A Description of the First Discoveries of the Antient City of Heraclea Found Ne
A Description of the First Discoveries of the Antient City of Heraclea Found Ne
Niccol Marcello Venuti
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Strabo fays % that the Places about Vefuvius arc tery fertile, except thofe near the Opening, which are quite barren, and look covered with Allies ; where they perceived Caverns of Stone of the fame Colour, as tho' they had been burnt and calcined 3 Memoires de Litterature, torn. Icj. Des Embrafemens du Mont. Vefuve. ^ De lucendiU Montis Vefuvii, « Strabone lib, s. Pag. 247. By A?itient city of ¥L^K kChE ^. 35 jby Fire, from which one may imagine that they were ibmetimes fired by a Volcano, whi...ch defilled, when all the combuftible Matter was jpent. So Strabo, who was an excellent Writer a long Time before the Reign of Titus, pofitively aflerts, that there was a Volcano on the Top of Vefuvius, but did not know when it was made •, Diodorus Sicu- lus ^ nightly mentions a former Eruption, but does not give any particular Account of it. Pltny, to whom this EruptioA was fo fatal, men- tions in two Places the Mountain Vefuvius : Of its Situation ^ ; and in L. 14. Treating about the Wines, he fays, ex Us minor Aiijiro l^editur^ ceteris ventis alitur^ ut in Vefwvio Monte^ Surrentinifque col- lihtis : Which fhews, that he knew nothing, either of the Volcano, in this Mountain, or of the ful- phureous Quality of the Earth, otherwife he would (as Strabo does, } have attributed the Fruitfulnefs of the Vines to thofe Caufes ; for in the fame Book he mentions Mount Etna, No5fiirnis mirus incendi/s.
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