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waſhed off the volcanic matter, it ſcarcely weig(illegible text) three.
In the town of Somma, our author found (illegible text) churches and about ſeventy houſes without roofs, full of aſhes. The great damage on that ſide of (illegible text) mountain, by the fall of the aſhes and the torre(illegible text) happened on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of J(illegible text) and on the 12th of July. The 19th, the aſhes (illegible text) ſo thick at Somma, that unleſs a perſon kept in (illegible text)tion, he was ſoon fixed to the ground by th(illegible text) This fall of aſhes was accompanied alſo with (illegible text) reports, and frequent flaſhes of the volcanic (illegible text)ning, ſo that, ſurrounded by ſo many horrors, it (illegible text) impoſſible for the inhabitants to remain in the to(illegible text) and they all fled; the darkneſs was ſuch, althoug(illegible text) was mid-day, that even with the help of torch(illegible text) was ſcarcely poſſible to keep in the high road.(illegible text) the 16th of July, ſignor Guiſeppe Succo went u(illegible text) the crater, and, according to his account, which (illegible text) been printed at Naples, the craters of an irreg(illegible text) oval form, and as he ſuppoſes (not having been (illegible text) to meaſure it) of about a mile and a half in circ(illegible text)ference; the inſide, as uſual, in the ſhape of a (illegible text)verted cone, the inner walls of which on the ea(illegible text) ſide are perpendicular; but on the weſtern ſide (illegible text) the crater, which is much lower, the deſent was (illegible text)ticable, and S(illegible text)o with ſome of his companions (illegible text)tually went down one hundred and ſeventy-ſix pa(illegible text) from which ſpot, having lowered a cord with a (illegible text) tied to it, they found the whole depth of the (illegible text) to be about five hundred palms. But ſuch obſ(illegible text)tions on the crater of Veſuvius are of little c(illegible text)quence, as both its form and apparent depth (illegible text)ſubject to great alterations from day to day.
Greg. Econ. of Nature,
Vol. 2nd page 331.—
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