1895 J. D. Dana (ed. 4) 279 In cases, outside of the lava-lakes, where the bubbles are bursting beneath an opening in the bottom of the crater, the vapors and lava driblets escape from the aperture with a rush and a roar. The driblet-cone, thus made, is sometimes called a blowing-cone.
1902 4 Sept. 441/1 (heading) The lava-lake of Kilauea.
1902 4 Sept. 441/2 I carefully observed the then existing lava-lake during six successive days.