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colour, or a bright white, and in ſome parts (illegible text) a deep green and azure blue (ſo that the whole (illegible text)er had the effect of an iris) all had the ap(illegible text)nce of a ſandy deſert. Our adventurers then (illegible text) on the top of ſeven of the moſt conſiderable of (illegible text) new formed mountains, and looked into their (illegible text)s, which on ſome of them appeared to be lit(illegible text)ort of half a mile in circumference; and al(illegible text)h the exterior perpendicular heigh of any (illegible text)em did not exceed two hundred feet, the (illegible text) of their inverted cone within was three times (illegible text)eat. It would not have been poſſible to have (illegible text)ed on theſe new mountains near their craters, (illegible text)ey had not taken the precaution of tying a (illegible text)e handkerchief over their mouths and noſtrils; (illegible text) even with that precaution they could not re(illegible text)ng, the fumes of the vitriolic acid were ſo ex(illegible text)agly penetrating, and of ſuch a ſuffocating (illegible text)y. They found in one a double crater, like (illegible text)unnels joined together; and in all there was (illegible text) little ſmoke and depoſitions of ſalts and ſul(illegible text), of the various colours abovementioned, juſt (illegible text) commonly ſeen adhering to the inner walls of (illegible text)rincipal crater of Veſuvius.
(illegible text)o or three days after they had been there, one (illegible text)e new mouths, into which they had looked, (illegible text)nly made a great exploſion of ſtones, ſmoke, (illegible text) aſhes, which would certainly have proved fatal (illegible text)one who might unfortunately have been (illegible text) at the time of the exploſion. We read of a (illegible text)r accident having proved fatal to more than (illegible text)y people, who had the curioſity to look into (illegible text) crater of the Monte Nuovo, rear Puzzuoli, a (illegible text)ays after its formation, in the year 1538. The (illegible text) of Auguſt, Sir William ſaw a ſudden exploſi(illegible text) ſmoke and aſhes thrown to an extreme height (illegible text)the great crater of Veſuvius, that must have
