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plunder, lightning, frequent concussions of the earth, 
^ dreadful subterraneous bellowings. On the Itth of 
arch, about sun-set, an immense gulf opened in the 
Mountain, into which when stones were thrown, they 
not be heard to strike the bottom. Ignited rocks, 
een teet in lengtli, were hurled to the distance of a mile 5 
e others of a smaller size were earned three miles, 
unng the night, the red-hot lava burst out of a vine- 
^5 twenty miles below tlie great crater, and ascended 
^ considerable height. In its course it de- 
oyed 5000 habitations, and filled up a lake several fathoms 
^p. It shortly after reached Catania, rose over the walls, 
snC p- considerable lengtli into the sea, forming 
fillpri^ harbour, which was, however, soon 
file Qt torrent of inflamed matter. This is 
. the hideous deformit)’’ of which, devoid of ve- 
g a ion, still disfigures tlie south and western borders of 
ania, and on which part of the noble modern city is built, 
of t “towers of scoriae and sand which, after a lapse 
callp'l°fl/f followed this eraption, formed a mountain 
a tv Rosso, having a base of about two miles, and 
of 750 feet. On the 25tli, the whole 
a to tlie most elevated peak, was agitated by 
wbirii earthquake. The highe.st crater of Etna, 
■sunk loftiest part of tlie mountain, then 
occuniprT n ' °lcanic gulf, and in the place which it had 
raore^Uiana*??! t'PPeared nothing but a wide gulf, 
nuantirio- c extent, from which issued enormous 
In 180(f rf 
flowm thp new craters opened about half way 
by which and tlirew out rivers of burning lava, 
w forty feef^ a estates were covered to the depth of thirty 
large ri vpv c j , '“S ^’^oe or fbui' successive nights a very 
extent Ti, ^ was distinctly seen, in its wliolo 
In ’*81 flown fi-om the mountain. 
Mountain r mouths opened on the eastern side of tlie 
distances ti nearly in tlie same line, and at equal 
fade,— ton-plf/ presented to the view a striking spec- 
greatest forrp / burning matter, discharged with the 
*l>e horizon to°*” interior of the volcano, illuminated 
Matter wh‘ I, ^ great extent. An immense quantity of 
' Was dnven to considerable distances, was dis- 
