Some Particulars of the Present State of Mount Vesuvius; With the Account of a Journey into the Province of Abruzzo, and a Voyage to the Island of PonzaIn a Letter from Sir William Hamilton, KBFRSand ASto Sir Joseph Banks, BartPRS. . ria an<fat Meffina, as to encourage the inhabitants to begin to re-*huild their houfes, and they continue to live in wooden bar-racks. There has, however, been no earthquake of confe-^quence during thefe kft three months. My conjedure, thatthe volcanic matter (which was fuppofed to. have occafionedthe late earthquakes) had vented itlelf at the bottom of thefeab
Some Particulars of the Present State of Mount Vesuvius; With the Account of a Journey into the Province of Abruzzo, and a Voyage to the Island of PonzaIn a Letter from Sir William Hamilton, KBFRSand ASto Sir Joseph Banks, BartPRS. . ria an<fat Meffina, as to encourage the inhabitants to begin to re-*huild their houfes, and they continue to live in wooden bar-racks. There has, however, been no earthquake of confe-^quence during thefe kft three months. My conjedure, thatthe volcanic matter (which was fuppofed to. have occafionedthe late earthquakes) had vented itlelf at the bottom of thefeabetweeHi Calabria and Sicily, leem to have been verified jfor the pilot of one of his Sicilian Majeflys fciabecques, hav-ing fbme time after the earthquakes cafl: anchor off the point©f Palizzi, where he had often anchored in twenty-five fathorp.^ater, found no bottoni tillf hei camt^^ to and having founded for two miles out at lea towards the poiiit ofSpartivento in Calabria, he fliU found the fame confid^rablealteration in the depth of the foa. The inhabitants of Pallzzilike wife declare^ that during the great earthquake of the 5th ofFebruary, 1783» the fea liid^^^^^^ 1^^ boiled up tremens dou% off their 1 1!: t ifphiltrans06146445. 16
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