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212 A TOUR THROUGH
the crater is the great mouth of the vol-
cano. That tremendous gulph so cele-
brated in all ages, looked upon as the terror
and scourge both of this and another life;
and equally useful to ancient poets, or to
modern divines, when the Muse, or when
the Spirit inspires. We beheld it with
awe and with horror, and were not sur-
prised that it had been considered as the
place of the damned. When we ressect on
the immensity os its depth, the vast cells
and caverns whence so many lavas have
isTued; the force of its internal fire, to
raise up those lavas to so vast a height, to
support it as it were in the air, and even
force it over the very summit of the crater,
with all the dreadful accompaniments;
the boiling of the matter, the making of
the mountain, the exploiions of ssaming
rocks, &ct we must allow, that the moll
enthusiastic imagination, in the midst of all
its terrors, hardly ever formed an idea of
a hell more dreadful.
It
the crater is the great mouth of the vol-
cano. That tremendous gulph so cele-
brated in all ages, looked upon as the terror
and scourge both of this and another life;
and equally useful to ancient poets, or to
modern divines, when the Muse, or when
the Spirit inspires. We beheld it with
awe and with horror, and were not sur-
prised that it had been considered as the
place of the damned. When we ressect on
the immensity os its depth, the vast cells
and caverns whence so many lavas have
isTued; the force of its internal fire, to
raise up those lavas to so vast a height, to
support it as it were in the air, and even
force it over the very summit of the crater,
with all the dreadful accompaniments;
the boiling of the matter, the making of
the mountain, the exploiions of ssaming
rocks, &ct we must allow, that the moll
enthusiastic imagination, in the midst of all
its terrors, hardly ever formed an idea of
a hell more dreadful.
It