y discovered ruins; one before the house that was the queen's,
of hot and salt water," &c.

So far Falconi: the other account is by Pietro Giacomo di Toledo, which
begins thus:--"It is now two years since this province of Campagna has
been afflicted with earthquakes, the country about Puzzuoli much more so
than any other parts; but the 27th and the 28th of the month of
September last, the earthquakes did not cease day or night in the town
of Puzzuoli: that plain which lies between Lake Avernus, the Monte
Barbaro, and the sea, was _raised a little_, and many cracks were made
in it, from some of which issued water; at the same time the sea,
immediately joining the plain, _dried up about two hundred paces_, so
that the fish were left on the sand a prey to the inhabitants of
Puzzuoli. At last, on the 29th of the same month, about two o'clock in
the night, the earth opened near the lake, and discovered a horrid
mouth, from which were vomited furiously smoke, fire, stones, and mud,
composed of ashes, making at the time of its opening a noise like the
loudest thunder. The stones which followed were by the flames converted
to pumice, and some of these were _larger than an ox_. The stones went
about as high as a cross-bow can carry, and then fell down, sometimes on
the edge, and sometimes into the mouth itself. The mud was of the color
of ashes, and at first very liquid, then by degrees less so, and in such
quantities, that in less than twelve hours, with the help of the
above-mentioned stones, a mountain was raised of 1000 paces in height.
Not only Puzzuoli and the neighboring country was full of this mud, but
the city of Naples also; so that many of its palaces were defaced by it.
Now this eruption lasted two nights and two days without intermission,
though, it is true, not always with the same force; the third day the
eruption ceased, and I went up with many people to the top of the new
hill, and saw down into its mouth, which was a round cavity about a
quarter of a mile in circumference, in the middle of which, the stones
which had fallen were boiling up, just as a caldron of water boils on
the fire. The fourth day it began to throw up again, and the seventh
much more, but still with less violence than the first night. At this
time many persons who were on the hill were knocked down by the stones
and killed, or smothered with the smoke. In the day the smoke still
continues, and you often see fire in the midst of it in the
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