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very lately as fince the publication of his Travels, 

 changed its name to 'T'orre di Greco : And indeed 

 as moft of the Inhabitants w^ere buried in its 

 ruins, I do not fee how this fubterraneous Town 

 can be either Pompeia or Herciilana^ fince ac- 

 cording to Mr. Shehock's laft obfervation, there 

 has been but one fingle dead Body dug up in it : 

 Nay, give me leave to take notice yet farther^ 

 That as all the adjacent People of the Country 

 reforted to thefe Spedacles, Herculana mult then 

 be crowded in a moft extraordinary manner, 



1 1 . That curious and learned Traveller does 

 alfo remark. That in the Night, between the 

 nineteenth and twentieth oi September in the Year 

 of our Lord 1538, the Earth there was brought 

 to bed of a Mountain, which has ever fmce been 

 called Monte Niiovo, or Di Cinere. The Birth 

 was attended with terrible circumftances : for the 

 Earth quaked ; the Sea recoiled ; the Lucrin 

 Lake was almoft filled up ; great numbers of Men 

 and Beafts periflied; and there was a general and 

 dreadful conflernation through all the neighbour- 

 ing Country. 



12. In another place, fpeaking of the Via Fla- 

 minia^ he fays : In fome places, and particularly 

 towards Cajlel Niwvo, fifteen miles from Rome^ 

 this ancient Pavement may be ftill obferved, 

 which fometimes mounts on Afcents that are 

 now inacceffible, in other places it loofes itfelf in 



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