Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-03-11

Brooks, of the New York Express, in late
letter from Naples, says:
have seen all ''the sights" of Naples that
one can sec in five hard working days-from
down under the earth, in the Grotto Of Pausa-
Iippo, and in the ovens of the Grotto del Cane,
where they half kill dogs, for show, in the car
bonic acid of gas, or to subterranean Hercula-
neum and urearthed Pompeii, and up to the very
crater of Vesuvius. Nothing is nsw but We
suvius, and Vesuvius is almost always new
Years ago. in fresher and foolisher days, went
far down into its hot crater, till the very shoes
were burnt beneath my feet-but now, the era
ter cannot be descended, unless some fool is
hardy enOughto buy rope and risk sufocatiOn
In the sulphur.
The crater of my earlier days is on more
The sand-like ashes then waddled up in. sink
ing to the knees at every step, no longer exist
in the present ascending place, for now footed
it upon the hard scoria-the cragged, ragged,
broken bits OF lava, that tear the shoe to pieces
and lacerate the hands, if you fall upon them
did not think the ascent on foot was very diff
cult now. Ladies are almost always carried up
if they 90 at ALL and the ascent for them, in their
dresses, must be very difficult and painful ; but
l saw one sturdy English girl, in proper habili-
ments, making the effort and succeeding well.
Out WIS lulcuuluR W IdNC I'll CNCLliLS VI bWl-
light view of the bay from the summit Few
but English women, trained in their hard climate
and in the open air, in all sorts Of weather,
have muscle and courage enough for such a
mount; but at nine at night, when | left the sea
of fyelthat is now rolling down the mountain
beyond the cone, the lady had not made her ap-
Pearanee
"See Naples and diel" was the enthusiastic
ejaculation Of some traveller, when excited and
overwhelmed by the beauty OF its Bay, and bur-
ming fires Of Vesuvius don't say all that,
but 1 do say the sea of fire l saw last night un-
der the cone of Vesuvius was worth a voyage
across the Atlantic. Imagine Niagara TO be on
fire, and the rolling, rushing cataract to be red
hot lava struggling, rolling-and you may be-
gin to have an idea of the spectacle now pre-
sented at night, as the streams of red leva come
down almost to your feet He who has been on
the mer de glacc, the sea of ice, in Alpine Swift
zerland, can have goood idea of the spectacle
Vesuvius now presents, if he will imagiD that
ice to be fire in notion and falling down the Al
pine hill. @
rode to it, jumped on it, where, free from
exposure to the air, it had become hard and safe;
looked at it again and again, and fingered over
it, under an excitement and enthusiasm refresh
ing to feel, when one has become biaSe at sight
seeing I think | could live there fer month,
in content, only upon the eggs could cook in
the ashes and fire of the crevices. The lava is
now all the time rolling down, and has lately
deluged an excellent carriage road, made by the
King to his Meteorological Observatory at the
Hermitage. A Ahalfdeluged house is now in the
ruins Whole fields of the vine, the Iderima
| Chrtsti (impious name for the wine) of the
mountain, have been destroyed. Within year
two currents of lava have swept by two sides of
the Mount of the Hermitage The Carmelite
friar must have hot place in his convent, and
the "observers" of the meteors must ever live in
fear of being hit by some of them