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than that arising from some sharp showers of lapillo and ashes. Resina has had about twenty moggia of land covered.-- A moggia is a Neapolitan measure, equiva- lent to about four fifths of an English acre. From the Torre del Greco to the Torre del Annunciata, the road is now covered to the depth of two feet with lapillo and fine ashes. The Torre del Annunciata has suffered most; all its finely cultivated lands are covered with a very thick stratum of lapillo and ashes.-- Near Ottaiano, about forty or fifty moggia of wood were consumed. Yesterday, this part suffered greatly from a deluge of warm water, mixed with ashes. "A great number of labourers, aided by                      Austrian and Neapolitan soldiers, are em-                       ployed in clearing the roads. The heavy                       rains that are expected at this season will do                       much, but I fear that the country round the                       Torre del Annunciata will not be speedily                       restored to the industry of man.                         "The distance at which the fine ashes have fallen is astonishing; the master of an Eng- ish vessel, which came in last Saturday, gathered them on the deck the Wednesday evening preceding, when he was off the Tus- can coast, at least two hundred miles from Naples."

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