DOMAIN XII. VOLCANIC. 



abstract, after I have taken notice of the eight 

 known eruptions which were prior to it. 



" They are all interesting to a laudable curiosi- 

 ty, and proper to throw light on this operation of 

 nature ; but as the circumstances of this grand 

 phenomenon are nearly always alike, I shall do 

 little more than date the former eruptions, reserv- 

 ing for the account of the last the most remark- 

 able particulars which generally attended the 

 eruptions. 



others. " j n the fourth year of the 135th Olympiad, 

 that is to say, in the year 236 before Christ, the 

 island of Therasia rose in the midst of fire out of 

 the sea : it is separated from Santorin by a strait 

 of a mile and a half in breadth. 



" A hundred and thirty years after, the island of 

 Automate, which having been consecrated to 

 Vulcan, was afterwards more known by the name 

 of Hiera, or the Consecrated, rose near it. 



" After another lapse of a hundred and ten 

 years, in the like manner was formed a third 

 island, called Thia, at two stadia, or two hundred 

 and fifty paces, from Hiera. 



" These three eruptions are recorded by Pliny, 

 in the place before cited ; by Strabo, lib. 1 ; and 

 by Seneca, in his Naturales Qua3Stiones, lib. 6, 

 cap. 2L 



