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(illegible text)t that our author met with, was near the vil(illegible text)f the Madonna dell'Arco, and be paſſed ſeveral (illegible text) between that and the town of Ottai no; one (illegible text) Trochia, and two near the town of Somma, (illegible text) the moſt conſiderable, and not leſs than a (illegible text)er of a mile in breadth; and, according to the (illegible text)ony of eye witneſſes, when they poured down from the mountain of Somma, they were from (illegible text)y to thirty feet high; the matter of theſe tor(illegible text) was a liquid glutinous mud, compoſed of ſco(illegible text) aſhes, ſtones (ſome of an enormous ſize) mix(illegible text)ith trees that had been torn up by the roots. (illegible text) torrents, as it may well be imagined, were ir(illegible text)able, and carried off every thing before them; (illegible text)s, walls, trees, and not leſs than four thou(illegible text) ſheep and other cattle. At Somma, a team (illegible text)ht oxen, which were drawing a large timber (illegible text) were at once carried off, and never were heard (illegible text)re.
(illegible text)e appearance of theſe torrents was like that (illegible text) other torrents in mountainous countries, ex(illegible text)hat what had been mud was become a perfect (illegible text)nt, on which thing leſs than a pickaxe could (illegible text) any impreſſion. The vineyards and cultivated (illegible text)were here much more ruined; and the limbs (illegible text)e trees much more torn by the weight of the (illegible text), then thoſe which have been already deſcrib(illegible text)n the ſea ſide of the volcano.
(illegible text)e abbe Tata, in his printed account of this (illegible text)ion, has given a good idea of the abundance, great weight, and glutinous quality of theſe aſh(illegible text)hen he ſays, that having taken a branch from (illegible text) tree ſtill ſtanding near the town of Somma, on (illegible text) were only ſix leaves, and two little unripe figs, (illegible text)aving weighed it with the aſhes attached to it, (illegible text) and it to be thirty-one ounces; when having
