. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Miles. strata of ice and ashes discharge rivulets of thermal waters. Lastly, this focus of activity is connected by the arc of a circle passing by the south pole with the three lofty cones of Erebus, Terror, and Melbourne, the first of Avhich still casts a lurid light over the dreary waste of snow. Between these giants and New Zealand the vast circuit is completed by a succession of islands and headlands, partly at least composed of lavas. Within the circuit itself occur the lines of faults, through which have been vomited mountains of scoriae or ashe
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Miles. strata of ice and ashes discharge rivulets of thermal waters. Lastly, this focus of activity is connected by the arc of a circle passing by the south pole with the three lofty cones of Erebus, Terror, and Melbourne, the first of Avhich still casts a lurid light over the dreary waste of snow. Between these giants and New Zealand the vast circuit is completed by a succession of islands and headlands, partly at least composed of lavas. Within the circuit itself occur the lines of faults, through which have been vomited mountains of scoriae or ashes, and most of these cones run in parallel lines
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