... the principal crater, I lit my pipe at the nearest lava coulee and returned to camp. There, sitting by my tent upon the high bank of volcanic ■and, for a long time I sat gazing the vast fountains of fire that in a continuous stream assailed the sky with ...

... (GermamDictionarjr that happens to in possession : Iccl. ver ; Ang.- Sax. warr, war; Eng. weir (as Salmon weir); Old Germ. wrrt, high bank; Oerm. wehr, dam, dyke, and (icrrder), denoting place raised up along, isle situated in river, also dam. Whence the usmes ...

... Close to the sea there was a piece of ground approaching to a semicircular form, and naturally protected on the west by high banks, on the south by the ocean, and strengthened in other places by artificial embankments of earth. This fortification was ...

... Hills, and with interstiio of homblend-slate and quartz. After walking due south from Spigga for a distance of tmiles along high banks of sienite, this rock had the appearance of repo3ing upon strata of gneiss and mica-slate. At this place commences the ...

... received a true Saxon IVaes had. FLADIBISTER TO SCALLOWAT. From Fladibister to Quarf, the road leads for several miles over high banks much i n dented by the sea; these are formed of conglomerate rocks and sandstone, from beneath which occasionally appeared ...

... loose stones. These remains, which were probably ancient Tings or Courts of Judicature, are now much injured. Descending the high banks on the east, I came in view of the open bay of Gruting, and after having become an inmate, for one night, at the house of ...

... grand natural arch of considerable height, and wide enough to admit the sailing of a boat for a distance of 300 feet. The high banks of Burra Firth, and the stacks contiguous to it, are frequented by numerous flocks of birds, such as gulls and scarfs; and ...

... not their terror. To the west of Refirth is a dell that leads to another voe of the name of Whalefirth, confined within high banks, open to the Atlantic, and beset at its entrance with dangerous rocks. Refirth and Whalefirth nearly divide the island into ...

... slope, especially if one came up towards it on a raistv day. In front of it the hill ran down steeply till it ended in the high banks of the voe, and down there the sea was nearly always rumbling among the black rocks. The ground fell quickly out in front ...

... between the rate of interest paid by the j purchasers and the rate at which they, the builders, borrowed the money. The recent high bank rate has, however, wiped out this margin of profit, with the disastrous results already mentioned. Other causes have operated ...

... c., with a drain leading from it to the public sewer, but which has no water connection with it. It is situated below a high bank of earth caused by the steep incline of Law Lane, and the bottom of this bank there is considerable amount of water running ...

... of nilroclvcerine, btorpd in of the wooden huts wlnc.i are dctt- d all over the ground, and separated frora each other bv high banks of sand, had exploded. Only one man was engaged at work in the hut at the lime of the occurrence, and lie is missing, tni ...