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be determined to fome other direction. The mouths 
are faid to have been fourteen in all at firft, after- 
wards reduced to eight, and now, I believe, much 
fewer. There are three hillocks, large enough to 
be diflinguifhed at Naples, that are formed by the 
Hones and matter thrown up at thefe mouths, and 
one of them is already a young mountain. Some 
imagine the eruption will lad; many months, as the 
lower eruptions have generally bailed longed: j and 
this, I think, is a great deal lower than any that 
ever happened. 
F. H, Eyles Stiles*. 
X. Extra El of a Letter from M?\ Robert. 
Mack inlay > to the Right Hon. the Earl of 
Morton, i 7 . R. S . dated at Rome, the 
otJ> January 1761. concerning the late 
E?’uption of Rlount Vefuvius, and the Dif 
covery of an antient Statue of Venus at 
Rome. 
$ead Feb. 19, / r tjMHERE has been a mod: terrible 
l/ u eruption lately of mount Vefuvius,. 
about the latter end of lad: month, but the accounts 
hitherto arrived are not very diflindt:. however, they 
all agree, that there were nine new mouths, or open- 
ings, towards the Torre del Greco and Annonciada :: 
that very condderable fhocks of an earthquake were 
felt all over Naples : that neither fire nor fmoke came 
eat of the old crater; that the lava had run into the 
fea.; 
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