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IX. Another Accomt of the fame Eruption 
of Mount Vefuvius : In a Letter to Daniel 
Wray, Ffq\ F. R. S. from Sir Francis 
Hafkins Eyles Stiles, Bart . F. R, S , 
Dear Sir, Naples, 29th Dec. 1760, 
Rea f-6^ 5 ’ A P u ^^ c exhibitions are prohibited 
17 ' for a few day?, on account of the 
eruption of Vefuvius; and intcreft is making with 
the faint of the place, to protect the city from the mis- 
chiefs, which the mountain is fuppofed to be threaten- 
ing us with. There is, indeed, a very extraordinary 
eruption at or near the foot of the mountain; but it 
bodes no evil to Naples in the opinion of any, but 
the very timorous, who take in all pofiibilities, and 
who are led to imagine, from this eruption at filch a 
diftance from the fummit, that the foil, on which 
we ftand, is not to be trufted.’ This new eruption 
began on the 23d inftant: it was accompanied by a 
very extraordinary one at the fummit, which I was 
an eye-witnefs of, from our own windows, about 
noon ; and, I believe,, this was a very few minutes 
after it happened. Mr. Lovvther, and his compa- 
nion Mr. Watfon, were, at that time, climbing the 
mountain, and, with the Abbate Clemente their an- 
tiquary, and fome ruftic guides, were arrived within 
fifty yards of the fummit, when it burft out. The 
dames, and the acccnfed (tones thrown up, were 
very terrible, by their account; fome of the latter, 
as large as foot-bails, fell on their fide; but the 
greater part fell on the other fide the mountain. 
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