| Sir William Hamilton - 1773 - 204 σελίδες
...CalUe-a- Mare the largeft do not weigh an ounce. .The matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum is not the produce of one eruption only; for there...either of lava or burnt matter, with veins of good foil between them. The ftratum of erupted matter that immediately covers the town, and with which the theatre... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1773 - 590 σελίδες
...matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum, is not the produce of one eruption only ; fpr there are evident marks that the matter of fix eruptions has taken iti courfe over that which lies immediately above the town, and was the caufe of its deftruftion. Thelè... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1774 - 210 σελίδες
...Caftle-a-Mare the largeft do not weigh an ounce. The matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum is not the produce of one eruption only ; for there...immediately above the town, and was the caufe of its deftru&ion. Thefe ftrata are either of lava or burnt matter, with veins of good foil between them.... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1774 - 210 σελίδες
...Caftle-a-Mare the largeft do not weigh an ounce. The matter which covers the ancient ''town of Herculaneum is not the produce' of one eruption only; for there...eruptions ' has taken its courfe over 'that which Iks immediately above the town, and was the caufe of its deftruction. Thefe ftrata are either of lava... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 510 σελίδες
...hundred years fince Herculaneum was fwallowed up ; but we are informed by unqueftionable authority, that the matter of fix eruptions has taken its courfe...immediately above the town, and was the caufe of its deftrucYion. Thefe ilrata are either of lava or burnt matter, itiith leir.s of good Jail tefwixt tktm*'... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 588 σελίδες
...informed by unquellionable authority, that " the matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum, is not the produce of one eruption only; for there...marks, that the matter of fix eruptions has taken it's courfe over that which lies immediately above the town, and was the caufe of it's de/huflion.... | |
| John Moore - 1787 - 532 σελίδες
...it. Sir William Hamilton, in his accurate and judicious obfervations on Mount Vefuvius, aflerts, that there are evident marks that the matter of fix eruptions has taken its courfe over this devoted town, fince the great explofion which involved it in the fame fate with Pompeia. Thefe... | |
| Richard Watson - 1788 - 500 σελίδες
...informed by unqueftionable authority, that " the matter which covers the antient town of Herculaneum, is not the produce of one eruption only ; for there...marks, that the matter of fix eruptions has taken it's courfe over that which lies immediately above the town, and was the caufe of it's deftruftion.... | |
| Richard Watson - 1788 - 494 σελίδες
...of one eruption only ; for there are evident marks, that the matter of fix eruptions has taken it's courfe over that which lies immediately above the town, and was the caufe of it's deftruction. Thefe ftrata are either of lava or burnt matter, 'with veins of good foil betwixt... | |
| John Moore - 1790 - 536 σελίδες
...it. Sir William Hamilton, in his accurate and judicious obfervations on Mount Vefuvius, aficrts, that there are evident marks that the matter of fix eruptions has taken its courfe 8 over over this devoted town, fince the great explofion which involved it in the fame fate with Pompeia.... | |
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