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Ch. XXIV.] 



ERUPTION IN ISC MIA, A.I). 1302. 



605 



pi 



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that none of the people were destroyed in the theatres 



and indeed, that there were 



very few of the inhabitants who 



from 



Yet 



and there was ample foundation for the tale in its most es- 

 sential particulars. 



It does not appear that in the year 79 any lava flowed from 

 Vesuvius ; the ejected substances, perhaps, consisted entirely 



Nuovo was thrown up in 1538. 



era 



Monte 

 The first era at which we 



/ins: of a stream of lava, is 

 have auiiujuLiu a*,w~~«M s 



the year 1036, which is the seventh eruption from the revi- 

 val of the fires of the volcano. A few years afterwards, in 

 1049, another eruption is mentioned, and another in 1138 

 (or 1139), after which a great pause ensued of 168 years. 

 During this long interval of repose, two minor vents opened 

 at distant points. First, it is on tradition that an 

 took place from the Solfatara in the year 1198, during the 

 eign of Frederick II., Emperor of Germany ; and although 

 circumstantial detail of the event has reached us from 

 those dark ages, we may receive the fact without hesitation * 

 Nothing more, however, can be attributed to this eruption, 

 as Mr.°Scrope observes, than the discharge of a light and 

 scoriform trachytic lava (that of Monte Olivano), of recent 

 aspect, resting upon the strata of loose tuff which covers the 



principal mass of trachyte, f 



Volcanic eruption in Ischia, 1302.— The other occurrence is 

 well authenticated— the eruption, in the year 1302, of a 



no 



During part of 1301, earthquakes had 



lava-stream from a 



Island of Ischia. _ _ 



succeeded one another with fearful rapidity ; and they ter- 

 minated at last with the discharge of a lava-stream from a 

 point named the Campo del Arso, not far from the town of 

 Ischia. This lava ran quite down to the sea— a distance of 

 about two miles : in colour it varies from iron grey to red- 

 dish black, and is remarkable for the glassy felspar which it 



* The earliest authority, says Mr. &c, No. i., new series, p. 127. July 



Forbes, given for this fact, appears to 

 be Capaccio, quoted in the Terra Tre- 

 mante of Bonito.— Edin. Journ. of Sei. 



1829. 



f Geol. Trans., second series, vol. ii 



p. 346. 



