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SICILY AND MALTA. 29
explosion causes a fresh illumination : This
I have observed always to be the case with
Vesuvius; except when the lava has risen
to the summit of the mountain, and con-
tinued without variety to illuminate the
air round it.—The light from Strombolo
evidently depends on some other cause.
Sometimes a clear red flame isTues from the
crater of the mountain, and continues to
blaze without interruption, for near the
space of half an hour. The fire is of a
disferent colour from the explosions of
stones, and is evidently produced from a
different cause. It would seem as if some
inssammable substance were suddenly kin-
dled up in the bowels of the mountain. It
is attended with no noise, nor explosion
that we are sensible of. It has now fallen
calm, and we shall probably have an op-
portunity of examining this volcano more
minutely to-morrow. We were told at
Naples that it had lately made a violent
eruption, and had begun to form a new
issand
explosion causes a fresh illumination : This
I have observed always to be the case with
Vesuvius; except when the lava has risen
to the summit of the mountain, and con-
tinued without variety to illuminate the
air round it.—The light from Strombolo
evidently depends on some other cause.
Sometimes a clear red flame isTues from the
crater of the mountain, and continues to
blaze without interruption, for near the
space of half an hour. The fire is of a
disferent colour from the explosions of
stones, and is evidently produced from a
different cause. It would seem as if some
inssammable substance were suddenly kin-
dled up in the bowels of the mountain. It
is attended with no noise, nor explosion
that we are sensible of. It has now fallen
calm, and we shall probably have an op-
portunity of examining this volcano more
minutely to-morrow. We were told at
Naples that it had lately made a violent
eruption, and had begun to form a new
issand