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in that part : and this has proved true j for the firft 
fmoke from the top foon after decreafed, probably 
from the vent obtained at the foot; and ever fince 
funfet, we have feen the foot all on fire. It is now 
burning with great violence in that part, it being 
about eleven o’clock at night. The direction of the 
line of fire, as we fee it, is from the mountain to- 
wards the fea, and runs, as we judge here, in that 
part, where Pliny’s Lava, as it is called, came down 
to the fea. The prefent lava cannot, we think, be 
far from the fea. We fuppofe, that the mountain has 
burft in its fide, ibmewhere much nearer the fummit ; 
but that the lava has run down under the old lava, 
till it broke out where the fire now is. The line of 
fire, we think, mull be two, if not three, miles in 
length. 
Mr. Lowther, and his companion Mr. Watfon, 
were at the mountain, when the fmoke broke out at 
the fummit, and had almoft climbed its height ; but 
were fortunately to the windward of it, or they mull 
have been deftroyed. The noife, they fay, was 
fhocking to them, and the ftones thrown up very 
alarming. Their guides fled firft, and they after 
them ; and they have efcaped all harm, but the fa- 
tigue. As the poft fets out in a quarter of an hour, 
I can only haftily aflure you of my being truly 
Yours, &c. 
F. H. Eyles Stiles. 
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