Record

RefNoCLP/4ii/11
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Description of the burning vulcano [volcano] in County Kerry [Ireland]' by unknown author
Date1733
DescriptionA section of The Dublin Evening-Post dated Saturday March the 24th, to Tuesday March the 27th 1733. An unnamed author shares a description of the cliffs on the coast of County Kerry, stating that 'near two years ago a piece of one of these high cliffs fell off; whereupon there broke out a smoak [smoke] attended with a strong sulphureous smell'.

Subject: Geology

Read to the Royal Society on 5 April 1733
LanguageEnglish
Extent4p
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
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