Volume 2

Travels in the two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines / Translated from the original Italian. Of the Abbé Lazzaro Spallanzani.

  • Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1729-1799.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Travels in the two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines / Translated from the original Italian. Of the Abbé Lazzaro Spallanzani. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~ cano— Remains of an ancient crater at the fummit of Stromboli Appearance of the ejettions feen from above—Their perpendi- n cular beight—Conclufive proofs that the volcano of Stromboli is not intermittent, as fome travellers have afferted—The cavity | of the crater of this volcano probably not very, deep—Streams of fmoke which iffue . from three feveral parts of the volcano— The author fucceeds in an attempt to ap= proach nearer to the crater—Phenomena ~ which he obferved in confequence of this i nearer approach-——Form and firudture of | the crater—Liquid lava within it—Qua- lities of that lava—T he eruptions of Strom- boli little, or not at all, intermittent—Ob- fervations made by night within the crater itfelf—An unexpetled and terrible pheno- menon——Its explanation. T HE ifland of Stromboli is diftant from Sicily fifty miles, and is the firft of the ‘Folian ifles to the north-eaft. It was called “Srpoyluan by the ancient Greeks, from its round figure, and was celebrated for its ex- B4 traordinary