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subsided in the wells. Ashes wet wiih salt water were 

 thrown out: the ashes were very thick at Taranto, 250 

 miles off : a stone ten feet in diameter was thrown to an 

 imniense height, and eighteen hours afterwards, a shower 

 of stones fell at Sienna, 250 miles off. The electricity of the 

 atmosphere was positive ; there was violent lightning, with 

 the appearance of balls of fire bursting. A stream of lava 

 1300 feet wide and 24 deep destroyed Torre del Greco, and 

 covered 3000 acres of vineyards. Twenty seven ounces of 

 ashes were deposited on a fig branch which weighed only 

 three ; the ashes appeared to be phosphoric. A mofete, or 

 carbonic acid gas, was emitted by the earth, and destroyed 

 vineyards ; but was in one instance successfully drained off. 

 Much sal ammoniac was sublimed. Notwithstanding these 

 devastations, the inhabitants of Torre del Greco, 1 8000 in 

 number, unanimonsly refused the offer of another situation 

 for rebuilding their town. 



Hamilton and others on the eruption of 1 794. 

 Gilb. V. 40S. VI. 21. 



Ferbershriek aus Walschland. 8. Prag. 1773. 



liaspe Beschreibung der Niederhessischen al- 

 ien vulkanen. 8. Cassel, 1774. 



Mairan on the central fire. A. P. 1765. H. 13. 



Catani della Vesuviana eruzzione di 1767. 

 Catana, 1768. 



Bartaloni on volcanos. Ac. Sienn. V. 301. 



A volcano in Ferro broke out in 1777. 

 Threw out a quantity of red water, which discoloured the 



lea for several leagues. 



Faujas de St. Fond sur les volcans. f. Par. 



1778. R. I. 

 Faujas de St. Fond Mineralogie des volcans. 



8. Par. 1784. R. I. 

 t-Bertholon on a paravolcan. Roz. XIV. 111. 



A conductor. 



Mourgue de Montredon on hailstones sup- 

 posed to be volcanic. A. P. 1781. 754. _ 



Gioeni on ashowerof ashes. Ph. tr. 1782. 1. 



Gioeni Saggio di litologia Vesuviana. 8. 

 Napl. 1790. R.S. 



Ducarlaon volcanic inundations. Roz. XX. 

 113. 



Volta on terrestrial fires, and on the Pietra 

 mala near Florence. See. Ital. II. 662, QOO. 



Dolomieu Voyage aux isles de Lipari. Germ. 



S. Leipz. 1783. 

 Dolomieu on the antiquity of lava. Goth. 



Mag. III. i. 175. 

 Borch Briefe liber Sicilien. fiO. 



On the antiquity of lava. 



Dcluc's letters on the history of man. II. 

 ColUni on volcanos. Germ. 4. Dresden, 1783. 

 Knoll iiber die feueispeyenden barge. 8. Erf. 



1784. 

 Anderson's account of Morne Garou, in St. 



Vincent. Ph. tr. 1785. I6. Fig. 



Probably a recent volcano. 



Williams on a remarkable darkness. Am. 



Ac. I. 234. 

 Jones and Alexander on a mountain sup- 

 posed volcanic. Am. Ac. I. 312, 3)6. 

 Beroldingen Uber die vulkane. 8. Manh. 



1791. 

 Arduino on an ancient volcano. Soc. Ital. 



VI. 102. 

 On the origin of basaltes. Authors quoted by 



Lichtenberg in Erxl. §. 787. 

 Stanley on the hot springs in Iceland. Ed. 



tr. III. 127. 

 Three views of the Geyser. R. S. 

 Cassan and RoUo on a volcano in St. Lucia. 



Ph. M. III. 1.256. 

 Holm on the eruption in Iceland, 1783. Ph. 



M. III. 113. See Earthquakes. 

 Patrin on volcanos. Gilb. V. I9I. 

 *On the explosion of a blast furnace at 



Colncbrook Dale. Ph. M. XI. 92. 

 A curious illusliation of volcanic eruptions. 



Fortis on a shower of mud at Udina. Nich. 

 8. V. 101. Ph.M. XVI. 374. 



Probably from dust which had been carried up. 



Humboldt on mountains and volcanos. 

 Nich. VI. 242. See Earthquakes. " 



A considerable eruption of Vesuvius happened in 1 104 : a 

 sUU greater in I SOS. 



