houſe by the lava a part of which had even en(illegible text)red one of the rooms; yet he actually ſaved all his (illegible text)eworks and gunpowder ſome days after, by car(illegible text)ing them ſafely over the ſcoriae of the lava, while (illegible text) was red hot underneath. The heat in the ſtreets (illegible text) the town, at this time, was ſo great as to riſe (illegible text)e thermometer to very near one hundred degrees, {{illegible}d cloſe to the hot lava it roſe much higher. Sir William remarked in his way home, that there was much greater quantity of the petroleum floating (illegible text) the ſurface of the ſea, and diffuſing a very ſtrong (illegible text)d offenſive ſmell, than was uſual, for at all times (illegible text) calms, patches of this bituminous oil are to be (illegible text)en floating on the ſurface of the ſea between Por(illegible text)i and Naples, and particularly oppoſite a village (illegible text)led Pietra Bianca. The minute aſhes continued (illegible text)lling at Naples; and the mountain, totally obſcur(illegible text) by them, continued to alarm the inhabitants (illegible text)th repeated loud exploſions.
On Wedneſday June 18, the wind having for a (illegible text)ort ſpace of time cleared away the thick cloud (illegible text)om the top of Veſuvius, it was now diſcovered (illegible text)at a great part of its crater, particularly on the (illegible text)eft ſide oppoſite Naples, had fallen in, which it (illegible text)obably did about four o'clock in the morning of (illegible text)at day, as a violent ſhock of an earthquake was (illegible text)t at that moment at Refina, and other parts ſitu(illegible text)ed at the foot of the volcano. The clouds of (illegible text)oke, mixed with the aſhes, were of ſuch a den(illegible text)y was to appear to have the greateſt difficulty in (illegible text)rcing their paſſage out of the now widly extended (illegible text)outh of Veſuvius, which, ſince the top fell in, is (illegible text)ſcribed as not much ſhort of two miles in circum(illegible text)rence. One cloud heaped on another, and ſue(illegible text)eeding one another inceſſantly; formed in a few (illegible text)urs ſuch a gigantic and elevated column of the (illegible text)rkeſt hue over the mountain, as ſeemed to threaten
