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(18) Naples with immediate deſtruction, hav at one time been bent over the city, and appeari to be much too maſive and ponderous to rem long ſuſpended in the air; it was, beſides, rep with the ferilli, or volcanic lightning, which ſtonger than common lightning.

Veſuvius was at this time completely covered, were all the old black lavas, with a thick coat  thoſe fine light grey aſhes already fallen, which ga it a cold and horrid appearance; and in compariſ of the abovementioned enormous maſs of lou which certainly, however it may contradict our id of the extenſion of our atmoſphere, roſe many m above the mountain, it appeared like a moleh although the perpendicular height of Veſuvius from the level of the ſea, is more than three thouſand ſix hundered feet. The abbe Braccini, as appears in his printed account of the eruption Mount Veſuvius in 1631, meaſured with a quadra the elevation of a maſs of clouds of the ſame natur which was formed over Veſuvius during that gre eruption, and found it to exceed thirty miles  height. Dr Scotti, in his printed account of the eruprion, ſays, that the height of this threaning cloud of ſmoke and aſhes, meaſured froNaples, was found to be of an elevation of thir degrees.

The ſtorms of thunder and lightning, attend at times with heavy falls of rain and aſhes, cauſin the moſt deſtructive torrents of water and glutino mud, mixed with huge ſtones, and trees torn up the roots, continued more or leſs to afflict the inhabitants on both sides of the volcano until the 7th  when the laſt torrent deſtroyed many hu of cultivated land, between the towns Torre del Greco and Torre dell' Annunziata. S torrents, both on the ſeaside and the S