We are indebted to a gentleman now in Naples for the following deeply interesting account of the present eruption of Vesuvius ... the circle around the great crater. The red-hot stones, which ...

The entire countryside surrounding Vesuvius was covered by foot upon foot of this powder, 65 feet (20 meters) deep at a distance of three miles (five kilometers) from the crater to about ten ...

For the last two years, Vesuvius has been unusually quiet ... it fairly set in. From the crater formed by the eruption of 1794, which is two miles in circumference, clouds of smoke began to ...