. An Account of the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in 1767: In a Letter to the Earl of Morton, President of the Royal Society, from the Honourable William Hamilton, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at Naples. mitage, between which md Vefuvius there is a deep valley two miles broad- 4. The Fofli Grande. 5. His Sicilian Majeflys Palace at Portici. 6. Church of Pugliano* y. Calmaldolefe Convent, near which is my Saint Spot, under which lies Herculancum. [ ^4 ] PLATE 11. A. Crater of Vefuvius. B. Mouth, from whence came the lava of 1766, and which opened afrefh at two ocl
. An Account of the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in 1767: In a Letter to the Earl of Morton, President of the Royal Society, from the Honourable William Hamilton, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at Naples. mitage, between which md Vefuvius there is a deep valley two miles broad- 4. The Fofli Grande. 5. His Sicilian Majeflys Palace at Portici. 6. Church of Pugliano* y. Calmaldolefe Convent, near which is my Saint Spot, under which lies Herculancum. [ ^4 ] PLATE 11. A. Crater of Vefuvius. B. Mouth, from whence came the lava of 1766, and which opened afrefh at two oclock,Odober 19, 1767, and caafed the confla-gration on this fide of the mountain, C. Mouth which opened at la oclock, Odober 19, 1767, whilfti was at the fpotx, andwhich produced all the lava reprefented inPlan I. D. Rivulets of lava, which flowed from the crater, and united with the great river * Extremities of th^ lava, about five milesfrom B. %. Mountain of 5omma, 2. Mount Vefuvius. 3. Montagna di Trecafe, 4. Trecafe. 5. Oratorio di BofcOi 6. Ottaiano. PLAT E III. Views of the gradual increafe of the little mountainwithin the ancient crater j and of the prefentfliape of Mount Vefuvius* Received. I
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