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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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![time of Titus, deftroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii. ‘ The eruption of 1766 wadilnad in fome degree till the 10th of December, about ine mofiths in all[ f]§ yet in that ifpace of time the mountain did not caft up a third of the quantity of lava, which it dif gorged in only feven days, the term of this laft eruption. On the 15th -of. De- céember, laft year, within the ancient crater of Mount Vefuvius, and abox ut “twenky [7] From se hias I have feen and read J eruptions of Vefuvius and Etna, I am convinced that Volcano’s lie dormant for {eVeral years, hay even for centuties, as probably was the café of Wefiivids befSre its eiiip- tion in the teign Of. Titus, and certainly wa’; fo before, that of the year 1631, W hen I arrived at Naples in 1764, Vefuvius Was quiet, very feldom Fnoke was vifible on its’ top; ; in the year 1766, it feémed to take fire, and has never fincé been. three ‘months without ejther throwing up red hot itones, or difgorging itreams of lav 2, nor has j its crater -been ever free from inioke. At Naples, Wheh a lava appears, and sot till then, % it ftyled an eription ; whereas 1 look tipon fe five “no- minal eriptions I have been witnéfs to, from March 1706 t9 May 1771, as, in cHect, but one continued eruption, 4 feet](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32996676_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
