DOMAIN XII. VOLCANIC. 



going to examine it. Many parts of it were still 



burning. It was a shapeless mass of baked sub- 



stances, amalgamated by a lava, which, Father 



Goree says, appeared to the eye like the crumb of 



fine bread. But the very next day the inquirers 



were compelled to relinquish this hasty curiosity, 



and betake themselves to flight. They felt the 



new soil moving : it rose in some parts and sunk 



in others. The earth, sea, and sky, soon resumed 



their formidable appearance. The symptoms ap- 



peared even to spread wider and to threaten worse. 



The boiling sea several times changed colour : 



flames, following one another without intermission, 



issued as from a vast furnace, but accompanied 



with ashes and pumice. The frightful noise of 



subterranean thunders was heard. It seemed as 



if enormous rocks, darting from the bottom of the 



abyss, beat against the vaults above it, and were 



alternately repelled and thrown up again : the re- 



petition of their blows was distinctly heard. Some 



f them, making or finding a passage, were seen 



lying up red-hot into the air, and again falling 



nto the sea whence they had just been ejected. 



Vlasses were produced, held together for some 



days, and then disappeared. In this general dis- 



>rder large portions of the Little Kamenoi were 



wallowed up. Meanwhile the labour of the vol- 



ano took a larger surface, its ejections became 



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