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fand below water, you are obliged to get rid of it 
directly, on account of its intenfe heat. 
I had been long very defirous of meeting with a 
good account of the formation of this new mountain, 
becaufe, proving this mountain to have been raifed 
by meer explofion in a plain, would prove at the 
fame time, that all the neighbouring mountains, 
which are compofed of the fame materials, and have 
exactly or in part the fame form, were raifed in 
the like manner, and that the feat of fire, thecaufe of 
thefe explofions, lies deep, which I have every reafon 
to think. 
Fortunately, I lately found two very good accounts 
of the phsenomena that attended the explofion, which 
formed the new mountain, publifhed a few months 
after the event. As I think them very curious, and 
greatly to my purpofe, and as they are rare, I Vv^ill 
give you a literal tranflation of fuch extradls as relate 
to the formation of the Monte Nuovo. They are 
bound in one volume^. 
The title of the firff is Dell Incendio di Pozzuoloy 
Marco Antonio dclii Falconi all llluftrijjima Sig?iiora 
Marcheja della Padula W MDXXXVIll. 
At the head of the fecond is, Ragionamento del 
F'erremotOy del Nuovo Monte, del Aprimento di Terra 
in Pozzuolo neir Anno 1538. e della JigniJicatione 
d’ejji. Per Piero Giacomo da Toledo j and at the end of 
the book, Stampata in Nap. per Giovanni Sulztbach 
AlemanOy a 2idi Genaro 1539, con gratia, e privilegio. 
“ Firfl then (fays Marco Antonio delli Falconi), 
“ will I relate fimply and exadtly the operations of 
* This very fcarce volume has been prefented by Mr. Hamil- 
ton to the Britifh Mulcum. M. M. 
“ nature. 
