Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . i*. What Virgil fays of Mount iEtna, • does fo exactly defcribe this, that nothing can be more clofe Jf *x:l8-and lively. Interdumque air am prorumpit adeethera nubem, Turbine fumantempiceo, & candente favilld : Attollitque globos jlammarum, &Jidera lambit. Interdum fcopulos, avulfaque vifcera montis Erigit eruSlam ; liqucfattaque faxa fub auras Cum gemitu glomerat, fundoque exajluat itno. Mn. 3. By turns a pitchy cloud (he rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . i*. What Virgil fays of Mount iEtna, • does fo exactly defcribe this, that nothing can be more clofe Jf *x:l8-and lively. Interdumque air am prorumpit adeethera nubem, Turbine fumantempiceo, & candente favilld : Attollitque globos jlammarum, &Jidera lambit. Interdum fcopulos, avulfaque vifcera montis Erigit eruSlam ; liqucfattaque faxa fub auras Cum gemitu glomerat, fundoque exajluat itno. Mn. 3. By turns a pitchy cloud (he rolls on high, By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the fky. Oft from her bowels mafly rocks are thrown, And fhiverd by the force, come piece-meal down : Oft liquid lakes of burning fulphur flow, Fed from the fiery fprings that boil below. Dryden. When we had obfervd this extraordinary fight a while, wethought itbeft for our curiofity to give way to our fafetyjfor I think we might have been at lean: as fecure in a befiegdcitadel. Pliny had paid dear for his curiofity at a much greater Z 2 diftance. !. 172 VESUVIUS. diilance. Therefore emlca dim licet, was good warning ;but v. hen we were determined to comply with it, we were put Ail. to a ftand a while, by a thick cloud of fmoke that came andintercepted our fight of a ridge of rubbim we were to go- along in our return : but a favourable guft of wind came ina little time, and cleard the way for us. We were not longin laying hold of the opportunity : we hobbled down the firftdefcent as fait as we conld, and got to the plain above-men-tiond; where we exarnind the bits of wood we had put fome cracks and chinks there, and found them half our defcent was as eafy, as our afcent was difficult, byanother way our guide led us to, a perfect rivulet of fandand afhes, and pulverizd cinders, that ran down along withus : all our care now was to flacken our motion as much aspoflible, for we were perfectly carried away with the ft
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