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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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![trom time to tme, I could: perceive its ancreafe moft minutely. . lL make no doubt ‘but that the whole of Mount Vefuvius has ‘been formed in the fame manner; and as othefe: obfervations feem>to me to: account ‘for the various: irregular {trata, which. are ‘met with in the eleb laine of: Vol- canos,:I ‘have ventured to inclofe, for your Lordthip’s infpestion, fa copy of the above- mentioned: drawings; 2)(Plate IID.) 0. The lava contintied to run over. aie “ancient crater in ‘fmall ftreams;:fometimes -on one? fidé, and<fometimes: on canother, *tillthe-18th of OGober, when 1 took: par- ticular notice that there was not the leatt lava to be feen; “oWing, T imagine, tO its being employed in- Ground its way towards the place where it burft out the- following day. As I-had, contrary to the opinion of moft people here, foretold the approach- ing eruption [g], and had obferyed a GTS: Yt is certain, that, by conftant uate to the ~ finoak that iffues frora the crater, avery good guefs may be given az to the degree of fermentation within . Br reat](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32996676_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
