the late Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 115 
view was taken from Naples, and gives a very good idea of the 
appearance of Mount Vesuvius, like a mole-hill, in comparison 
of the enormous mass that hung over it. 
Tab. VIII. Is a view of Mount Vesuvius, and of Somrna, 
taken from Posilipo July 6th, 1794, when it could be clearly 
distinguished ; the dotted lines shew the form of the top of 
Vesuvius as it was before this eruption, and when the crater 
was. only from A to B ; the present wide extended crater is 
sufficiently plain in the drawing not to need .any further ex- 
planation ; the spot from whence the lava first issued the night 
of the 15th of June, is marked C. 
These four very exact drawings were taken from nature by 
Signor Xaverio Gatta, successor to Signor Pietro Fabris. 
Tab. IX. Is a drawing made by the Padre Antonio Piaggi 
at Resina, during the force of the eruption of the 15th at 
night ; and being within a mile and a half of the mountain, 
shews many particulars that escaped us, so much farther oft' at 
Naples ; but he was interrupted by the imminent danger of his 
situation, and his drawing is incomplete : it was with diffi- 
culty that his friends carried him off alive, being upwards of 
80 years old, in the midst of a shower of heavy cinders and 
sulphureous ashes, an hour after the beginning.of the eruption ; 
nor was he able to return to his house for many days. No- 
thing is necessary to be added to his Latin references to the 
drawing, but that Turris VIII. is Torre del Greco , and Retina, 
now Resina. 
A. Montis vertex innubis, compositusque. 
B. ad H. Sulci rudes inhianti terrae frequenter inscripti. 
D. Ignei rivi fluentes Retinam versus. 
