t , Fountains. i^v 
coSrnof'be complete body of fire., 
breadth, and castino- a f, ‘'f " miles and a half m 
miles around, “ ^ ^ distance of at least .six 
The eruption nfi'^n i- 
above writer • but h-i/,T f i*ccurately described by (he 
llie one cited’ above ' -ci°„ of interest with 
'vhich is a circumstanrp ^n particulars, anioiuj 
toan e,stiinate of t it lead! 
dham says that althontPff volcanoe.s. Sir 
"•as instantly Srm.id 2 , 
saved themselves bv ‘ lava, the inhabitants 
on tlie followino- X f P' “’® tops of their houses 
tlrat if this lava Si bleu hot f tMr. Kirwan, 
most fusible stones, these iP, . ™elt even the 
focated. " ® peisoits must have been suf- 
aT“n5?, S wa? ^n 
earthquake, which “ >*imck of an 
same moment a fountain' m 
';et7 black smoke and ? " with a 
tise to a considerable heio-ht ^‘'1^”"^’ to issue, and 
^one ,of Vesuvius Tt“ ^ te middle of the 
fountains, fifteen of which 2*^ hastily succeeded by other 
J^fong, for the spacrif i '=°!tnted, all in a direct line, 
fipry scene-^tlfs o-i- !• and lone del Greco. This 
{I'fd hytheion'tK^^^ nature-was ac^ontit 
Jhe those of a 1^^' ‘""f °P^hich, 
« continued hollow r[°t 1 ^t^teiided by 
f .the ocean durinP.? P’ °P tlie roaring 
resembled that of fP"' "^"°‘her blowinl 
'■^kets. ThehouscsafN^e"'“"'f^^ of 
extant ti-emour thf d ^ hours in a 
«tthng incessanti; fl f '‘haking and 
‘^“ment the skyfw 'T.-^fh/inging. At tl, is “awful 
ecame obscured - tb ' '*ght lull-moon and star-light, 
mentations of a nn^ ^ murmur ot the prayers and 
processions, and para^Pthe various 
^ ^ streets, added to (he lioirors 
ollowing (lay a new mouth was opened on tlie 
