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little country house belonging to the King, and descended towards Resina. After hav- ing damaged a considerable deal of land, it                   stopped at a spot called Il Monte. "The second came out at the same time,                   and from the same mouth as the first; it was                    about two miles broad, and descended towards                    the village called Bosco di tre Case; but as                    it run over former lava, it did no injury.                      "The third proceeded from a mouth that opened during this eruption low down the sides of the volcano: it ran towards the place called Il Monte, but it also flowing over old lava, did no injury. The second and third stopped nearly in the same place. "The fourth and last descended from an                   old mouth called Vulcano, on the south                    side; reaching Pedementina, it joined itself                    with a smaller stream of lava; thence it ran                    on over old lava as far as the hollow called                    Atrio del Cavallo. It seemed to menace La                    Torre del Greco.                      "It has been observed that the volcanic matter, not lava, thrown out by Vesuvius this time, taken in mass, is much more consider- able than the lava itself. "The damage done by the eruption is not                   so considerable as the dreadful and menacing                    appearances of the mountains would have in-                    duced me to imagine. Portici and the Torre                    del Greco have suffered no other inconvenience