All this while we were advancing on our journey; and at length night came; but as I had remarked the evening before, the luminous state of the atmosph...

It was a glorious sight to see how the electric light brought out the sparkles in the walls of the calcareous rocks, and the old red sandstone. One mi...

There rose high submarine cliffs covered with large weeds. It was about eleven o’clock when Ned Land drew my attention to a formidable pricking, like ...

But that which served as steps under our feet became in other places stalactites. The lava, very porous in certain places, took the form of little rou...