There are first-person accounts of this volcano's eruption in 1767 (as there had been in 79 A.D.)
[DOC] [TLE] Mount Vesuvius [PAR] Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in A.D. 79 that led to the destruction of the 
Roman cities of ... dangerous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 
3,000,000 people now living ...