[723] Tavola Metrica Chronologica, &c. Napoli, 1838. Mr. Smith, of Jordan Hill, writing in 1847, estimated the rate of subsidence, at that period, at one inch annually. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. iii. p. 237.
[724] Voy. dans la Campanie, tome ii. p. 162.
[725] Mr. Forbes, Physical Notices of the Bay of Naples. Ed. Journ. of Sci., No. II., new series, p. 280. October, 1829. When I visited Puzzuoli, and arrived at the above conclusions, I knew nothing of Mr. Forbes's observations, which I first saw on my return to England the year following.
[726] Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1847, vol. iii. p. 203.
[727] Nuove Ricerche sul Temp. di Serap.
[728] The Swedish measure scarcely differs from ours; the foot being divided into twelve inches, and being less than ours by three-eighths of an inch only.
[729] For a full account of the Celsian controversy, we may refer our readers to Von Hoff, Geschichte, &c. vol. i. p. 439.
[730] Piteo, Luleo, and Obo are spelt, in many English maps, Pitea, Lulea, Åbo; the a is not sounded in the Swedish diphthong ao or å.
[731] Sect. 393.
[732] Sect. 398.