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VESUVIUS IN ACTIVITY.

Vesuvius is becoming more active than usual. Numerous convulsions in the interior resulted in the rending and then the collapse of the last new cone at the top of the mountain. We are so used to these changes at the extreme summit (says the Naples correspondent of the Daily News) that it is no new thing to see from Naples that the point of the active crater has fallen in, and the top of the mountain has been reduced to the flatter shape which is its normalform. On this occasion a stream of lava issued from the east side of the cone, and was thus invisible from Naples. It ran about one-third of the distance down the entiro mountain. In spite of telegraph and telephone, news from the mountain arrives so late in the city that the activity was past before we were aware of it Signor Scarfoglio, of the Corriere de Napoli, who repaired to Vesuvius on 4th May to see, at any rate, the changes wrought by the last eruption, even if he was too late to witness the new lava stream, writes: —"The mountain presented a most magnificent spectacle. A man who had been 011 the cone on the 3rd May said that he felt the vibration of the mountain so much that ho became sick, and he declares that the motion was accompanied by subterranean thunder. The lava and ashes which fell in obstructed the mouth of the crater, causing it to split at the base of tho latest cone on the eastern side. I walked along tho edge of this new opening, which is about GO feet wide and at least 1000 feet long, and descends in a straight line like a colossal ravine. Its depths are hidden by the sulphurous smoke which ascends from it. The lava has ran along this ravine for about a mile dividing it into two streams, one of wliich has already stopped, while the othor is flowin" on, a small column of smoke indicating; its course. It rolls in tho black bod of the old lava, towards San Giuseppe ; but this village is still 3 miles away from the fiery streams and is in no danger. All shocks of earthquake and explosive sounds have already ceased. Around tho broken crater the lava is split into laiger or smaller crevices, some almost too wide to leap over. Smoke issues from the crater in great abundance, but no more heated matter is being cast up, as the opening is closed by the debris. Who knows where the liquid lava within Vesuvius will find a new outlet ?" It would seem from this report that, even should the liquid within Vesuvius rush upward with such force as it did in 1572, the region towards and around Pompeii would be in most danger, while the thickly inhabited coast at Torre del Greco, Resin,i and Portiei would bo safe. No one can toll whothor this last overflow of lava will be tho conclusion of the phase of gentle activity of the last few months, or whether it will be be tho commencement of a still more energetic period.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

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VESUVIUS IN ACTIVITY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

VESUVIUS IN ACTIVITY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

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