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(9) parading in the ſtreets, added to the horror the lava did not appear to have yet a ſufficient t and it was now evident that the earthquakes already felt had been occaſioned by the air and 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 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 m the eruption having increaſed, or from the d reports of the volcanic exploſions being reted by the mountain behind them, the noiſe was much louder, and more alarming than that they d heard in their firſt poſition, at leaſt a mile near o Veſuvius After ſome time, and which was ut two o'clock in the morning of the 16th, hav obſerved that the lavas ran in abundance, ly, and with great velocity, having made a considerable progreſs towards Refina, the town which  firſt threatened, and that the fiery vapours which d been confined had now free vent through many ets of a crack of more than a mile and a half in gth, as was evident from the quantity of inflammable matter and black moke, which continued to e from the new mouths above mentioned, with any interruption, our author concluded that at ples all danger from earthquakes, which had n his greateſt apprehenſion, was totally removed,  he returned to his former ſtation at St. Lucia Naples.