Paradise in the Pacific a book of Travel Adventure And Facts in the Sandwich
The book Paradise in the Pacific a book of Travel Adventure And Facts in the Sandwich was written by author Bliss, William Root, 1825-1906 Here you can read free online of Paradise in the Pacific a book of Travel Adventure And Facts in the Sandwich book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Paradise in the Pacific a book of Travel Adventure And Facts in the Sandwich a good or bad book?
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Even the spasmodic crater of Mauna Loa adds confirmation to it. Eruptions from the craters of Mauna Loa have occasionally extended the cir- cumference of the Island of Hawaii. This occurred in 1840, when, for three GREAT ERUPTIONS. Ill weeks, a flood of lava poured out of the mountain, and running forty miles, sweep- ing away forests and plantations, leaped into the sea over precipices fifty feet high. The coast was pushed out a quarter of a mile, a sand - beach and new cape were made, and sand...-hills two hundred feet high erected near the shore. During several months in 1855, the mountain poured out lava, which, shaping itself into an impetuous river, seventy miles long, from one to five miles wide, from ten to one hundred feet deep, plunged into the sea as before. In 1859, the mountain again threw out streams of lava, which uniting, and cutting a deep canal through the soil more than fifty feet wide, ran nearly sixty miles in three days, and debouched into the sea. And again, in 1868, after a long succession of earthquakes, and ejections of mud and hot water, the lava burst forth, and flowing upon the graziug- plains below, consuming houses, trees, and 112 PARADISE IN 111K PACIFIC.
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