X, Extract of a letter from Mr. Robert Mackinlay, to the Right Hon. the Earl of Morton, F. R. S. dated at Rome, the 9th January 1761. concerning the late eruption of mount vesuvius, and the discovery of an antient statue of Venus at Rome

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There has been a most terrible eruption lately of mount vesuvius, about the latter end of last month, but the accounts hitherto arrived are not very distinct: however, they all agree, that there were nine new mouths, or openings, towards the Torre del Greco and Annonciada: that very considerable shocks of an earthquake were felt all over Naples: that neither fire nor smoke came, out of the old crater; that the lava had run into the sea: and that beyond Portici, upon the high-road, the lava was in height seventeen palms, and some of the sreams four hundred yards broad.