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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Near Salerno, Italy, a column of fire surrounded by mist suddenly arose from the middle of the River Mojuri with a loud cannon-like noise, then disappeared, causing the river waters to drain into an abyss. Speculated to be linked to subterranean fire from Mount Vesuvius.
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To account for this extraordinary event will afford room for much philosophic speculation; but the most simple and probable conjecture is, that a subterraneous fire, communicating with mount Vesuvius, escaped through an aperture it had made in the bed of the river.
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Province Of Salerno
Event Date
Lately
Outcome
waters precipitated into an abyss
Event Details
A large column of fire surrounded by thick mist suddenly arose in the middle of the river Mojuri with a dreadful noise resembling cannon fire; the fire disappeared instantly, and the waters drained into an abyss. Conjectured to be a subterraneous fire from Mount Vesuvius escaping through the river bed.