. Letters from a young painter abroad to his friends in England : adorned with copper plates. ompanie an indubitable relation. There is one thing, of which not onely we, but all the Neapolitans canaflure the public, that before the laft eruption,the fouthern fummit, from whence the fire pro-ceeded, was much higher than it is at this was not onely higher, but it was likewife morefharply pointed -, and fo it appeared to thofe whoviewed it from within the city. The internal part of this top has alfo changedits difpofition: this we infer from the manner inwhich the fmoke is almoft continual
. Letters from a young painter abroad to his friends in England : adorned with copper plates. ompanie an indubitable relation. There is one thing, of which not onely we, but all the Neapolitans canaflure the public, that before the laft eruption,the fouthern fummit, from whence the fire pro-ceeded, was much higher than it is at this was not onely higher, but it was likewife morefharply pointed -, and fo it appeared to thofe whoviewed it from within the city. The internal part of this top has alfo changedits difpofition: this we infer from the manner inwhich the fmoke is almoft continually exhaling ;not united in one fingle cloud, as it was former-ly, becaufe it then proceeded out of one finglemouth. But now, as it proceeds out of five orfix mouths, at fome diftance from one another, itforms five or fix pillars : which appear verydiftincl: before fun-rifing, when the air is pure andcalm: and if it fometimes get fo together, as ifit fpouted out of the fame vent, it is, when theevaporation becomes very copious, or elfe whenthe wind blows very brifkly. The S?&ss T Vol-I. ttJSZATH. CASTZETOIT &yr/&f &^^ruMA^m^n^/. LETTER XXVtL H5 The circumference of Vefuvius, in its loweftand utmoft extent, contains a compafs of aboutforty Italian miles: but taken higher tip, whereit fenfibly appears to every one to rife above theplain, the circuit is not more than thirty.—Theheight of the northern fummit, meafured upon thelevel of thefea, is about feven hundred and twentyNeapolitan * canes ; that of the fouthern fummit, not above fix hundred fourfcore and fix. The new crack, which was opened on the talus ofthe fouthern fummit, and from which the great-eft torrent was difcharged, is five hundred fiftytwo canes above the fea.—The diflance betweenthe points of the two fummits is about three hun-dred and forty; and between their feet, in theplace where the fork begins, commonly calledAtrio9 one hundred and fifty. The mouth or bafon, which is in the fouthernfummit, is almoft perf
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