Citation - Salem Gazette (Hall): 1782.02.14

SG(H.782.013
14 Feb 1782:41,42 (1/18)
An entertaining and instructive account of an eruption of
Mount Vesuvius, which happened in August, 1779, (continued
from our last.] . . . [1 column]
  All public diversions ceased in an instant, and the
theatres being shut, the doors of the churches were thrown
open. Numerous processions were formed in the streets, and
women and children with dishevelled heads filled the air
with their cries, . . .