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The gallery of nature and art; or, a tour through creation and science. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanoes, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature. Forming a rich and comprehensive view of all that is interesting and curious in every part of the habitable world. By the Rev. E. Polehampton, and John M. Good, F.R.S. Illustrated by one hundred engravings / [Edward Thomas William Polehampton].

Polehampton, Edward (Edward Thomas William), 1777?-1830.

Date:: 1821

Credit: The gallery of nature and art; or, a tour through creation and science. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanoes, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature. Forming a rich and comprehensive view of all that is interesting and curious in every part of the habitable world. By the Rev. E. Polehampton, and John M. Good, F.R.S. Illustrated by one hundred engravings / [Edward Thomas William Polehampton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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the summits of Anahuac that rise above the region of perpetual-snow- These summits are either volcanoes still actually burning ; or moun- tains, the form of which, as well as the nature of their rocks, renders: it extremely probable, that they formerly contained subterranean fire. Setting out from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and proceeding westward, we find the peak of Oribaza, the two volcanoes of la Puebla, the Nevado de Teluca, the peak of Tancitaro, and the volcano of Colima. These great heights, instead of forming the ridge of the cordillera of Anahuac, and following its direction, which is from 8S. E. to N. W. are on the contrary iv a line perpendicular to the axis of the great chain of mountains. — It is certainly worthy of remark, that in the year 1759 the new volcano of Jorullo was formed inthe con- tinuation of this line, and on the same parallel as the ancient Mexican volcanoes. A view of my plan of the environs of Jorullo will shew, that the six large hummocks have risen out of the earth on a vein that crosses the plain from the cerro of las Cuevas to the pichaco del Montero. The new mouths of Vesuvius too are found ranged along a fissure. Do not these analogies give us reason to suppose, that there exists in this part of Mexico, at a great depth within the earth, a fissure stretching from east to west through a space of 137 leagues [343 miles], and through which the volcanic fire has made its way at dif- ferent times, bursting the outer crust of porphyritic rocks, from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to the South Sea? Is this fissure pro- longed to that little group of islands, called by Colluet the Archi- pelago of Regigedo, and round which, in the same parallel with the Mexican volcanoes, pumice stone has been seen floating? Naturalists who distinguish the facts offered by descriptive mineralogy from theoretical reveries concerning the primitive state of our planet, will pardon me for having consigned these observations to the general map of New Spain, contained in the Mexican Atlas. [ Humboldt, as above.},

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