332 Notice of Sketches of Naval Life. 
diameter, and then suddenly narrowing into the diameter of ar 
inch, anda half pass thus to the height of seven or eight inches . 
their shape is, consequently, much like that of a candlestick. 
ut I have several of other forms, running through a considera- 
ble variety; and among them, a set of patere found together, 
consisting of three dishes, very much like those brought on our 
tabies with sweetmeats. The glass is, sometimes, like the com- 
mon glass of our country; and in this case, the vessels are very 
thin. Others are thick, and composed of a curious matter it 
has a pearly lustre, and in every position, presents beautiful 
green and purple hues, on the surface. This last has suffered 
from the e damps, and the exterior scales off; the lustre I spoke 
of, however, is in the glass, with ehiek some metal appears to 
have been fused ; it is very brittle. 
* Some of the Commodore’s men cate been digging here; but 
have found only an earthen jar, containing the bones of a child.” 
ol. 0. 
Milo contains interesting minerals. 
“ Tournefort calls it a natural laboratory : and i In 
man y places chemical operations are still going on; in mall Aiton 
their results are deposited in the ange abundance ; the com- 
‘mon rock of the island is a tufa: way up to Castro leads 
over hills of baked and whitened a> filled with round masses 
of obsidian: but the most interesting parts of the island, are on 
the South and South Western sides. In the latter is a place 
cailed Calamo, which we visited yesterday. They first took us 
to a bill of considerable elevation : its summit was covered with 
burnt rocks, of ragged surface, tossed confusedly on one another: 
among them are crevices, through which hot sulphurous vapors 
end, and deposite round, large quantities of crystallized or 
sublimated sulphur. Proceeding South from this, three fourths 
of a mile, you com e to the locality of the plumous or feathered 
alum: it is in a cave, on the sea shore: above it is a steep hill, 
_— — gies red, and sae =< of —— The 
compact, but not frm mass: sprinkle this with handsome green 
and yellow colors, and you have an idea of the cave as it ap- 
‘Otel 
_* By permission of the Ongena we insert, on the-opposite page the wood 
cut of | lachrymatorie je 
