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cooler. As this Stop was made at the Church, Part 
of the Lava took a Turn into the great large Road 
lo SalernOt to a great Height 5 which Part is choaked 
up for ever, the Expence being immenfe to remove 
it. N. B. Giulio Cefare Repitio-, one of the Au- 
thors who defcribes the Eruption in 1631. fays, one 
of themaffy metallic Bodies was in his Time weighed, 
and the Weight amounted to Five hundred CantaraSy 
a Cantara being nearly T wo hundred W eight. They 
have fince made the Road paffable, by laying Earth upon 
the Lava, and fo have added to the Hills of their 
Country. There are fome who pretend to fay, that 
the Matter difcharged this time in the different Cur- 
rents or Lava’s round about, would make a Moun- 
tain as big as their Sire. The Carmelites here foon 
fled, and were not come back ten Days afterwards, 
when we returned that Way, to vifit the South-eaft 
Side, to view the great Devaftation which was made 
about OttajanOi eighteen Miles from hence j for 
though the great Difcharge of the metallic Body 
ceafed on Tuefday, (iV. B. they did not let their 
Patron budge till the next Morning) a vaft Deftrudion 
of the Country followed for a long time after 5 for 
as the Force of the Explofion was very great, it con- 
tinued to throw out vaft Showers of Cinders and 
Afhes. The Lands indeed, where the Lava’s fall, 
are annihilated to the Owners ; but the other Mate- 
rials deftroy all the Fruit and Produce of the Earth 
where they fall, which doth not recover for a long 
time j and in this unhappy Diftrid, his Majcfty hath, 
with great Goodnefs, taken off all Taxes for Tea 
Year^ 
