an Eruption of Mount Vefuvius. 67 
After having palled through the moft fertile country, 
abounding with trees loaded with fruits of every kind, 
and the moll luxuriant vegetation, through gay villages 
crouded with chearful inhabitants, to come at once to 
fuch a fcene of defolation and mifery, affording to our 
view nothing but heaps of black cinders and allies, 
blalled trees, ruined houfes, with a few of their fcattered 
inhabitants juft returned with ghaftly, difmayed coun- 
tenances, to furvey the liavock done to their tenements 
and habitations, and from which they themfelves had 
with much difficulty efcaped alive on Sunday laft, was 
fuch a melancholy fcene as can neither be defcribed or 
forgotten. 
We found the roof of his Sicilian Majefty’s {porting 
feat at Caccia-bella much damaged by the fall of large 
ftones and heavy fcoria , fome of which, after having 
been broken by their fall through the roof, Hill weighed 
upwards of thirty pounds. This place, in a direct line, 
cannot be lefs than four miles from the crater of Vefu- 
vius. 
The moft authentic accounts have been received of 
the fall of fmall volcanic ftones and cinders (fome of 
which weighed two ounces) at Benevento, Foggia, and 
Monte Mileto, upwards of thirty miles from Vefu- 
K a 
vius ; 
