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A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.

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A sudden release of pressure or tension.

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There was an eruption of joy at the final whistle.

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An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.

This eruption was attended with great it estruction of life and property.

The last eruption of Mauna Hualalai was in 1801.

These comprise dyspepsia, skin eruption and the manifestations which are usually identified with a "cold in the head."

The next eruption, and the one after it, gave insufficient light to help, but then a multiple display hung in the sky like a full moon, giving time for his eyes to search left and right.

Formerly, on the eve of a great eruption of Mauna Loa, this crater often spouted forth great columns of flame and emitted clouds of vapour, but in modern times this action has usually been followed by a fracture of the mountain side from the summit down to a point moo ft.

The eruption ceased in 1863, but broke out again in 1864.

From the existing remains it is clear that the inhabitants were still actively engaged in repairing and restoring the ruined edifices when the whole city was overwhelmed by the great eruption of A.D.

Eruption in 1905, when the main crater was enlarged to a length of 3000 ft.

Tambora, forming a minor peninsula east of Sumbawa Bay, is said to have lost a third of its elevation in the eruption of 1815, but is still 9055 ft.

At the beginning of the Christian era, and for many previous centuries, no eruption had been known to take place from the mountain, and the volcanic nature of the locality was perhaps not even suspected by the inhabitants who planted their vineyards along its fertile slopes, and built their numerous villages and towns around its base.

The first recorded eruption of Mauna Loa was in 1832; since then there have been eruptions in 1851, 1852, 1855, 1859, 1868, 1880-1881, 1887, 1896,1899 and 1907.

Turialba (10,910), adjoining Irazu on the east, was in eruption in 1866.

By the end of the 15th century n he mountain had resumed much the same general aspect as it is resented before the eruption described by Pliny.

After a repose of about two centuries the Nevado de Chinn broke out in eruption early in 1861 and caused great destruction.

Above it rises the fourcratered volcano of Pacaya (8390 ft.), which was in eruption in 1870.

Ambato was destroyed by an eruption of Cotopaxi in 1698, and has been badly damaged two or three times by earthquakes.

Mauna Kea is not nearly so old as the Kohala Mountains, but there is no record of its eruption, nor have its lavas a modern aspect.

Two other states on the northern extremity of the island were so far devastated by the Tambora eruption of 1815 that their territory, after lying for long uninhabited, was in 1866 divided between Dompo and Sangar.

Eruptions are recorded for the years 1830, 1855 and 1858; and another eruption occurred in 1904.

He found that the real cone of eruption was an irregular heap 250 ft.

The rescue of Catania from fire during an eruption of Mount Etna was later attributed to St Agatha's veil.

The volcano was in eruption in 1670, 1782, 1857 and 1902.

The building up of these domes of lavas of intermediate chemical type was followed by the eruption of sheets of andesites and rhyolites in the Thames English Miles so Ioo 200 Cretaceous 'a '

Its most notable eruption was in 1777.

On the occasion of outbreaks the fine ashes are scattered over a large portion of the island, and sometimes carried far across the Atlantic. After the eruption of Katla in 1625 the ashes were blown as far as Bergen in Norway, and when Askja was in eruption in 1875 a rain of ashes fell on the west coast of Norway II hours 40 minutes, and at Stockholm 15 hours, afterwards.

Many of our passengers went to visit the excavations at these famous towns buried by the eruption of Mount Etna in 79 AD.

A more violent explosive eruption can happen in near future.

Poas (8895), the scene of a violent eruption in 1834, begins a fresh series of igneous peaks, some with flooded craters, some with a constant escape of smoke and vapour.

This eminence is itself due to an outflow of lava from that mountain, during some previous eruption in prehistoric times, for we know from Strabo that Vesuvius had been quiescent ever since the first records of the Greek settlements in this part of Italy.

Sangay, or Sangai, the next and last large volcano to the south, is in a state of frequent eruption, however, and is known as one of the most restless volcanoes of the world.

The last happily broke down the western side of the crater, which, it is believed, will ensure the city against harm in any subsequent eruption.

In 123 B.C. there was an eruption of Etna so violent that the tithe on the territory of Catina payable to Rome was remitted for ten years.

Only a few eruptions have been recorded of any of these, however, except Taal and Mayon, and there has been no great eruption of Taal since 1754.

There are no certain historic records of any eruption.

When the true skin is inflamed various appearances may arise, according to the intensity and extent of the inflammation, and the eruption may be papular, vesicular, pustular, tubercular, bulbous or ulcerative.

The former considerable fishing and coasting trade was ruined by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, a large stretch of coast line and the seaport towns of Charingin and Anjer being destroyed by the inundation.

There seem to have been two periods of eruption, and as some of the lavas have flowed over Quaternary gravels, the latest outbursts must have been of very recent date.

In 1825 another volcanic eruption took place accompanied by earthquakes, and two hills were thrown up. The port of Naos on the south-east of the island affords safe anchorage.

The crater chain of Laki has only been in eruption once in historic times, namely, the violent and disastrous outbreak of 1783.

The lagoon is slowly filling up and becoming cultivable land, but the rate of recovery from the sea has been specially marked since the eruption of Krakatoa, the pumice from which was washed on to it in enormous quantity, so that the lagoon advanced its shores from 20 to 30 yards.

Our house was destroyed by the volcanic eruption of 21 September 1997.

The explosive activity last culminated with the Minoan eruption at ca.

A universal papular and vesicular eruption appeared in a man a few hours after he smoked Indian hemp (Beliaev 1964 ).

In 1669 an eruption of Etna partly filled up the harbour, but spared the town, which was, however, almost entirely destroyed by the earthquake of 1693.

The principal mountain in the latter, Hal-la-san (or Mount Auckland), according to Chinese stories, was in eruption in the year 1007.

In 1883 Sunda Strait was the scene of the most terrific results of the eruption of Krakatoa, a volcanic island further west in the strait.

Although the anti-toxins which are used in the cure of infective diseases are not dangerous to life, yet they sometimes cause unpleasant consequences, more especially an urticarial eruption almost exactly like that which follows eating mussels or other shell-fish.

The best-known volcano is Hekla (5108 ft.), which was in eruption eighteen times within the historic period down to 1845.

Some bright spots are visible by the earth-light when the moon is a thin crescent, which were supposed by Herschel to be volcanoes in eruption.

Their eruption commences a few days after birth, and is complete before the end of the first year, the upper teeth usually appearing somewhat earlier than the lower.