THE 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE. 



MARCH 1799. 



T. Account of a remarkable Fiery Eruption from the Earth, 

 in Iceland, in the Year 1783. By S. M. Holm, S.S. 

 Theol. Cand. 



JL II E following account is taken from a fmall work 

 written by Mr. Holm, a clergyman, and publifhed in the 

 Danifh language at Copenhagen, with two charts. The 

 author fays, in his preface, that he was born in the ifland 

 in the year 1750, and lived there till the year 1774; that 

 he had himfclf feen all the places mentioned in it, and had 

 fince kept up an uninterrupted epittolary correfpondence 

 with his countrymen, from whom he received the particu- 

 lars of the devaltation occafioned by this Angular difafter. 



On the 1 ft of June 1783, feveral violent fliocks of an 

 earthquake were felt in various parts of Iceland ; and thefe 

 mocks afterwards increafed to fuch a degree, that, on the 

 nth of the fame month, the inhabitants wee obliged to 

 defcrt their habitations and to live in the open air. About 

 the lame time fmokc and vapour were feen to rife alternately 

 from the earth in the wild diftricls towards the north, in 

 the neighbourhood of Sidu, Landbrot, Medalland and 

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