Full text: Vasi, Mariano: A new picture of Naples and its environs

ENVIRONS OF NAPLES. 
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is consumed; but it rarely occurs that houses, 
or other buildings, are destroyed by the pro¬ 
gress of the lava. The lava preserves its 
interior heat a very long time, and as it cools, 
it becomes as we mentioned before, as hard 
as stone, and assumes a brown colour inter¬ 
mixed with red and blue spots. It is used for 
paving the streets in Naples, and the neigh¬ 
bouring towns, and when it is properly 
polished it becomes so glossy, that it is manu 
factured into tables, and snuff boxes, and 
even into rings and ear-rings. 
The ashes of Vesuvius are nearly of the 
same nature as the lava. The force with 
which they issue from the crater, impels them 
to a considerable height, and sustains them a 
long time in the air. The wind sometimes 
carries them to an astonishing distance. The 
ancient writers assert, that during the erup¬ 
tion in the year 79, the ashes from Vesu¬ 
vius extended to Egypt and Syria, that they 
reached Constantinople in 472, Apulia and 
Calabria in 1139 ; and if they are to be
	        
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