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 ...T. Cadell, 1774 - 179 pàgines |
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Pàgina 141 - ... same force; the third day the eruption ceased, and I went up with many people to the top of the new hill, and saw down into its mouth, which was a round cavity about a quarter of a mile in circumference, in the middle of which the stones which had fallen were boiling up just as a caldron of water boils on the fire.
Pàgina 100 - Herculaneum was swallowed up ; but we are informed by unquestionable authority, that "the matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum is not the produce of one eruption only; for there are evident marks, that the matter of six eruptions has taken its course over that which lies immediately above the town, and was the cause of its destruction. These strata are either of lava or burnt matter, with veins of good soil betwixt them...
Pàgina 128 - I was either myself an eye-witness, or as they were related to me by those who had been witnesses of them. It is now two years that there have been frequent earthquakes at Pozzuolo, at Naples, and the neighbouring parts ; on the day and in the night before the appearance of this eruption above twenty shocks great and small were felt at the above-mentioned places.
Pàgina 155 - There are many other fifing grounds in this ifland, that, from the nature of their compofition, muil lead one to think the fame as to their origin. Near the village of Caftiglione, there is a mountain formed furely by an explofion of a much later date, having preferved its conical form and crater entire, and producing as yet but a flender vegetation : there is no account, however, of the date of this eruption. Nearer the town of Ifchia, which is on the fea fliore, at a place called Le Cremate, there...
Pàgina 91 - I fhall convince you, as I am myfelf convinced, that the whole circuit (fo far as I have examined) within the boundaries marked in the map is wholly and totally the production of fubterraneous fires; and that moft probably the fea formerly reached the mountains that lie behind Capua and Caferta, and are a continuation of the Appenines. If I may be allowed to compare fmall things with great, I imagine the fubterraneous fires to have worked in this country, under the bottom of the fea, as moles in...
Pàgina 86 - Till the year 252 of Chrift, the chronological accounts of "the eruptions of Etna are very imperfect : but as the veil of St. Agatha was in that year firft oppofed to check the violence of the torrents of lava, 'and has ever fince been produced at the time of great eruptions ; the miracles attributed to its influence, having been carefully recorded by the priefts, have at leaft preferved the dates of fuch eruptions. The relicks of St. Januarius have rendered the fame fervice to...
Pàgina 60 - Winchelsea, Earl of. True and Exact Relation of the late prodigious Earthquake and Eruption of Mount Etna, or Monte Gibello. 4to. Cambridge. Printed by SG and MJ 1670.
Pàgina 132 - This continued two days and nights, when the fmoka and force of the fire began to abate. The fourth day, which was Thurfday at...
Pàgina 84 - The molt extenfive lavas of Vefuvius do not exceed feven miles in length ; the operations of nature on the one mountain and the other are certainly the fame; but on mount Etna, all are upon a great fcale. As to the nature and quality of their lavas, they are much the fame; but I thi«nk thofe of' Etna rather blacker, and in general more porous, than thofe of Vefuvius.
Pàgina 68 - They are all more or lefs covered, even within their craters, as well as the rich valleys between them, with the largeft...