DOMAIN XII. VOLCANIC. 527 



" In the year 726, the volcano, after violent 

 ejections of ashes and red-hot rocks, disgorged a 

 great quantity of lava, which joined Thia to 

 Hiera. 



" In 1457, this island was still farther in- 

 creased, attended by the same circumstances. 

 This event, and the date of it, are attested by an 

 inscription on a marble stone erected near the gate 

 of Fort Scar us, in Santorin. 



" A sixth eruption, in 1570, produced a new 

 island : it is called the Little Kamenoi. 



" In 1650, the agitations of the volcano lasted 

 almost a twelvemonth. Its greatest convulsions 

 were at the beginning, from its opening on the 

 24th of September to the 9th of October. The 

 sea rose to the height of forty-five feet, and that to 

 such a distance, that some galleys of the Grand 

 Seignor's were wrecked in the port of Candia, 

 though it is more than eighty miles from Santorin. 

 Smyrna and Constantinople were incommoded 

 with the ashes which rushed out of the sea in 

 whirlwinds of flame. All the particulars of this 

 eruption are to be found in Kircher, a contempo- 

 rary author, after the account of the preceding. 



" This inexhaustible volcano again opened in Eruptions 

 1707. The Little Kamenoi was increased, and is 

 now more than three leagues in circumference. 



" Most of these eruptions, and all the circurn- 



