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from the abyss opened during the preceding night. The side of the crater opposite to                    him, which rese considerably higher than that on which he stood, afforded a singular as- pect; for it was covered with little pillars of                    smoke, which burst forth from it, and had some resemblance to extinguished lights.-- The air over the crater was actually em- bodied, and was clearly to be seen in a tre. mulous motion. Below, it boiled and roared dreadfully, like the most violent hurricane; but occasionally a sudden deadly stillness en- sued for some moments, after which the roar- ing recommenced with double vehemence, and the smoke burst forth in thicker and blacker clouds. It was, he observes, as if the spirit of the mountain had suddenly tried to                    stop the gulf, while the flames indignantly refused to endure the confinement. It is remarkable that the great eruption of 1805 happened on the 12th of August, within a day of that of the preceding year.-- Subterraneous noises had been previously heard, and a general apprehension of some violent commotion prevailing, the inhabitants of Torre del Greco and Annunciata had left their homes, through the apprehension of a                    shower of fire and ashes, similar to that which buried Pompeii. The stream of lava took the same course with that of 1794, described above, one of the arms following the direction