The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 182
ide, and 800 feet deep, with a constantly boilinglake of fire at the bottom. Let any reader who wishes to form some ideaof a stream of lava go to see an iron-furnacewhen the iron is being drawn. The melted metal,so bright that it blinds the eye, spouts out fromthe opening in the furnace, and… … XV—12 CRATER OF KII.AUEA, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 168 MARVELS OF EARTH AND OCEAN lava soon cools, the surface rises like yeast, andbecomes spongy and hard, and cracks up, and, ata distance from the source, the lava-stream lookslike a river of furnace-clinkers moving slowlyalong, the fragments on the…
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