528 DOMAIN XII. VOLCANIC, 



stances attending the last mentioned, are reported 

 in the third volume of the Memoirs of the Aca- 

 demy of inscriptions, and in those of the Academy 

 of Sciences, of the year 1708.* 



Of 1767. The eruption of 1767 took place between the 

 Little Kamenoi, and the "island of Hiera. It 

 began in the month of June. The earth, after 

 being shaken violently for some days by the action 

 of fire, raised the sea in such a manner as to oc- 

 casion a dread of its swallowing up all the islands 

 thereabout. A thick black smoke darkened the 

 air, and infected it with so strong a stench of sul- 

 phur, that many persons and animals were suffo- 

 cated by it. Black ashes, resembling gunpowder, 

 fell all round. Torrents of flame, issuing from 

 the sea, and waving on it to the height of several 

 feet, lighted at intervals this horrible scene. The 

 frightful mixture of different sounds, produced by 

 all the elements in fury, fro^e every heart with a 

 dread of the horrors which every instant might be 

 the result of their conflict. 



" At length, after a labour often or twelve days, 

 Nature paused, and the effect of her agitation was 

 discovered in a new island, which had risen near 

 the Little Kamenoi. There was no time lost in 



* An abstract of these remarkable phenomepa shall presently be 

 given. P. 



