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Of 'Mount Vesuvius.
Bowels of the Mountain, like to that of boiling
Chaldrons.
On Tuesday the sixth of April 1694. it broke
out with a horrible Fury. I was at Naples about
fifteen Days before, and in the Night-time ob-
served some fore-runners of that Fit; the Flames
appearing now and then, through a dark and
thick Smoak. The Mountain was all on Fire,
during the remaining part of the Month ; and
the Letters from Naples to Rome, several of which
I Gw, gave an Account that it threw out the
burning Matter with such force, that some of it
reach’d Benevent, which is about 30 Miles off.
But that which was moll extraordinary, was the
prodigious quantity of melted Minerals, which it
poured out at divers places, and which run for
about three Miles. On the 2d. of May, 1694.
being at M. Ciampims Academick Conferences,
I heard a Letter read there, which gave an exadt
Account of this burning : And among other
things, that those melted Minerals which it spew-
ed up run (lowly, just like melted Tallow which
begins to cool, but at the same time carried all
things that lay in their way before them : That
one of those lazy Floods running over a great
Rock, on the other side of which was a deep
Precipice, and falling down the said Precipice
with violence, there rose from the fall so great a
Smoak that every one believed a new opening
had been made there. That the Viceroy sent a
good number of Workmen to clear the way for
those new Floods, to some convenient place
where a Chanel might be made for them, and to
prevent them from overssowing their Banks.
And that those liquid Matters congealing, at last
raised themselves into little Hills, some of which
were sixty Canes high : This seemed to some to
be very remarkable ; but at the same time was
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Bowels of the Mountain, like to that of boiling
Chaldrons.
On Tuesday the sixth of April 1694. it broke
out with a horrible Fury. I was at Naples about
fifteen Days before, and in the Night-time ob-
served some fore-runners of that Fit; the Flames
appearing now and then, through a dark and
thick Smoak. The Mountain was all on Fire,
during the remaining part of the Month ; and
the Letters from Naples to Rome, several of which
I Gw, gave an Account that it threw out the
burning Matter with such force, that some of it
reach’d Benevent, which is about 30 Miles off.
But that which was moll extraordinary, was the
prodigious quantity of melted Minerals, which it
poured out at divers places, and which run for
about three Miles. On the 2d. of May, 1694.
being at M. Ciampims Academick Conferences,
I heard a Letter read there, which gave an exadt
Account of this burning : And among other
things, that those melted Minerals which it spew-
ed up run (lowly, just like melted Tallow which
begins to cool, but at the same time carried all
things that lay in their way before them : That
one of those lazy Floods running over a great
Rock, on the other side of which was a deep
Precipice, and falling down the said Precipice
with violence, there rose from the fall so great a
Smoak that every one believed a new opening
had been made there. That the Viceroy sent a
good number of Workmen to clear the way for
those new Floods, to some convenient place
where a Chanel might be made for them, and to
prevent them from overssowing their Banks.
And that those liquid Matters congealing, at last
raised themselves into little Hills, some of which
were sixty Canes high : This seemed to some to
be very remarkable ; but at the same time was
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