oCi ' Rartliquake. 



them, aiid the perfection of the design : in a word, a great 

 number of militarv instruments and utensils, used for sacred 

 as well as domestic purposes. Exact descriptions of these 

 article*, as well as of the paintings found in these tombs, 

 are to be publish.ed. 



Government, no less attentive to the p'rescrvation of the 

 objects of anliquily which exist in the environs of Puz;';oIi, 

 'has charged M. Nicolassi to clear away the ruins which 

 encumber the ten)ple of Jupiter Serapis. The labour has 

 been alreadv begun ; and this antient temple will soon be 

 entirely discovered, and freed from the stagnant water 

 Ibrmed around it, and which occasioned the greatest incon- 

 venience in regard to the salubrity of the air hi that cotmtry. 



EARTHQiUAKE; 



Messrs. WombwelT, Gautier, and Co., a highty respectable 

 mercantile firm in the city, have favoured us with the 

 follow ing- particular account of the earthquake that took 

 place in the kingdom of Naples, the 26th of July> and 

 the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on the 12th of August, 

 as transmitted to ihem by Mr. Falconnet, a merchant of 

 veracity, and much respected at Naples : 



*' Naples, Avgiist 13.— ^The following particulars of the 

 dreadful earthquake, on the 26th July, as received by go- 

 vernment, down to the 29th July, are the most accurate that 

 have yet appeared. I procured a copy to be sent to youi 

 this post for vour information, that of your friends, and 

 cortespon dents. Although 1 expressed to you by mv former 

 letter my regret that no eruption of Mount Vesuvius took 

 place, and that, on the contrary, the little coluinns of fire 

 that arose now and then were less since the earth(|uake, 

 jukI how desirable it was that a vent should be given by an 

 eruption to the inilanunable matter that seemed to exist in 

 the bowels of the earth, I did not expect to have this day to 

 announce to you, that my wishes were accomplished last 

 night, by an abundant eruption of lava from Mount Vesu- 

 vius ; which, though we did not feel any fresh shock of earth- 

 quake since July 26, vet now relieves us, in my humble 

 opinion, from any further apprehension of new shocks. 



" In the course of 'yesterday, till seven o'clock in the 

 evening, Vesuvius was very quiet, emitting but little smoke ; 

 it then increased, with flames at intervals : past nine o'clock, 

 they became frequent, and I observed, when they fell, that 

 the mouth of Vesuvius appeared still as a furnace. I was 

 then on the terrace of my country house, at St. Jcriv, west 

 Irom \'esuviu^, and very near it. Mrs. FalconTioi liad just 



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