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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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:
- 1772
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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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![fand upon the fea fhore, and even that which is wafhed by the: fea itfelf, is burn- ing hot for above the {pace of an hundred yards; if you take up: a handful of the fand below water, you are obliged to get rid of it directly, on account of its intenfe heat. I had been long very defirous of meet- ing with a good account of the formation of this new mountain, becaufe, proving this mountain to have been raifed by mere explofion in a plain, would prove at the fame time, that all the neighbouring moun- tains, which are compofed of the fame ma- terials, and have exactly or in part the fame form, were raifed in the like manner ; and that the feat of fire, the caufe of thefe explofions, lies deep; which I have every reafon to think. Fortunately, I] lately found two very good accounts of the phenomena that at- tended the explofion, which formed the new mountain, publifhed a few months after the event. As ‘ think them very cu- rious,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32996676_0144.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
