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(illegible text)ide of the mountain, came down with a horrid (illegible text)ing noiſe; and ſome of then, after having (illegible text)ed their way through the narrow gullies of the (illegible text)ntain, roſe to the height of more than twenty (illegible text) and were wear half a mile in extent. The (illegible text), of which the torrents were compoſed, being (illegible text)nd of natural mortar, completely caſed up and (illegible text)ed ſome thouſand acres of rich vineyards; for (illegible text)on becomes ſo hard, that nothing leſs than a axe can break it up.
The laudable curioſity of our author induced him (illegible text)o upon Mount Veſuvius, as ſoon as it was con(illegible text)t with any degree of prudence, which was not (illegible text) the 30th of June, and even then it was at(illegible text)ed with ſome riſk. The crater of Veſuvius, (illegible text)pt at ſhort intervals, had been continually ob(illegible text)ed by the volcanic clouds from the 16th, and ſo on that day, with frequent flashes of light(illegible text) playing in thoſe clouds, and attended as usu(illegible text)d a noiſe like thunder; and the fine aſhes were (illegible text) falling on Veſuvius, but ſtill more on the (illegible text)ntain of Somma. Sir William went up the (illegible text) way by Reſina, and obſerved, in his way (illegible text)ugh that village, that many of the ſtones of the (illegible text)ment had been looſened, and were deranged (illegible text)he earthquakes, particularly by that of the (illegible text), which attended the falling in of the crater of (illegible text) volcano, and which had been ſo violent as to (illegible text)w many people down, and obliged all the in(illegible text)tants of Reſina to quit their houſes haſtily, to (illegible text)ch they did not dare return for two days. The (illegible text)s of all the vines were burnt by the aſhes that (illegible text) fallen on them, and many of the vines them(illegible text)es we buried under the aſhes, and great (illegible text)iches of the trees that ſupported them had been (illegible text) off by their weight. In ſhort, nothing but (illegible text) and deſolation was to be ſeen. The (illegible text) a
