James Smithson And His Bequest

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James Smithson And His Bequest
William Jones Rhees
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has ever- been seen enclosing drops of water; but that none of the materials of these strata contain water in any state.
a. The present saline substance was sent to me from Naples to Florence, where I was, in May 1794, with a re- quest to ascertain its nature. The general examination v^rhich I then made of it, shewed it to be principally what was at that time called vitriolated tartaVy and it was in con- sequence mentioned as such in an Italian publication soon after. But as this denomination,
...surprising at that period, was not supported by the relation of any experiments, or the citation of any authority, no attention was paid to it; and the existence of this species of salt, native in the earth, has not been admitted by mineralogists, no mention being made of it, I believe, in any mineralogical work published «ince.
b. I was informed by letter, that it had " flowed out liquid Digitized by VjOOQIC 54 WRITINGS OF JAMES SMITHSON.
from a small aperture in the cone of Vesuvius," and which I apprehend to have happened in 1792 or 1798, c.


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