Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-30
-, TRICKS OF vEsqyIUs.
,-.,,,asV Volcano Not Altogether
ln0 Useless.

t,,Y3us Volcano Not Altogether
lDe Useless.
.-,o. often that VesuVius plays us
re smoke of Y esuvius Is our oaro-
~ Ift3e vapor OF the crater points
ls'.-' .rd we knew the wind is from the
'1.- ord we may expect fine weather.
VINE wind points noTtnWafo We Sn tho
TIA. Iu9 noan from the Lyblan Desert,and
Mel 'ls.l s1Iitn wind generally means Dig
taal 'l rain. 1t the smoke IS black,
4 waves A., loo, for some volcanic pheno-
W "-0 ,5 n in the daytime, we see the
penn ,af yapor ascend to an eXtraor-
colu U,i,bt we know that some great
GlA'l3 .4a,i0n il going on in the interior OF
n ltI 'I.arsr and we may expect me
Tue t-ll"rnic display when night falls over
tue sgeHf' 20 happened, writes a cores
N9"'' of the American Register, that L
poHU Ssi.,,r,jng from BaIa-from an eXcur-
was .e',rb-cn | was invited by Mr.. ID. l..
si'I ~ %ew YOrk-and | was surprised
(."ttF confidence of the cloud, or COL
ny .N +1at nushed up from Vesuvlus. In
llll Ming '--''i from Mr.. Clapp's room in
y HAIL Yesuve, l had seen that col
.lg If white vapor lift itself IN lofty pro-
u--.' above the crater, ascending not
,s. toan 600 feet above the leVel OF Tue
sso Both in the morning ana IN Tue
narno0n this extraordinary appearance
"l'-,.- ,ha cone of YesuViu5 made me De-
S,, +1at we should have line pyro-
S,',lr display in the evening. MIR. Clapp
.'."syf morning Wednesday, June 800.
sod uubelef in my prophetic
-. as Nesuvlus had not manifested a
,n,rL ofvolcauic pyrOtechny the evening
tFtra ON Wednesday afternoon went
3rivjrg with the same gentleman in the
vic;nify Of Capodim0nte. one of tue most
IasYt,fll enyirous OF Naples. and which,
ioa1liton to It's other attractions, gives
,'ra view Of Vesuyius. We again saw
'.s Iofty column of vapOr and the other
ir5iratj0ns ofinternal perturbation. The
m,ht. however, gave no manifestation
Gff ne fires OF NesuYius. But the next
morning The Neap0litan Journals told US
toat Tesuyius had manifested different
yolcs.ic phase, and the absence OF nre-
wor,s was easily explained. 1t appears
,bqt0n the day and night OF tuesday, June
w no less than $50 feet II the rlm OF the
crater-a line OtrOugh, cold, twisted lava
had fallen into the crater ltsell, nau
rhokpd lid for d time the source Of the
internal ire, but had permitted the egre5s
Of an unusual quantity OF vapor. This
accounted for the nOD-appearance OF the
brilliant display of fire which we have
J-e9 enjoying for several weeks past.
The fire was, however. again conquered,
md lava - now rolling out tow the
side OF Ottiauo; but it is not visible from
Naples. But what we do see, especially
in tue DAYTIME when the wind is blowing
from the west, is a great change in the
form CT the cone. This day last week it
was pointed. and, indeed, what We under
stand BIZ the word "cOuical." To-day it
Is Oluttr, and more than 100 feet lower,
and taere appears a small cOne-a nina
tIre smoking vOlcano-betweeu two
other points. which form sections OF the
old cone. The most imposing thing con-
nected WITH this change was the appear
arce Of the vast column Of white yapOr
which last Tuesday rose maiCstically to
The height of more than 1000 feet above
besIMmit Of the mountain, or, as | said
ne.Ore. al least s, 900 feet above the waves
t0at lave the western base OF Mount
YesuYlus. At present the volcano has
begun again its slow eFuptive state which
yuical0l0glsts call the "StrOm bOHan"
condition. and which is no disturbing
element in the busy life in the
many towns around its vast base line cir
Conference, or on the rich smiling vlne-
yaTus and fields that climb half way up
the mountain side.