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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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![up in a long feries of ages by various ex- plofions from fubterraneous fire. Surely there are ac prefent many exifting Vol- canos in the known world; and the me- mory of many others have been handed down>to us by hiftory. May there not therefore have been many others, of fuch ancient dates.as to be out of the reach of hiftory [#]? | Such wonderful operations of Nature are certainly intended by: all-wife Provi- dence for fome great purpofe.s They are not confined to any one part of the globe, for there are Volcanos exifting in the four quarters of it. We fee the great fertility of the foil thrown up by explofion, in part of the country I have defcribed, which on that account was called by the ancients [x] Any one, the leaft converfant in Volcanos, mutt Be ftruck with the numberlefs evident marks of them the whole road from the lake of Albano to Radicofani, between Naples and Florence; and yet, though this foil bears fuch frefh and undoubted marks of its origin, no hiftory reaches the date of any one eruption in thefe parts. Campania](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32996676_0178.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
