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“ towards Naples, others carrying quantities of birds 
“ of various forts that had fallen dead at the time the 
“ eruption began, others again with fifh which they 
“ had found, and were to be met with in plenty 
“ upon the fliore, the fea having been at that time 
confiderably dried up. Don Petrodi Toledo, Vice- 
“ roy of the kingdom, with many gentlemen, went 
to fee fo v/onderful an appearance; 1 alfo, having 
“ met with the molt honourable and incomparable 
gentleman, Signior Fabritio Moramaldo, on the 
“ road, went and faw the eruption and the many 
“ wonderful effects of it. The fea towards Baia 
“ had retired a conhderable way; though from the 
“ quantity of allies and broken pumice ftones thrown 
“ up by the eruption, it appeared almofl totally dry. 
“ I faw likewife two fprings in thofe lately-difcover- 
“ ed ruins, one before the houfe that was the queen’s, 
“ of hot and fait water; the other of frelh and cold 
“ water, on the fliore, about 250 paces nearer to the 
“ eruption: fome fay, that Hill nearer to the fpot 
“ where the eruption happened, a flream of frefh 
“ water iffued forth like a little river. Turning to- 
wards the place of the eruption, you faw mountains 
“ of fmoak, part of which was very black and part 
“ very white, rife up to a great height; and in the 
midll of the fmoke, at times, deep-coloured flames 
“ burfl. forth with huge ftones and allies, and you 
heard a noife like the difeharge of a number of 
“ great artillery. It appeared to me as if Typheus 
“ and Enceladus from Ifchia and Etna wdth inumc- 
“ rable giants, or thole from the Campi Phlegrei 
“ (which according to the opinions of fome were 
*' lituaied in this neighbouiliood), were come to 
“ wage 
