Above the new crater a cloud of smoke and ashes, mingled with those of the atmosphere, massed over the island.
But, during the night of the 8th an enormous column of vapour escaping from the crater rose with frightful explosions to a height of more than three thousand feet.
Above the forest were passing large clouds, to which the crater of Mount Franklin incessantly added fuliginous matter.
Already for three months had the crater emitted vapours more or less dense, but which were as yet produced only by an internal ebullition of mineral substances.
Mount Franklin was now hooded by a sombre cloud of sinister aspect, and, amid the flames, vomited forth incandescent rocks, some of which fell back into the crater itself.
But the crater could not afford a sufficient outlet for this vapour.
The crater was again boiling with lava which overflowed the back of the volcano.
Below them was thecrater of the Pit and in its center a smooth bluish-black hemisphere protruded from the crater floor.
He pointed a camera at the crater and snapped the shutter.
The Pit was merely another crater in the pitted ground.
This indicates that the temperature of the crateris constant; it is probably that at which carbon volatilizes.
