ITALY. L E T T E R XI. 127 



Monte nuovo is a hill, which, in the year 1538, 

 during S. Michelmafs-day, was raifed from a 

 flat ground to an elevation .of four hundred fa- 

 thom, and a periphery of three thoufand paces. 

 During that day the lea retired for fome time j the 

 country fix miles around was burnt and laid wafte ; 

 the city I'ripergola was deftroyed, and the Lago 

 Lucrino filled up with ilones and allies. Lettres 

 de Mad. Du Eoccagefur V Italic , p. 235. and Deli- 

 ces de I'ltalie, torn. iii. a Leide, 1706, p. 576*. 



Monte Gaurc. or Barbaro^ Monti de Camaldoli, 

 Sant Elmo, Pizzo falcone ojla I'antica Echia y Capo 

 di Cbino ; and, perhaps, lo Scoglio di Reuigliano^ 

 have had likely the fame origin f . 



The ifland Ifchia is entirely volcanic. Such is 

 too Ni/zta, whofe fmall circular harbour, called 

 Porto Pavone, has likely been a volcanic funnel. 



By fo many, and perhaps a great many more 

 volcanic funnels, have been, at different times, vo- 

 mited over a pre-exiftent ground fiery lava, afhes, 

 pumice-ftones, and other eruptions. The lava 

 did run in torrents ; but the afhes were fpread in 

 fo large quantities into the air, that day-light 

 often has been darkened,, and large tracts of coun- 



* Better evidence, a contemporaneous writer, the above- 

 mentioned Simon Porta. 



f As has been proved and conjectured by Camilla Peregrlni 

 in Campania fellce in Gr&vii Thef. Antlq^. Italicar, torn. ix. 

 p. ii. p. 230. 



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