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Interspersed are remarks on the manners and character of the inhabitants. Lettres sur la Sicile et sur Malta, de M. le Comte de Borch, 1777. Turin, 1782. 2 vols. 8vo. The object of the author is to supply the omissions and correct the mistakes of Brydon. Voyage aux Isles Lipari, 1781. Par D. Dolomieu.
Departure of the squadron Arrival at Malta Dolomieu General Barguay d'Hilliers Attack on the western part of the island Caffarelli's remark Deliverance of the Turkish prisoners Nelson's pursuit of the French fleet Conversations on board How Bonaparte passed his, time Questions to the Captains Propositions discussed Morning music Proclamation Admiral Brueys The English fleet avoided Dangerous landing Bonaparte and his fortune Alexandria taken Kleber wounded Bonaparte's entrance into Alexandria.
Hence we may conclude what must be the heat in this solfatara at the depth of thirty or forty fathoms. The sulphur reduced into vapour is condensed into fine crystals, which however are not equal in size to those M. Dolomieu brought from Sicily. They are semi-diaphanous octahedrons, very brilliant on the surface, and of a conchoidal fracture.
It is not the explanation here given by the Chevalier de Dolomieu, of the manner in which this great mass of land was formed in the sea, that is concerned with the subject at present under our examination, but certain facts set forth in the Memoir, and a certain conclusion which is there endeavoured to be drawn from those interesting facts . This will be understood by considering; first, it is on all hands acknowledged, that the stratified matter of the globe was successively deposited in the bottom of the sea; secondly, it is also agreed, that this great mass of Sicily, formed originally under the sea, was afterwards placed in the atmosphere, whether by the retreat of the sea or by the elevation of the land; and now, lastly, we are of one mind with respect to the present shape of things, as having been produced by the wasting away of great part of that mass which had been once continued all over the island, as high at least as the tops of the mountains, i.e. about a mile above the level of the sea; we only differ in the time and agents which have been employed in this Operation.
The reader will see, in the place quoted, or in the avant-propos to his Mémoire sur les Iles Ponces, the fact to be this; That the Chevalier Dolomieu finds those bodies which we either cannot melt in our fires, or which we cannot melt without changing them by calcination and vitrification, he finds, I say, these substances had actually been melted with his lavas; he also finds those substances, which are necessarily dissipated in our fires, to have been retained in those melted mineral substances.
The Chevalier de Dolomieu supposes these rocks to have been erupted lavas, originally containing cavities; and that these cavities in the solid rock had been afterwards filled and crystallised, by means of infiltration, with the different substances which are found variously concreted and crystallised within the solid rocks.
Departure of the squadron Arrival at Malta Dolomieu General Barguay d'Hilliers Attack on the western part of the island Caffarelli's remark Deliverance of the Turkish prisoners Nelson's pursuit of the French fleet Conversations on board How Bonaparte passed his, time Questions to the Captains Propositions discussed Morning music Proclamation Admiral Brueys The English fleet avoided Dangerous landing Bonaparte and his fortune Alexandria taken Kleber wounded Bonaparte's entrance into Alexandria.
But in the north end of the island of Zanone, the Chevalier de Dolomieu finds a small part of a similar limestone in vertical strata, closely united with the volcanic materials of the islands now under consideration.
Paris, 1788, 8vo.. The character of Dolomieu sufficiently points out the nature and value of this work. A Supplement was published the same year, under the title of Mémoire sur les Isles Ponces. Par Dolomieu. Paris. 8vo. Voyage Historique Littéraire et Pittoresque dans les Isles et Possessions ci-devant Venétiennes du Levant. Par A. Grasset-Saint-Sauveur, jun. Paris, 1800. 3 vols. 8vo.
It remains only to confirm this reasoning, upon our principles, by bringing actual observation to its support; and this we shall do from two of the best authorities. The Chevalier de Dolomieu, in describing the volcanic productions of Etna, mentions a lava which had flowed from that mountain, and which may be considered as a granite.
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