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Show VESUVIUS. It is thought that a crisis in the history of the mountain is approaching; either there will be a great discharge, such as will terrify the neighborhood, or, as is more likely, there will be an overflowing of lava, covering the cone with a mantle of fire, and silently inflicting more destruction on property than a grand eruption. Vesuvius has been in an active state now for several years, and Professor Palermi has from the first prophesied that the eruption would consist in the overflowing of lava. |