Sketches of Vesuvius, with short accounts of its principal eruptions. From the commencement of the Christian era to the present time / by John Auldjo.

  • Auldjo, John, 1805-1886.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Sketches of Vesuvius, with short accounts of its principal eruptions. From the commencement of the Christian era to the present time / by John Auldjo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the accompanying sketch; which though the most picturesque is not the highest part of the line of precipices that compose the right hank of the Fosso, throughout its whole length. The path leads, next, to a very steep ascent over the hard surface of an old stream of lava; a few minutes suffice to climb it — when the view suddenly opens ; the whole plain of the Ginestre appears, with the black cone rising at its further end; and the eye which, not many moments before, dwelt with interest on the ef- fect of ancient eruptions, now regards with astonishment, the work of desolation, produced by those of recent occurrence. The route here unites with the common one; quits the lava and ascends towards the Her- mitage, through a winding cleft in the mass of lapillo, of which the ridge of the Canteroni is principally formed. Before arriving at the upper part of it, we have a magnificent prospect which extends over the great and richly wooded plain of the Gampo Felice > stretching one way as far as to the sea, and another to the chain of the Appenines behind Caserta. The Hermitage of San Salvatore ( S\ Janua- rius; ) is situated on a small, flat space at the western extremity of the ridge of the Canteroni; I have in vain endeavoured to ascertain at what