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214 A TOUR THROUGH
door; and sure'ly it is consistent wi'h reason,
that the thinner the air is, the less its impres-
sion must be on the ear; for in a vacuum
there can be no noise, or no impression can
he made; and the nearer the approach to a
vacuum, the impression must always be
the smaller. Where those great effects have
been produced, it must have been amongst
a number of mountains, where the sound
is reverberated from one to the other.
When we arrived at the foot of the
cone, we observed some rocks of an incre-
dible size, that have been discharged from
the crater. The largest that has been ob-
served from Vesuvius, is a round one of
about twelve feet diameter. These are
much greater; indeed almost in proportion
of the mountains to each other,
On our arrival at the Torre del Filoso-
fo, we could not help admiring, that the
ruins
door; and sure'ly it is consistent wi'h reason,
that the thinner the air is, the less its impres-
sion must be on the ear; for in a vacuum
there can be no noise, or no impression can
he made; and the nearer the approach to a
vacuum, the impression must always be
the smaller. Where those great effects have
been produced, it must have been amongst
a number of mountains, where the sound
is reverberated from one to the other.
When we arrived at the foot of the
cone, we observed some rocks of an incre-
dible size, that have been discharged from
the crater. The largest that has been ob-
served from Vesuvius, is a round one of
about twelve feet diameter. These are
much greater; indeed almost in proportion
of the mountains to each other,
On our arrival at the Torre del Filoso-
fo, we could not help admiring, that the
ruins