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customary the volcano began to eject inflam- ed substances from three new months, pretty near to each other, and about 650 feet from the summit. The lava took the direction of                 Torre del Greco and Aununciata, approach- ing Portici, on the road leading from Naples to Pompeii. Throughout the whole of the 2nd of Jane, a noise was heard, resembling that of two armies engaged, when the dis- charges of artillery and musketry are very brisk. The current of lava now resembled a                 wall of glass in a state of fusion, sparks and flashes issuing from it from time to time, with a powerful detonation. Vines, trees, houses, -- whatever objects, in short, it en- countered on its way, were instantly over- thrown or destroyed. In one part, where it                 met with the resistance of a wall, it formed a cascade of fire. In a few days, Portici, Re- sina, and Torre del Greco, were covered with ashes thrown out by the volcano; and, on the ninth, the two former places were deluged with a thick black ruin, consisting of a species of mud flled with sulphurous particles. On                 the 1st of July, the ancient crater had wholly disappeared, being filled with ashes and lava, and a new one was formed in the eastern part of the mountain, about 60 feet in depth, and having about the same width at the open- ing. Several persons, on the above day, de- scended about half way down this new mouth,