FUMAVOLS. 



" In order to furnish myself with an exact and 

 complete picture of all the parts of this pheno- 

 menon, which had drawn me thither, the cir- 

 cumstances I have just related were the only 

 ones, to which I confined my first inspection. For 

 that purpose, I remained for some time at the 

 place where I arrived coming from Albin; it 

 was directly on the crest of the mountain, above 

 its inflamed part, bordering even on the brink of 

 the soil where its degradation is at present mark- 

 ed. What there most astonished me was, three 

 kinds of luminous globes (I describe them as Fire. 

 they appeared to me), at different distances from 

 one another, in the lower part of the mountain, 

 nearly of the same size as the moon appears 

 when at the full, of a bright red, or such as the 

 fire in a forge appears, at the farther end of a 

 smithy when seen from a clear and distant place. 



" I did not know what it was; I nevertheless 

 attentively observed these brilliant points, which 

 I was desired to consider. Do you see the fire? 

 said they. The stones, or any thing found at 

 hand, which my guide, and those who were with 

 us at the time, amused themselves with throwing 

 towards the place where I perceived these bodies 

 of light, explained to me, what I had neither 

 been able to judge of nor define: they were so 

 many apertures, which served as chimneys to the 



