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fill up the remainder of this paper with what I re- 
mark'd, and was informed of relative to it. 
I was feveral times to fee it. The inhabitants 
round the foot of the mountain told ris, that they 
felt feveral (hocks of an earthquake a day or two 
before the eruption ; as alfo feveral loud reports in 
different places of the mountain, like the bring of 
cannon, but louder. The top of it fmoak’d much 
more than ufual, and was mix’d with dreams of 
flame. The bottom of the great crater , which was 
before an indurated fcurf of bitumen and fulphur, is 
now full of large rents or openings, cover’d over 
with fal armoniac, nitre, and fulphur. The little 
mountain, from whence, before this eruption, the 
fmoke and flame iflued, and which was within the 
great crater, is now intirely funk down, and a hor- 
rible fiery gulph appears where it flood. We could 
not approach it fo near as to look down, being pre- 
vented by the fmoke and fiery matter which it threw 
out inceflantly. The concreted fcurf at the bottom 
was liquefied and boiling in feveral places ; particu- 
larly from the fiery gulph to that part of the fide of 
the mountain, whence the eruption broke out, a canal 
was funk down, in breadth fome feet. 
On the 2 5 of October, in a place call’d Atrio del 
Cavallo, on the eaft fide of the mountain, a fiery 
fluid, like melted glafs in a furnace, burfl @ut, or 
rather feemed to boil over, which ran down the de- 
clivity of the mountain with great velocity and force, 
carrying along with it large (tones, gravel, calcin’d 
earth, &c. In fix hours time it ran four miles, and 
cover’d vafl tracts of fine land ; deftroy’d many farm- 
houfes, villa's, and vineyards. It is computed to 
have 
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