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of g their wives, and wives their husbands, in the village 
of it, '''here there were very few who had not lost some 
pgfj nearest connexions. In other places we found many 
a tho^* ®*tended upon the ground, wounded or bruised in 
OQt,^'®®t>d Ways. Some with their legs broken, some with- 
'^ith'^’ ®°tne with their sculls fractured, and others covered 
lo'v„]jj^°tinds. Many died immediately, others on thefol- 
lao^i and the rest were abandoned to the most me- 
in ^ ^^te, without physicians, without medicines, and 
Fiv''^ of necessary food. 
tion . P°Pnl°us towns were entirely destroyed by the erup- 
atnij, twelve hundred of the inhabitants perished 
the r , j and the twenty thousand who survived 
a ^ '^^tastrophe, were stripped of their possessions and 
TheVk'^® ggary. 
rnost' ^V*^®®'l“ent tippearance of the volcanic mountain was 
Ci;l(jv^®^“‘'choly and terrific. Its side, formeriy so well 
turgg- ttnd which afforded a prospect the most pic- 
*ticl ash^’ become a barren sand. The stones, sand, 
cover it, in some places exceed the depth of 
•hcviiijj^'^®^''® ; 2nd on the ground where lately stood 
alm^'^°^^2diao, ther e are spots, inwhich the cocoa-trees 
'vhT ruined villages, and through 
’1 the eruption, the ground remains buried 
*tee is 1“"*^ *0 the depth of half a yard, and scarcely a single 
*hori. 2lh'e. The crater of the volcano has lowered 
ver 
• ^ 2 spacious and horrid mouth, winch is frightful to 
hundred and twenty feet ; and the south side 
thev:„ ^spaC • 
j., >ie\v T.. 
'‘‘''tancefr ^ 
ashe. principal crater, through which also smoke 
^ihil vilJu ’”icessautly emitted. In short, the most beau- 
: new ones have opened at a considerable 
Camari’ncs, and the principal part of that 
“'2e, are deeply covei'ed with barren sand. 
^^Unds which have risen from 
5,3, THE SEA. 
moiu® convulsions of nature displayed in volcanoes, 
> historv‘^“’“''^“ti'c particulars of which we have given in 
^0wth/f“f t"t'untains, other operations ase earned on 
•athomless depths of die sea, die nature of which 
