 | Sir William Hamilton - East Timor News Agency - 1773 - 204 pages
...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 are evident marks that the matter of fix eruptions has taken its courfe over that which lies immediately above the town, and was the caufe... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1777 - 588 pages
...informed by unquellionable 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 fix eruptions has taken it's courfe over that which lies immediately above the town, and was the caufe... | |
 | Richard Watson - Sermons, English - 1788 - 500 pages
...informed by unqueftionable authority, that " the matter which covers the antient town of Herculaneum, is not the produce 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... | |
 | Richard Watson (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1791 - 266 pages
...informed by unqueftionable authority, that " the matter which covers the ancient town of HercuJaneum is not the produce of one eruption only ; for there are evident marks, that the matter of fix eruptions has taken its courfe over that which lies immediately above the town, and was the caufe... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...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 fix eruptions has' tjken its courfe over that which lieĢ immediately above the town, and was the caufe... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...informed by unquestionable authority, that ' the matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum, is not the produce of one eruption only; for there...town, and was the cause of its destruction. These straw are either of lava or burnt matter, with veins of good soil betwixt them.' — I will not add... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...informed by unquestionable authority, that the matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum is not the produce of one eruption only ; for there...above the town, and was the cause of its destruction. The strata are either of lava or burnt matter, with veins of good soil between them '. —I will not... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...Sir Williani Hamilton, in his accurate and judicious observations on Mount Vesuvius, asserts, that there are evident marks that the matter of six eruptions has taken its course over this devoted town, since the great explosion which involved it in the same fate with Pompeii. These... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...it. Sir William Hamilton, in his accurate and judicious observations on Mount Vesuvius, asserts, that there are evident marks that the matter of six eruptions has taken its course over this devoted town, since the great explosion which involved it in the same fate with* Pompeii. These... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1825 - 178 pages
...William Hamilton (Phil. Trans- vol. Ixi), " that the matter which covers the ancient town of Herculaneum is not the produce of one eruption only ; for there...over that which lies immediately above the town, and which was the cause of its destruction. These strata are either of lava or burnt matter, with veins... | |
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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... 
