Note 28 — LETTER V.
Reading edition
The Abate Giulio Cesare Bruccini describes very elegantly, in his account of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, his having made an observation of the like nature—his words are (after having particularized the different strata of erupted matter lying one over another)—"parendo appunto che la natura ci abbia voluto lasciare scritto in questa terra tutti gli incendii memorabili raccontati delli autori."