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 / To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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 / To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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![from time to time, I could perceive its increafe moll minutely. I make no doubt but that the whole of Mount Vefuvius has been formed in the fame manner; and as thele obfervations feem to me to account for the various irregular ftrata, which are met with in the neighbourhood of Vol¬ canos, I have ventured to inclofe, for your Lordfhip’s infpe£Hon, a copy of the above- mentioned drawings. (Plate III.) The lava continued to run over the ancient crater' in fmall ftreams, fometimes on one fide, and fometimes on another, till the 18th of Odtober, when I took par¬ ticular notice that there was not the leait lava to be feen *, owing, I imagine, to its being employed in forcing its way towards the place where it burll out the following day. As I had, contrary to the opinion of mofl people here, foretold the approach¬ ing eruption [^], and had obferved a [g] It is certain, that, by conftant attention-to the fmoak that iffues from the crater, a very good guefs may be given as to the degree of fermentation within C 4 great](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3051390x_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
