The crater was the subject of what to Mark Woolston was a most painful law-suit.

The crater itself was fully half a mile in diameter, and, at that moment, was quite a thousand feet in height above the sea.

As a last objection, the Reef had no great extent, and no variety, the eye taking it all in at a glance, while the crater was its sole relief against the dullest monotony.

The craters of the Cascades were fire breathers and fountains of liquid flame.

And he tower'd with pride as he spoke, "If again with these magical colours I fail, The crater of Etna shall hence be my jail, And my food shall be sulphur and smoke.

The crater is perhaps a league in circumference, it is highest on the northern side, and its interior is shaped like an egg-shell: the depth of the crater apparently extends half-way down the height of the mountain.