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 / To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.

  • Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.
Date:
1774
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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 / To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.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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    tient lavas. Since the cefTation of this eruption, I have examined the crater, and the crack on the fide of the mountain to¬ wards 'Torre dell* Annunciata, about a hundred yards from the crater from whence this lava bailed : and I found therein fome very curious falts and fulphurs *, a fpecimen of each iort I have put into bottles myfelf, evep upon the mountain, that they might not lofe any of their force, and have fent them in a box directed to your Lord- Ihip, as you will fee by the bill of lad¬ ing r I am fare, you will have a pleafure in feeing them analyzed [<?]. I have alfo packed in the fame box fome lava, and cin¬ ders, of the laft eruption ; there is one piece in particular very curious, having the exafi appearance of a cable petrified. I fhall be very happy if thefe trifles fhould af- N f ^ ls.te Lord Morton was plealed to give theie fpecimens to Or. Morris, who has made feveral chemical experiments on them, the refult of which will be com¬ municated to the Royal Society. ford