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CHANGES this iile, and we fliw it cveiy now and then blazing up with great 

 GLOBE, violence. In the morning we were a few miles diftant from th^- 



ille, and iiiw plainly a volcano on its South-Eaft fide, at the end of^ 

 a low range of hill's, not elevated more than.. 1 20 or 1.50 yards above 

 the fji-face of the fea I beyond which there appeared another ridge,, 

 at leafh as hioli again.. It feemed not above four miles diftant from- 



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the fea, and looked like a truncated cone, quite barren, of areddiflr 



rey, and had the appearance of being formed by aflies,- pumice 

 ilones, and lava. Every four or five minutes we perceived a ftrait 

 column of finoke, of a reddifh grey cafl, rifing with great velocity 

 and violence ^ and foon after we heard a rumxbling noife in the vol- 

 cano like that of thunder. After the fmoke, or rather mafs of ig- 

 nited aihes, had rifen to a coniiderable height, the refinance of th^ 

 air, and its own gravitation, brought it down : it varied from the 

 columnar fliape, and branched out«into feparate maiTes, affuming a 

 furface and, out-line, not unlike a large cauliflower *. Sometimes 



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thefe aflies appeared, white, fometimes they had a dirty grey, and 



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fometimes a very red cafl, which happened, as I fuppofe, when th 



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* Nubcs (incertum prociil intuentibns ex quo monte : Vefuvium fuifle pofl-ea cognitum 

 eft) orlebatur, cujus fimilltudinein & fonnam non alia magis arbor quam pinus exprelTent. 

 Nam lono-iffimo velut trunco data in altum, quibufdam ramis difFundebatur. Credo quia 

 recent! fpiritu evefta, deinde fenefcente eo deftituta, aut etiam pouderefuo vifta, in latitu- 

 dinem vancfcebat ; Candida interdam. intcrdum fordida, prout terram cineremve fjiiftulerar, 



Plin, E0. UL vi. Ep. XV. 



