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Ch. XXIV.] 



FORMATION OF MONTE NUOVO. 



607 



we have received authentic accounts from contemporary 



■writers. 

 The height of this mountain, called ever since Monte 



tfuovo, has been determined, by the Italian mineralogist 



pini, to be 440 English feet above the level of the bay ; its 



base' is about 8,000 feet, or more than a mile and a half 



in 



cumfere 



According to Pini, the depth of the 



Fie. 62. 



Monte Nuovo, formed in the Bay of Baise, Sept. 29th, 1538. 



2. Brim of crater of ditto 



1 . Cone of Monte Nuovo. 



3. Thermal spring, called Baths of Nero, or Stufe di Tritoli. 



summit 



so 



that its bottom is only nineteen feet above the level of the 

 sea. The cone is declared, by the best authorities, to stand 

 partly on the site of the Lucrine Lake (4, fig. 63), which 



more 



and was almost entirely filled during the explosion of 1538. 



om 



sea by an elevated beach, raised artificially. 



William Hamilton 



given us two original letters 

 describing this eruption. The first, by Falconi, dated 1538, 

 contains the following passages.* ' It is now two years since 





Campi Phlegrsei, p. 70. 



