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POMPEIANA. 61
Ambrosius Nolanus relates an account
of an eruption about 1500, and mentions
having heard of another seventy years
before. In the Annals of Italy we find
one during the pontificate of Benedict IX :
but the notices respecting these are un-
certain. Meanwhile the neighbouring vol-
canoes were not inactive. The last erup-
tion of Solfatara was in the year 1198 ;
Ischia ceased 1302; and the Monte Nuovo,
three miles in circumference, formed in
forty-eight hours, 1538; while in the
interim JEtna had sixteen explosions.
But the accounts we have from those
who saw the crater of Vesuvius at the be-
ginning of the seventeenth century, clearly
lead to the conclusion, that this volcano
must have remained in a comparative state
of inactivity for a considerable period.
Pighi, during the pontificate of Six-
tus V, compares the then existing crater
to an immense amphitheatre, the arena
Ambrosius Nolanus relates an account
of an eruption about 1500, and mentions
having heard of another seventy years
before. In the Annals of Italy we find
one during the pontificate of Benedict IX :
but the notices respecting these are un-
certain. Meanwhile the neighbouring vol-
canoes were not inactive. The last erup-
tion of Solfatara was in the year 1198 ;
Ischia ceased 1302; and the Monte Nuovo,
three miles in circumference, formed in
forty-eight hours, 1538; while in the
interim JEtna had sixteen explosions.
But the accounts we have from those
who saw the crater of Vesuvius at the be-
ginning of the seventeenth century, clearly
lead to the conclusion, that this volcano
must have remained in a comparative state
of inactivity for a considerable period.
Pighi, during the pontificate of Six-
tus V, compares the then existing crater
to an immense amphitheatre, the arena