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Review Of New Publications.
the president , in particular , comes in for a considerable share of satirical description . ' Sir G—' s head a garland did entwine , A garland , form'd of flowers of car-damine ! And intermix'd were many leaves of lead , And dangling down was many a poppy head , Which poppy-heads , as laughing Fancy tells ,
Of all things most resembled Folly ' s bells . ' ¦ The notes , which are amply scattered at the bottom of the pages , are certainly not the least valuable part of the work . They shew the author to be a scholar and a man of science . We are led to expect a continuation of the poem as soon as the long depending cause to which it has a reference shall be ended . Remarks concerning Stones said to have fallen from the Clouds , both in these Days , and in
ancient Times . B y Edward King , Esq . F . R . S . and F . S . A . 4 ( 0 . Pages 34 . Price 2 S . G . Nicol . THE most memorable instance of phxnomena similar to those mentioned in the title of this tract , is that which happened in Tuscany , on the 16 th of June , 1794 , when , according- to the evidence of several eye-witnesses , a great ' number of heated stones of various dimensions fell from a seeming thundercloud , one of wheh was found to weigh about five pounds and a half . They were scattered on a space between three and four miles—Mr . King quotes many other instances of extraordinary events of the same nature , both in
ancient and modern times—some from scripture , several from Herodian , Plutarch , Pliny , and Livy ; and others that took place in recent times in France , Spain , Germany , Hungary , & c . among which is particularly described the mass that fell on the 13 th of December last , at Wood Cottage , in Yorkshire , concerning which the public curiosity has been amply gratified by a late exhibition of the stone itself in town . Nor are any instances omitted of extraordinary showers of ashes , and of hailstones of uncommon dimensions , of
one of which that fell at Menabilly , in Cornwall , and wei ghed about one ounce , an engraving is prefixed to the tract . We must observe , that this is an ample collection of perhaps all the facts of this sort that are to be met with upon record . Prof . Soldani , from whom the information of the Tuscan stone has been derived , is of opinion that these stones are generated in the air by a combination of mineral substances , which had risen somewhere or other as
exhalations from the earth , but not , bethinks , from Mount Vesuvius . Mr . K . assents to this hypothesis : but so far from acquiescing in the latter opinion , as to the place whence these materials arose , he assigns various reasons for maintaining that the great eruptions of Mount Vesuvius , which had taken place the day before this fall of stones , was the real source from which they derived their origin . He applies the same arguments in favour of his conjecture , that the Wood Cottage stone might be ultimately traced to an eruption of Mount Hecla . The publication is altogether curious , not only from , the facts it recites , but from the speculations it contains .
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Review Of New Publications.
the president , in particular , comes in for a considerable share of satirical description . ' Sir G—' s head a garland did entwine , A garland , form'd of flowers of car-damine ! And intermix'd were many leaves of lead , And dangling down was many a poppy head , Which poppy-heads , as laughing Fancy tells ,
Of all things most resembled Folly ' s bells . ' ¦ The notes , which are amply scattered at the bottom of the pages , are certainly not the least valuable part of the work . They shew the author to be a scholar and a man of science . We are led to expect a continuation of the poem as soon as the long depending cause to which it has a reference shall be ended . Remarks concerning Stones said to have fallen from the Clouds , both in these Days , and in
ancient Times . B y Edward King , Esq . F . R . S . and F . S . A . 4 ( 0 . Pages 34 . Price 2 S . G . Nicol . THE most memorable instance of phxnomena similar to those mentioned in the title of this tract , is that which happened in Tuscany , on the 16 th of June , 1794 , when , according- to the evidence of several eye-witnesses , a great ' number of heated stones of various dimensions fell from a seeming thundercloud , one of wheh was found to weigh about five pounds and a half . They were scattered on a space between three and four miles—Mr . King quotes many other instances of extraordinary events of the same nature , both in
ancient and modern times—some from scripture , several from Herodian , Plutarch , Pliny , and Livy ; and others that took place in recent times in France , Spain , Germany , Hungary , & c . among which is particularly described the mass that fell on the 13 th of December last , at Wood Cottage , in Yorkshire , concerning which the public curiosity has been amply gratified by a late exhibition of the stone itself in town . Nor are any instances omitted of extraordinary showers of ashes , and of hailstones of uncommon dimensions , of
one of which that fell at Menabilly , in Cornwall , and wei ghed about one ounce , an engraving is prefixed to the tract . We must observe , that this is an ample collection of perhaps all the facts of this sort that are to be met with upon record . Prof . Soldani , from whom the information of the Tuscan stone has been derived , is of opinion that these stones are generated in the air by a combination of mineral substances , which had risen somewhere or other as
exhalations from the earth , but not , bethinks , from Mount Vesuvius . Mr . K . assents to this hypothesis : but so far from acquiescing in the latter opinion , as to the place whence these materials arose , he assigns various reasons for maintaining that the great eruptions of Mount Vesuvius , which had taken place the day before this fall of stones , was the real source from which they derived their origin . He applies the same arguments in favour of his conjecture , that the Wood Cottage stone might be ultimately traced to an eruption of Mount Hecla . The publication is altogether curious , not only from , the facts it recites , but from the speculations it contains .