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near the City of Naples. 181
Confusion of never so many different
Bodies, if they had been all actually dif-
solv’d, they would at least have form’d
one continu’d Crust, as we see the Sco-
rium of Metals always gathers into a so-
lid Piece,let it be compounded of aThou-
sand Heterogeneous Parts. I am apt to
think therefore, that these huge unwieldy
Lumps that now lye one upon another,
as if thrown together by Accident, re-
main’d in the melted Matter rigid and
unliquify’d, ssoating in it like Cakes of
Ice in a River, and that, as the Fire and
Ferment gradually abated, they adjusted
themseves together as well as their irre-
gular Figures would permit, and by this
means fell into such an interrupted dis-
orderly Heap, as we now find it. What
was the melted Matter lyes at the Bot-
tom out of sight. After having quitted
the Side of this long Heap, which was
once a Stream of Fire, we came to the
Roots of the Mountain, and had a v£ry
troublesome March to gain the’Top of
it. It is cover’d on all Sides with a kind
of burnt Earth, very dry, and crumbled
into Powder, as if it had been artifici-
ally lifted. It is very hot under the Feet,
and mix’d with several burnt Stones and
Cakes of Cinders, which have been
thrown out at disferent times. A Man
sinks
Confusion of never so many different
Bodies, if they had been all actually dif-
solv’d, they would at least have form’d
one continu’d Crust, as we see the Sco-
rium of Metals always gathers into a so-
lid Piece,let it be compounded of aThou-
sand Heterogeneous Parts. I am apt to
think therefore, that these huge unwieldy
Lumps that now lye one upon another,
as if thrown together by Accident, re-
main’d in the melted Matter rigid and
unliquify’d, ssoating in it like Cakes of
Ice in a River, and that, as the Fire and
Ferment gradually abated, they adjusted
themseves together as well as their irre-
gular Figures would permit, and by this
means fell into such an interrupted dis-
orderly Heap, as we now find it. What
was the melted Matter lyes at the Bot-
tom out of sight. After having quitted
the Side of this long Heap, which was
once a Stream of Fire, we came to the
Roots of the Mountain, and had a v£ry
troublesome March to gain the’Top of
it. It is cover’d on all Sides with a kind
of burnt Earth, very dry, and crumbled
into Powder, as if it had been artifici-
ally lifted. It is very hot under the Feet,
and mix’d with several burnt Stones and
Cakes of Cinders, which have been
thrown out at disferent times. A Man
sinks