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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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 To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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![ter is fit for vegetation, we may conceive the great age of this refpectable Volcano. The choinwt- trees predominated in the parts through which we pafied, and, though of a very great fize, are not to be com- pared to fome on another part of the Regione Selvofa, called Carpinetto. I have been told by many, and particularly by. our guide, who had meafured the Jargeft there, called La Caftagna di Cento Cavalli, that it 3s upwards .of twenty- eight. Neapolitan :canes in circumference. New as a Neapolitan cane 1s two yards and half a quarter, Englifh meafure, you may judge, Sir, of the immenfe fize of this fa- mous. tree [x]. It is hollow from age, but there is another near it almoft as large and found. As it would have required a journey of two days to have vifited this extraor- {«] Thave heard fince, from fome of our country- amen who have meafured this tree, that its dimenfions are actually as abovementioned; but that they could perceive fome figns of four flems having grown toge- ' aher, and formed one tree. F 3 dinary](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32996676_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
