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I have, fays he, fccn the famous Sulphur-Spring, 
a Mile diftant from Pozzoli, mentioned by Petro- 
mus Arbiter : At the lower End of the Plain there is 
a Pit of liquid Sulphur, whofe boiling A£ftuations 
rife ten or twelve Feet. Its liquid Matter confumes 
the Flefh of any Corpfe, but does not affed the Bones 
in the lead. In our Cafe the very Bones were burnt 
to Afhes ; and Bill the Pavement was not damaged, 
"No fulphureous Smell remained in the Chamber. 
All this he advances, to oppofe the Opinion of an 
Academician at Ravenna , who infilled, That under- 
neath that Chamber muft be a fulphureous Mine. 
Which Opinion he founds on this, That, in the very 
Houfe, in a Room near that the Lady was burnt in, 
there was fet on Fire a good Quantity of Hemp, and 
could not be found out by whom ; as alfo, thar, all 
on a fudden, Part of the Palace had fallen, and not 
by any Earthquake; fo that one might conjedure all 
this to be Elfeds of the fulphureous Mine under- 
ground ; Which is not proved by thofe Aflertions. 
Nay, on the contrary, if there was a Mine of Sulphur, 
one fhould fmell the Stink of it in thofe dull Days, 
when the naufeous South Wind blows; the Sulphur 
Mines then (linking at a great Diliance : Befides, the 
Effeds of Sulphur are not to reduce a Body into im- 
palpable Afhes. 
The Authors Opinion . 
HPHE Fire was caufed in the Entrails of the Body by 
• inflamed Effluvia of her Blood, by Juices and Fer- 
mentations in the Stomach, by the many combuftible 
Matters which are abundant in living Bodies for the 
fJfej> pf Life ; and, finally, by the fiery Evaporations 
which 
