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continuing to increase in size. On the 4tb of July they 

 again visiteJ the volcano, and foun<) it perfectly quiet. They 

 went on shore on Sabrina Island (as ii is now called), and 

 found it very sleep; its height nui less than from 200 to 

 300 feet. It was with difficulty they were able to reach 

 the iop of the island; which ihey at last erTccted, in a quar- 

 ter svltere there was a genile declivity ; but the ground, or 

 rither the ashes, composed of sulphuieous matter, dross of 

 iron, 8cc. was so very hot for their feet, that they were 

 obliged soon to return. They, however, look possession of 

 the island, in the name of his Britannic Majesty, and left 

 an English union-jack flying on it. The circumference is 

 now from two to tliree miles. In the middle is a large basin 

 full of boiling-hot water, from which a stream runs mlo the 

 sea; and at the distance of 30 yards from the island, the 

 water, although 30 fathoms deep, is too hot for one to hold 

 his hand in. In short, the whole island is but a crater: 

 the cliff on the outside appearing as walls, as sleep within 

 as they are without. The basin of boiling waler is the 

 mouth, from which the smoke, &c. issued. When the 

 Sabrina left it, several parts of the cliff continued to smoke 

 a little; and it was their opinion that it would soon break 

 out again. — T presume yon are informed of this strange 

 phasnomenon before now : hoyvever, as I had the foregoing 

 account from a young gentleman belonging to the Sabrina, 

 who was an eye-wilness of what is related, I conceived it 

 likely to contain some particulars of which you have hitherto 

 been uninformed." 



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In page 208 of our present Number we have given some 

 interesting particulars respecting lord Elgin's discoveries 

 in Greece, and the rich treasure of ancient sculptures with 

 which his lordship has enriched this country. 



We have great pleasure in being able to add, that ac- 

 counts have been received from Mr. C R. Cockerell, at 

 Athens, of a recent discovery in the island of ^gina, 

 highly interesting to the Arts. In excavating the earth to 

 ascertain the Hyperihral in the ancient Temple of Jupiter 

 Panhellenius, in the pursuit of his architectural inquiries, 

 a great number of fragments of Parian marble of the most 

 beautiful sculpture have been raised, the parts of which 

 nearly complete 16 statues, between five and six feet in 

 height, many of them in powerful action, and described 

 as not inferior lO the celebrated sculptures of the Elgin col- 

 lection. It is remarkable, that of the travellers of all na- 

 tions who have visited that celebrated Temple for more than 



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