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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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![Thus, my Lord, ‘ai had the ho- nor of giving your Lordthip a faithful narrative of my obfervations ‘ during this eruption, ‘which is univerfally allowed to have been ‘the moft violent of this century-; ; and I fhall be happy; if it fhould meet with your approbation, and that of the Royal ‘Society, if your. Lofdthip thould think it worthy of being communicated to fo refpectable a body, . I have juft fent a prefent to the Britifh Mufeum of a complete collection of every fort of matter produced by Mount Ve- fuvius, which I have been colle&ting with fome pains for thefe three years paft; and it will be.a great. fatisfaction to me, if, by the means of this collection, fome of my countrymen, learned in natural hiftory, may be enabled to make fome ufeful dif- coyeries relative to Volcanos [7]. {z} “ I am well convinced, by this collection, that ¢¢ many variegated marbles, and many precious ftones, ‘*¢ are the produce of Volcanos; and that there have * been Volcanos in many parts of the world, where at I have](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32996676_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
