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great ^ ^ 
from the conflict of die ^Sei auSSe ^ 
lion of 1 806,"^hic°/ vvitlf'^'T notice of the erap- 
Place on die’ evening nf sensible indication, look 
frame rose from the mn ^ briglit 
fret, sinking ^ 
a light, diat°a letter mil ht ’’ “frording so clear 
of a league aro.iL iP H'e distance 
moniinc;, without m On the following 
customary, the volcaim*l^rv^T^^- been 
from three new rimml inflamed substances 
about G.50 feet from «’ to each' other, and 
direction of Torre del r,-'^ ®timmit. The lava took die 
Portici, on the road i„^v° ■^riiimiciata, approaching 
Tlirougliout the whole of tb ^ Naples to Pompeii, 
beard, resemblino- that n/i 
discharges of arttUerv anH engaged, when the 
current of lava '^t^isk. The 
frtsioii, sparks and i a wall of glass in a state of 
bme. widi a nowerfi i a *®^tnng from it from time to 
'Whatever obiectn? i ®‘°"“‘’°"- frees, liouses,- 
*n«lanilv overtlir^, ^ tort, it encountered on its way, were 
tPet with the re«‘ I*^ destroyed. In one part, where it 
Are. In a ® "'a}k it formed a cascade of 
'vere covered wwV , '"'‘^1. Resina, and Torre del Greco, 
on tire ninth rhp thrown out by the volcano 5 and, 
frt'ck black rain n ftelaged with a 
sulphureous pa,tipW ® ™ud tilled with 
Crater li.'id whollv H'"' S duly, die ancient 
und a nS PP®^”-®d. being filled with ashes aird 
Ij'c niountnin nhnnf^r/v'^‘''.f formed in die eastern part of 
same wklih nr ri depth, and '‘aviiig about 
above day, d^\scendn T Several persons, on the 
fdmiring die s^^et. 1 ' “ear the flames, 
bubbled up at tile'll! P‘®'‘^®ulcd by the liquid lava, which 
„ "^itts eruption continued uiiti 
^ the mos’t tekibbThat "h T^’ as 01 
*b« inhabitants occurred in die memory 
