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together ; during which it- ^as very obfervable, that all 
tli^^JiTolleys, of^^moak, Flame, and ^qrning Scones, 
c|Lii^,only oji^cipr the Hole to our LeS, while the li- 
quid- Stuff in the other Mouth wrought and overflow’d 
as hath been already defcribed. June .5, After a 
horrid Noile, the Mountain was. at t^aple^ to fp^w 
a little out of Crater, jThe fame condnu’d the^ 
^th. The 7th, niching vyas obierv’d till within two 
Hours of Night,, when it began a hideous bellowing, 
which continued all ,tl)ac N)gh;t; gfd the ne^^, Day till; 
Noon, caufing the Windows, aq 4 ^^ , tho; 
very Boufes m fJapl^Xo (hake ; From that time it fpewldi 
vaft Quantities of molten Stuff to the ISouth, which^ 
flream’d down the fide of the Mountain, like a great 
Pot boyliijg over. This Evening I return’d from., a 
Voyage thro* ApulU. iix\d wasjfurptifed, pafling by the 
North fide of the Mountain, 'to fee a, great Quantity; 
of ruddy Smoak lie along a huge Tcadt of Sky over, 
the River of molten Stuff which was, it delf out of, 
fight. The 9th, Vefuv'iuj raged lefs vjplendy ; that 
Night we faw from Napla a Column of fire, (hoot, 
between whiles out of its Summit. Thq loth, wl^n we, 
thought all wou’d have been over, the Mountain grevy! 
very outragious again, roaring and groaning mofl dreadr^ 
fully. You cannot form a jufler Idea qf this Noifc: in 
the mofl violent Fits of it, than by imagining a mix’d 
Sound made up of the raging of a Tempeft, the Mur- 
mur of a troubled Sea, and the Roaring of Thunder 
and Artillery, confufed all together. It was very ter- 
rible as we heard it in the further End of Naples y at 
the Diflance of above twelve Miles. This moved my 
Curiofity to approach the Mountain. Three or four 
of us got into a Boat, and were fet afhoar at Torre del 
Gw, a Town fi,cuate at the Foo; of Fejuvius to .the 
South- 
