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Hack in an inftant, but lias no effecft upon gold. 
It your lordmip pleafes, I will fend you by another 
opportunity fpecimens of the fulphurs and falts of 
the So/fa terra , which leetn to be very different from 
thefe. 
Within thefe three days, the fire has appeared again 
on the top of Vefuvius, and earthquakes have been felt 
in the neighbourhood of the mountain. I was there 
on faturday with my nephew lord Oreville; we 
heard mod dreadful inward grumblings, rattling of 
ftor.es, and hilling ; and were obliged to leave the 
crater very foon, on account of the emiffion of ftones. 
The black fmoke arofe as before the laft eruption ; 
and 1 law every fymptom of a new eruption, of which 
I /hall not fail to give your lord/hip an exaft account. 
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