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22 deſtroyed any one in half a mile of it; and on the 19th of July a party not only had viſited crater, but had deſcended 170 feet within it. W they were on the mountain, two whirlwinds, actly like thoſe that form water-ſpouts at ſea, m their appearance and one of them, which was near, made a ſtrange ruſhing noiſe, and havinken up a great quantity of the fine aſhes, for them into an elevated ſpiral column, which, w whirling motion and great rapidity, was ca towards the mountain of Somma, where it b and was diſperſed. One of our author's ſerv employed in collecting of ſulphur, or ſal ammac, which cryſtalizies near the fumaroli, as the called (and which are the ſpots whence the hot pour iſſues out of the freſh lava) found to his g ſurprize, an exceeding cold wind iſſue from a f very near the hot fumaroli upon his leg. In a yard not in the ſame line with the new-fo mountains juſt deſcribed, but in a right line  them, at the diſtance of little more than a  from Torre del Greco, they found three or more of theſe new-formed mountains with cra out of which the lava flowed, and by uniting the ſtreams that came from the higher mouths, adding to their heat and fluidity, enabled the w current to make ſo rapid a progreſs over the fortunate town, as ſcarcely to allow its inhabit ſufficient time to eſcape with their lives. The vineyards belonging to the Torre del Greco, which produced the wine called Lacrima Ch that were buried and totally deſtroyed by this i conſiſted of more than three thouſand acres; the deſtruction of the vineyards by the torren mud and water, at the foot of the mountain of Sma, was much more extenſive.

In that part of the country, the firſt ſigns