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(illegible text) parading in the ſtreets, added to the horror (illegible text) the lava did not appear to have yet a ſufficient (illegible text)t and it was now evident that the earthquakes already felt had been occaſioned by the air and (illegible text)y matter confined within the bowels of the mountain, and probably at no ſmall depth (conſidering the extent of thoſe earthquakes) Sir William recommended so the company that was with (illegible text)n, who began to be much alarmed, rather to go view the mountain at ſome greater diſtance, and the open air, than to remain in the houſe, which was on the ſea ſide, and in the part of Naples that nearest and moſt expoſed to Veſuvius. They acdingly proceeded to Poſilipo, and viewed the conflagration, now become ſtill more conſiderable, from the ſea ſide under that mountain; but whether (illegible text)m the eruption having increaſed, or from the (illegible text)d reports of the volcanic exploſions being re(illegible text)ted by the mountain behind them, the noiſe was much louder, and more alarming than that they (illegible text)d heard in their firſt poſition, at leaſt a mile near (illegible text)o Veſuvius After ſome time, and which was (illegible text)ut two o'clock in the morning of the 16th, hav(illegible text) obſerved that the lavas ran in abundance, (illegible text)ly, and with great velocity, having made a considerable progreſs towards Refina, the town which (illegible text) firſt threatened, and that the fiery vapours which (illegible text)d been confined had now free vent through many (illegible text)ets of a crack of more than a mile and a half in (illegible text)gth, as was evident from the quantity of inflammable matter and black moke, which continued to (illegible text)e from the new mouths above mentioned, with(illegible text) any interruption, our author concluded that at (illegible text)ples all danger from earthquakes, which had (illegible text)n his greateſt apprehenſion, was totally removed, he returned to his former ſtation at St. Lucia Naples.
