220 Consequences of the Deluge.

and on the other side were carried as far iS .Rome, where they darkned the very Air» arlintercepted the Sun-beams. At which, by the fury of this burning and temp^ ’the whole Mountain and Earth thereabo 11 ,was so (haken,that two adjoyning Cities B e J'culanium and Pompeii, were destroyedthe People fitting in the Theater. And t"famous Natural Historian Pliny the Eld^then Admiral of the Roman Navy, out of .curiosity of searching out the Causes fl[1Nature of the Deflagration approaching t0 °near the Mountain, and staying too 1°^there, was suffocated with the sulphuredsmoke and stench thereof.

Of another eruption of the same Vest vi 'us we read, in the time of Leo the Empero^’wherein the Allies thereof transported in tj JAir obscured all Europe, being carried as $as Constantinople ; and that the ConstantWpolitans being wonderfully affrighted the**'with ( insomuch as the Emperour torsosthe City) in memory of the fame, didly celebrate the Twelfth of Hovemher. ,a.They also pour out hugeFloodsof inel^Minerals, Stones, and other Materials,ning down like stivers for many Miles tog 1 ;ther ; as did the Mountain Ætna in thatand most famous Eructation,disgorging' " " ' tret,

mighty streams of fiery running matter,