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The next day all was quieted by a profufe lava that has 

 filled up the hollow way between the Hermit's * and Ve- 

 fuvjus, of at leaft an hundred feet in breadth. 



. The fecond night, however, was as turbulent at the 

 raountam, but not fo alarming at Naples as the firft, be- 

 caufe the mountain burft fooner, and on the other fide of 

 it, from whence a lava equally copious was delivered, and 

 after fewer throes. 



The third day the agitalion of the earth and air was 

 very mconhdcrable; but an immenfe quantity of cinders 

 and alhes failed the whole atmofphere f , fo as to take our 

 bright Sun, from us, and to leave us no more of him than 

 we have in London, when thoufands of lefs alarmino- vol- 

 canoes from good kitckens, render the air, in wlnte?, of- 

 ten impervious to any but his ftrongcft rays; and he ap- 

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The fourth day we had for three hours or more, one 

 continual thunder, without the terrible explofions however 

 of the firft and fecond nights; and I took great comfort to 

 myfelf on feeing the conftant courfe of cinders and afhes 

 thrown up. For, I looked upon it as the effea, if I may ufe 

 the figure, of a bellows blown by all the winds, that would 

 foon deftroy or feparate the combuftiblc enemy: Accord- 

 ingly thefeaflies wcrctheonly inconvenience that remained. 



But on Sunday, the fevcnth day, the quantity of afhes 

 that filled the air was fo great, that having rode out to- 

 take a nearer view of the volcano, I was obliged to gallop 

 home with my eyes fliut, as I could no longer open them 

 from the pain thefe alhes put me to §. 



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* In the folimrr place, aI>out halfway up Moiuit Vefuvius. is an hcrmUut^c, where thofc 

 Avhoie cunofity leads them to examine this wonderA,Iph;rn<nucnui, gcncruliy oil, aiul are nra- 

 vidcd with relrLihniciit by the heniut. j ^* ait juu- 



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 etumi, mgT.cpic ^ambiiUi & fraai ignelapKlcs: Jam vudum fubitum, ruiiKuiue mot.tiJ'litLoi' 



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 .am. cfuint, lundus tamcn, qualiscffe, aim deficit, folet. Occurna>a,m. trepfd nt lu^ "dh^ 

 :uli. muta a, omma Mtoque cinere. tanquam nive, obdudhv." />/^«/i FMoL xx. //I y 



.§ Paullum re nxu, quod non d!c. nob.s, fyd vcntantis i^nls indic/um vidcbatm & l.-ns 



geutcs cxcutiebamu., obcrti aUo^iui, atciue ctiam ol>m) pondcrc ckmu,." rimi J^j^i/hl. xx k vu 



