New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-08-12
VOL. gEa. NO. lO7.

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also started with bride, but [ told HIM to throw
it away, as I could take care OF myself. hal
way I'D we came upon snow-oafih' on winch
cooled my parched lips Again and again VIC
we were compelled to rest, but without regret
for whenever we turned our eyes below they were
met by one of the most magnificent prospects
the sun ever slonc upon. There was the bay Of
Naples. the islands of Capri and Ischia, beyond
which the blue Mediterranean melted away into
the mild horizon; nearer slept the city, with It's
palaces and towers while far away inland, on,
on, till the eve grew dim with the extended pros
pect, swept away the whole campagna fcllcc, or
happy country, ina glorious panorama of villa
ges, villas, fields and vineyards. Around me
was piled lava that had once poured in rcd-hot
stream where sat; close beneath me an nm
mcnsc cavity, where Il volcano had once ragged
and died. When near the top, as stood looking
off on the world below, dense cloud of mist
borne by the wind, swept over and around me-
blot,ing out in an instant every thing from my
sight. A cold breeze accompanied 1t, and The
sudden change from broad sunlight and an almost
boundless prospect to sudden twilight and few
feet of broken lava, was so chilling and gloomy,
that it for moment >dampcd my ardor Our
guide however told us it would soon pass 50 we
rallied our spirits and pressed or. When we
reached the summit, prospect more dreary than
| had ever before imagined presented itself 4
barren field of stones and ashes and ragged
peaks across which fragments OF. mist were pass
Ing with the speed and nosclessncss of spirits,
lay before us. Holes appeared at intervals, from
which the hot steam Of the burning world below
was issuing.
At length VIC reached tic verge Of the crater,
and the immense basin with It's black, smoking
cone in the centre, was below us. From the red
hot mouth boiled out fast and fierce, an immense
column of smoke, accompanied sat intervals with
heavy sound and Jets of red-hot scoria. was
disappointed | expected to sec only a crater
and smouldering heap. But themountain was
in more than common agitation, and had been
throughout the winter. 1t seemed to sympathisc
with Etna and other volcanoes that appear 10
have chosen this year for general waking up
Every one has been anticipating an eruption, and
think there will be one ] could compare 1t TO no.
thing but the working Of an immense steam en-
gnc 1t had steady sound like the working of
a heavy piston while at short intervals the valve
seemed to lift and the steam escape with AN ex
plosyc sound, and at the same time the black
smoke and lurid blaze would shoot from the
mouth, and the rcd-hot scoria rise ~ or 5O feet
into the air. At the moment OF explosion, the
mouth of the conc seemed in blaze, and the
masses of scoria thrown out, some OF which
would weigh three or four pounds, resembed
huge gouts of bood-thcy were of that deep red'
flesh color. | deemed myself fortunate IN the
time ! visited it, for | saw a reat, hr1ng--or as
CARLYLE would saw an authenticated Volcano
There was a truth and reality and power about
it, that chained and awed me. | could count
the strokes of that tremendous engine as 1t thun-
dered on in the bowels of the earth, and sec the
fruits of its internal labor as it hurled them INTO
the upper air if as on purpose TO startlc man
with the preparations that were going on under
him. That mountain, huge as it was, seemed
light to the power that was under 1t, and
thought it felt unsteady on It's base, as II con-
scovs OF the strength Of its foes. But the udl
crous is always mingled with the sublime
AS sat on the edge of the crater, awed by
the spectacle before me- our guide approached
with some catables, and two eggs that had been
cooked in the steam issuing from one of the APP
crtures we had passcG. My friend sat down very
deliberately to cat his. took mine in my hand
mechanically, but was too much absorbed III the
actions of the sullcn monster below me to cat
Suddenly there was an explosion louder than any
that had preceded it, hurting larger, angrler
mass into the air. My hand nvoluntarily closed
tightly over the egg, and | was recalled to my
senses by my friend calling out very deliberately
at my feet to know what | was doing. | looked
down, and he sat quietly picking the shell from
his egg, while mine was running miniature
volcanoc over his back and shoulders. | opened
my hand, and there lay the crushed shell, while
the contents were fast spreading over my friends
broadcloth. l laughed outright, sacrilcgious as
it was. So much you sec for the Imagination
YOU have so often scolded me about. had lost
my egg, while my friend, who took things more
coolly enjoyed not only the eating OF his, but the
consciousness of having eaten an egg boiled IN
the steam of Vcsuvius. But it is mt the first
time have experienced the evils of too cxcltabe
Il nature. Remainder of this Letter on Monday
CAMP MEETING.-There will be Camp
~ Meeting the old ground a. J3mesGor on n Long