On Volcanos ano: and Earthqua kes, 93 
_ Earthquake in Sicily, 1692. Schenchzer.. Phil. Tr. vol, 33. 
aint Just at the time of the second shock, the sea retired from the 
Jand, all along the coast, leaving its bottom dry fora considerable 
distance, and in a few minutes it returned again with great fury, 
and overflowed the shores. In many places the earth gaped pro- 
digiously......Out of all these openings sprung forth a great quan- 
es, stones and ash 
inguin in st 138 Calabrias, Messina, &c. 1783. By Sir Wm. 
milton. Phil. Tr. vol. 73. 
“ A shock had kas and agitated the sea so Ahir that the 
wave went furiously three miles inland, and swept off in its re- 
turn two thousand four hundred te iovete titan of the inhab- 
itants of Scilla, &c. 
the moment of the earthquake the river disappeared, and 
returning soon after, overflowed, &c. 
“6 The officer who commanded in the citadel (Messina) assured 
ae that on the fifth of February, and the three following days, 
sea, about a suarice ¥ #2 a mile frem that fortress, rose and 
boiled with a most horrid noise, &c : 
~The same. 1783. Count Francesco Ippolito. pe the Italian. 
<¢ Flames were seen to issue from the gr _&e. 
“ Out of many of these apertures a great quantity of water 
spouted during several a mi aay one of them, rape ‘a mile 
from the sea, there cam a large quantity of salt water. 
Warm — likewise hte: eee the apertures fio in the 
plain, & 
Molesce Islands. eg In a letter to Nicholas Wetsen, of Amster- 
ey Tr. toh ADE 2.3 
~*¢' The moun 2 (—— cast out so many stone, and some 
near six feet ry t 22 ne Y ecentiee, which has been forty or 
fifty fathoms deep, is not only filled up there, but become mae 
fathoms higher than the water.” 
Eruption of Mount mes Jone 18 “i hea Sir William Ham- 
os — 
The classical Pi of the gras of: er which 
destroyed Herculaneum and Pompei, mee y of the existing 
printed accounts of its great eruption in 1 631, might pass for an 
account of the late eruption, by only changing the date, and omit 
