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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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![* ing up, juft as in a great cauldron of *¢ water that boils on the fire. ‘Fhe fourth *‘ day it began to throw up again, and the *¢ feventh much more, but ftill with lefs * violence than the firft night ; it was at this , “time that many people, who were un- «© fortunately on the mountain, were either ** fuddenly covered with afhes, {mothered «< with fmoke, or knocked down by ftones, « burnt by the fame, and left dead cn the *‘ fpot. The fmoke continues to this “ day [q], and you often fee in the night- * time fire in the midft of. it. Finally, to «‘ complete the hiftery of this new and << unforefeen event, in many parts of the * new-made mountain, fulphur begins to * be generated.” Giacomo di Toledo, to- wards the end of his differtation upon {g] The cup, or crater, on the top of the new moun- tain is now covered with fhrubs; but I difcovered at the bottom of it, in the year 1770, amidit the bufhes, a fmall hole, which exhales a conftant hot and damp vapour, juftfuch as proceeds from boiling water, and with as little fmell; the drops of this fleam hang upon theneighbouring bufhes. - . fs the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32996676_0159.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
