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was instituted to commemorate tlie event. Muratori* * * § , 
however, quotes Baronius and Cassiodorus to show that 
this was somewhat exaggerated. The latter authors 
allow that the ashes fell in the Adriatic, justifying the 
assertion by a similar phenomenon experienced in their 
own times. Sigoniusf affirms that it is true with respect 
to Constantinople, and Giralorao Brusoni, as quoted by 
Botta, seems to admit the fact; for he quotes it as hav¬ 
ing: been the case in 1631. His words are,—“ Portata 
dai venti volasse fino all’ archipelago, come altre volte jece 
in Africa, in Soria, e a Costantinopoli, dove si legge, che 
si celebrasse ogni anno la memoria di cos6 strano 
accidcnte.’’^ 
Capt. Badily mentions that ashes fell on his ship at 
10 p. m., 6th December, 1631, at Volo, and on ships 
coming from Jean d’Acre, and 100 miles distant from 
Volo.§ Botta and Dr. Daubeny give the date 16th 
December. It is said that in this eruption the ashes lay 
to the depth of from 20 to 100 palms (17 to 86 English 
feet) round Vesuvius; and that ashes fell the same day 
at Lecce to S. E., and at Bari to E., being at Ariano 
several inches thick.|| 
In the great eruption of A. D. 79, a similar extension 
of ashes occurred; and Dio Cassius^ distinctly states, that 
they were carried not only to Greece, Syria, and Egypt, 
but also to Rome, the winds employed being evidently 
west, for the falling of the ashes at Rome to the north, 
like the fall of them at Pompeii to the south west, was, 
perhaps, little more than the effect of the projectile 
* Annali d’ Italia, anno 472, tom. iii. p. 214. 
f Histoire du Bas Empire, ch. 88, p. 59. 
t Storia d’ Italia, v. 10. 
§ Phil. Trans. 1660, Polehampton, iv. 161. 
|| Hamilton’s Letters to the Royal Society, p. 34. 
; If Conflag. Vesevi. 
