| Patrick Brydone - 1773 - 394 pages
...fhakeri and mattered by the mountain, that hardly any thing is to be found entire; Near to a vault, which is now thirty feet below ground, and has probably been a burial place, there is a draw-well, where there are feveral ftrata of lavas, with earth to a confiderable... | |
| 1774 - 690 pages
...laras, to prove the taft amiquity of the eruptions of jCtna j and thus he reafons : • Near to a vault, which is now thirty feet below ground, and has probably been a burial-place, there is a draw-well, where there are feveral llrata of lavas, with earth to a coniidi.iable ih'ckn^fs over the furface of... | |
| Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...the >aft antiquity of the eruptions of ./Etna ; and thus he reafons : • Near to a vault, which i« now thirty feet below ground, and has probably been a burial-place, there is a draw-well, where there arb feveral ftrata of lavas, with earth to a confiderable thicknefs over the furface of... | |
| Patrick Brydone - 1774 - 412 pages
...fhaken and fhattered by the mountain, that hardly any thing is to be found entire. Near to a vault, which is now thirty feet below ground, and has probably been a burial place, there is a draw-well, where there are feveral ftrata of lavas, with earth to a considerable... | |
| 1776 - 746 pages
...Signor Recupero endeavours, p. 140. to eftablifh the great antiquity of our earth. " Near to a vault, which is now thirty feet below ground, and has probably been a burial- place, there is a draw -well , where there are feveral ftrata of lavas, with earth to a confiderable... | |
| 1778 - 626 pages
...endeavoii{s,p. (40, to establish tin- great antiquity of our earth. " Near ta a vault, which is now jO feet below ground, and has probably been a burial-place, there is a draw-well, where thercare several strata of lavas, with earth to a considerable thickness over the surface of... | |
| 1791 - 634 pages
...endeavours, p. I4o,toeftabli(h the great antiquity of our ear(h. " Near to a vault, which is now 30 feet below ground, and has probably been a burial-place, there is, a draw-well, where there are feveral ftrata of lavas, with earth to a confiderable thicknefs over (he furface of... | |
| 1792 - 640 pages
...vegetative procefs is always fimilar, dates the age of the mountain accord»| to the various tirata of lava and foil that have been difcovered. " Near...below ground, and has probably been a burial-place, ihe;e is a draw-well, REV. JULY 1792. 2 where where there are feveral ftrata of lavas, with earth to... | |
| Thomas Gisborne - 1799 - 606 pages
...Travels through Sicily and Malta, writes thus concerning the neighbourhood of Etna. " Near to a vault, which is now thirty feet below ground, " and has probably been a burial-place, there is a draw* well; where there are feveral ftrata of lavas with earth " to a confiderable thicknefs over the... | |
| William Wirt - 1805 - 144 pages
...shaken and shattered by the mountain, that hardly any thing is to be found entire. " Near to a va-ilt, which is now thirty feet below ground, and has, probably been a burial place, there is a draw-well, where there are several strata of lavas, with earth to a considerable... | |
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