Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal society, from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton ... / To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.
- William Hamilton
- Date:
- 1774
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal society, from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton ... / To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![~of afhes and ftones, within the great mouth of the Volcano, and which made the ap¬ proach much fafer than it had been fome days before, when the mouth was near half a mile in circumference, and the ftones took every dire£lion. Mr. Hervey, bro¬ ther to the Earl of Briftol, was very much wounded in the arm fome days before the eruption, having approached too near; and two Englifh gentlemen with him were alfo hurt. It is impofiible to deferibe the beau¬ tiful appearance of thefe girandoles of red hot ftones, far furpailing the moft aftonifti- ing artificial fire-work. From the 31ft of March to the 9th of April, the lava continued on the fame fide of the mountain, in two, three, and fometimes four branches, without defend¬ ing much lower than the firft night. I remarked a kind of intermiffion in the fe¬ ver of the mountain [r], which femed to return [<r] In the fubfequent eruptions of Vcfuvius, I have conftantly remarked fomething of the fame nature, as • - appears #](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3051390x_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
