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little country house belonging to the King,
and descended towards Resina. After hav-
ing damaged a considerable deal of land, it
stopped at a spot called Il Monte.
"The second came out at the same time,
and from the same mouth as the first; it was
about two miles broad, and descended towards
the village called Bosco di tre Case; but as
it run over former lava, it did no injury.
"The third proceeded from a mouth that
opened during this eruption low down the
sides of the volcano: it ran towards the place
called Il Monte, but it also flowing over old
lava, did no injury. The second and third
stopped nearly in the same place.
"The fourth and last descended from an
old mouth called Vulcano, on the south
side; reaching Pedementina, it joined itself
with a smaller stream of lava; thence it ran
on over old lava as far as the hollow called
Atrio del Cavallo. It seemed to menace La
Torre del Greco.
"It has been observed that the volcanic
matter, not lava, thrown out by Vesuvius this
time, taken in mass, is much more consider-
able than the lava itself.
"The damage done by the eruption is not
so considerable as the dreadful and menacing
appearances of the mountains would have in-
duced me to imagine. Portici and the Torre
del Greco have suffered no other inconvenience
