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At last he said to her, 'It is no use waiting on here I can find nothing; so I shall go down to Mascalucia, and perhaps there I shall be more lucky. So down he went to Mascalucia, and walked through the streets crying, 'Who wants some shoes? And very soon a window was pushed up, and a woman's head was thrust out of it. 'Here are a pair for you to patch, she said.
All this time the torrent of lava continued to descend, it destroying the town of Mascalucia on the 23d of March. On the same day the crater cast up great quantities of sand, ashes and scoriae, and formed above itself the great double-coned hill now called Monte Rossi, from the red color of the ashes of which it is mainly composed.
On the 25th very violent earthquakes occurred, and the cone above the great central crater was shaken down into the crater for the fifth time since the first century A. D. The original current of lava divided into three streams, one of which destroyed San Pietro, the second Camporotondo, and the third the lands about Mascalucia and afterward the village of Misterbianco.
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