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Review Of New Publications.
' As this is an exhibition humanity can find little to delight in , I was astonished to see , in casting my eyes around , so many female spectators attending this bloody spectacle , which seems , indeed , scarcely compatible with the police of a civilized state . ' We shall here close our review of these volumes ; and we presume that the passages we have extracted will place the work in as favourable a light , as it appears to us to merit . Truth and candour are the chief requisites of a
traveller , and in neither of these is Mr . Owen defective . He seems , throughout , to have taken great pains to be well informed ; and , of course , he is not guilty of either error or misrepresentation . Travels through 'various Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples in 1789 . By Charles Ulysses , of Sail . Marschlins . Translated from the German by Anthony Aufrere , Esq . Illustrated ivith engravings . Pages 527 . % vo . Price is . Ca-. dell and Davies . London , 1795 .
[ CONELUDKD FROM OUR LAST . ] WE recommend the following observations on the different kinds of lava to the serious consideration of" those who endeavour to deduce , from such phenomena , arguments against the accuracy of the Mosaic Chronology . ' Between the Torre del Greco and the Torre dell' Annunziata-I crossed a stream of lava , that broke out in 176 9 , at the foot of Vesuvius , not far from the roadand into the
, ran sea across a beautiful and fertile country , which it converted into a desert and a chaos . The place of its origin is distinguished by three moderate hills , of" a conic form , and hollow in tlie centre . The Comparison of this waste with the neighbouring elysium , exposed to a similar fate , awakens the most melancholy thoughts ; but when , on the other hand , we consider that even this desolation bears within it the seeds of" a still more fruitful districtthat a paradise be formed therefromsuperior to the
; may , surrounding plains ; that this lava is already become earth ; and that plants are cherished in some parts of its unfriendly lap ; we are in some measure comforted by the universal law of nature , that even destruction contains the germ of life . Not less striking is the circumstance of this lava being so soon capable of vegetation , since some in Sicily discovers no symptoms of decom - position , though it has been exposed to a much warmer sun , and all the changes of the atmosphere , during several centuries . This difference is chiefl
y to be ascribed to their interior composition ; the lava of Mount Etna containing feldtspath and pebbles , whilst that of Vesuvius consists of schorl , granite , and argillaceous earth . They who judge of the age of lava b y its progress in decomposition , must be always liable to error , unless they , at the same time , take into the account its various component parts . They , also , have been greatly wide of the truth , who have judged of the periods in which the lava has flowedbthe thickness of the layers of earth between the streams
, y of lava that lie one above another ' : for , even allowing that the date of one or two might be given , as a foundation , upon which to proceed , one sort of lava will , in ten years , have a stratum of earth a foot deep upon it , and another sort have scarcely the same quantity in two hundred years . ' We have heard much of the sagacity of various animals , particularly of elephants : —the following account of" a buffalo is very remarkable .
' The following proof of the great sagacity of the buffalo , attested b y the whole province , merits our utmost credit and attention . The road to the t . wo Calabrias is traversed , between Persano and Poestum , by the river Sele
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
' As this is an exhibition humanity can find little to delight in , I was astonished to see , in casting my eyes around , so many female spectators attending this bloody spectacle , which seems , indeed , scarcely compatible with the police of a civilized state . ' We shall here close our review of these volumes ; and we presume that the passages we have extracted will place the work in as favourable a light , as it appears to us to merit . Truth and candour are the chief requisites of a
traveller , and in neither of these is Mr . Owen defective . He seems , throughout , to have taken great pains to be well informed ; and , of course , he is not guilty of either error or misrepresentation . Travels through 'various Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples in 1789 . By Charles Ulysses , of Sail . Marschlins . Translated from the German by Anthony Aufrere , Esq . Illustrated ivith engravings . Pages 527 . % vo . Price is . Ca-. dell and Davies . London , 1795 .
[ CONELUDKD FROM OUR LAST . ] WE recommend the following observations on the different kinds of lava to the serious consideration of" those who endeavour to deduce , from such phenomena , arguments against the accuracy of the Mosaic Chronology . ' Between the Torre del Greco and the Torre dell' Annunziata-I crossed a stream of lava , that broke out in 176 9 , at the foot of Vesuvius , not far from the roadand into the
, ran sea across a beautiful and fertile country , which it converted into a desert and a chaos . The place of its origin is distinguished by three moderate hills , of" a conic form , and hollow in tlie centre . The Comparison of this waste with the neighbouring elysium , exposed to a similar fate , awakens the most melancholy thoughts ; but when , on the other hand , we consider that even this desolation bears within it the seeds of" a still more fruitful districtthat a paradise be formed therefromsuperior to the
; may , surrounding plains ; that this lava is already become earth ; and that plants are cherished in some parts of its unfriendly lap ; we are in some measure comforted by the universal law of nature , that even destruction contains the germ of life . Not less striking is the circumstance of this lava being so soon capable of vegetation , since some in Sicily discovers no symptoms of decom - position , though it has been exposed to a much warmer sun , and all the changes of the atmosphere , during several centuries . This difference is chiefl
y to be ascribed to their interior composition ; the lava of Mount Etna containing feldtspath and pebbles , whilst that of Vesuvius consists of schorl , granite , and argillaceous earth . They who judge of the age of lava b y its progress in decomposition , must be always liable to error , unless they , at the same time , take into the account its various component parts . They , also , have been greatly wide of the truth , who have judged of the periods in which the lava has flowedbthe thickness of the layers of earth between the streams
, y of lava that lie one above another ' : for , even allowing that the date of one or two might be given , as a foundation , upon which to proceed , one sort of lava will , in ten years , have a stratum of earth a foot deep upon it , and another sort have scarcely the same quantity in two hundred years . ' We have heard much of the sagacity of various animals , particularly of elephants : —the following account of" a buffalo is very remarkable .
' The following proof of the great sagacity of the buffalo , attested b y the whole province , merits our utmost credit and attention . The road to the t . wo Calabrias is traversed , between Persano and Poestum , by the river Sele