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“ many columns of fmoke llioot up, with the mofl 
“ terrible noife I ever heard, and, bending over the 
“ fea, came near our boat, which was four miles or 
more from the place of their birth; and the quan- 
“ tity of afhes, flones, and fmoke, feemed as if they 
would cover the whole earth and fea. Stones, great 
“ and fmall, and afhes more or lefs, according to the 
impulfe of the fire and exhalations, began to fall, 
“ fo that a great part of this ’country was covered 
“ with afhes; 'and many that have feen it, fay, they 
“ reached the vale of Diana, and fome parts of 
“ Calabria, which are more than 150 miles from 
“ Pozzuolo. The Friday and Saturday nothing but 
“ a little fmoke appeared, fo that many, taking cou- 
“ rage, went upon the fpot, and fay, that with the 
“ ftones and aflaes thrown up, a mountain has been 
“ formed in that valley, not lefs than three miles in 
“ circumference, and almoft as high as the monte 
“ Barbaro, which is near it, covering the Canettaria, 
the caftle of Trepergule, all thole buildings and 
“ the greatefi: part of the baths that were about 
“ them; extending South towards the fea. North as 
“ far as the lake of Avernus, Wefi: to the Sudatory, 
“ and joining Eafl: to the foot of the monte Barbaro, 
fo that this place has changed its form and face in 
“ fuch a manner as not to be known again, a thing 
“ almofi incredible to thofe wlio have not feen it, 
that in lb fliort a time fo confiderable a mountain 
could have been formed. On its fummit there is a 
“ mouth 'in the form of a cup, which may be a 
quarter of a mile in circumference, though fome 
“ lay it is as large as our market-place at Naples, from 
which there ilTiies a conllant, fmoke ; and tliough 
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