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still burning in certain places. These ashes, if 

 they may be called so, heaped sometimes in 

 sinking hollows, form very dangerous spots ; a 

 stick may be thrust into them with the greatest 

 ease ; in going over them, one may sink to one's 

 knees: I myself found, that, besides the great 

 heat which is concentrated in them, it was no 

 little trouble to get out of them. 



" The liveliness with which the fire shows it- 

 self, towards the east and the south of the hill, 

 where the trees split at 30 fathoms' distance, does 

 not permit much detailed observation, otherwise 

 than as relates, either to the fiery spectacle of a 

 considerable surface of earth, or to the aspect of 

 a confused and extraordinary subversion. One 

 cannot approach every spot one would wish. In 

 some, at the bottom of the burning part, the heat 

 is sufferable ; the neighbouring inhabitants roast 

 their chesnuts in it; even rabbits like to burrow 

 in it, and, although the season when I was there 

 was extremely hot, I have seen some of those 

 animals driven from places contiguous to the 

 burning soil. On approaching the centre of the 

 nountain, the superficial heat becomes stronger; 

 resides, this burning and moving earth, in some 

 >laces, will not allow you to remain any time ; 

 either the stones give way under the feet, and 

 ire buried in the ashes which they cover; or the 



