r 1 
Mr. George Edwards, Librarian of the College of 
Phyficians, having lately drawn, and etched on a 
copper-plate, the hand of this boy, in fuch manner, 
•as to fl:iew the palm Lee from thefe excrefcencies, 
and its other parts covered with them ; and alfo a 
company of the excrefcencies, as they appear where 
larged: ; a copy of the faid plate, which I was fa- 
voured with by him, is now prefented with this ac- 
count. 
January 23, 1755. 
VI. ExtraB of the Subjlance of Three 
Letters from Ifaac Jamineau, Efq\ his 
Majefty s Conful at Naples, to Sir Francis 
Hofldns Eyies Stiles, Bart, and F. R. S\ 
co 72 cerning .the late Eruption of Mount 
Vefuvius. 
T N the firft of thefe letters, which is 
read Jan. 9, 1755. ^ dated December 7, I7y4, Mr. Ja- 
mineau acquaints Sir Francis, that they were then 
in the third day of an eruption of Vefuvius, which 
already far exceeded the 1 aft in j/yi, and bids fair 
to equal any of thofe fince the burial of Hercula- 
neum. It is fome time that they have expefled the 
prefent, from foregoing circumftances, fimilar to, 
though more extraordinary than, thofe of former 
eruptions. Mr. Jamineau himfelf was witnefs to 
the following ones. In April laft, the fire iftued 
from one end of a hillock, in the ftiape of a crefeent, 
within the crater, to which you defeended from the 
upper 
