530 DOMAIN XII. VOLCANIC. 



prodigiously abundant, and a new island was .seen 

 forming. By successive additions, continued for 

 near four months, it made a junction with that 

 produced in June. It was named the Black 

 Island, from the colour of its soil. It is nearly 

 twice as large as the Little Kamenoi, and is sepa- 

 rated from it by a very narrow strait. The vol- 

 cano continued creating alarm till the end of May 

 in the following year ; frequently shaking the earth 

 and sea, and causing frightful noises. It even 

 opened again, but only for a moment, on the 15th 

 of April, and threw out a multitude of large burn- 

 ing rocks, which fell at the distance of two miles. 



" It is therefore proved by nine eruptions re- 

 corded in history, that there exists a maritime 

 volcano at Santorin. These eruptions have hap- 

 pened in the space of twenty-one centuries."* 



"But of the noted eruptions of 1707, a more mi- 

 nute and satisfactory account had before appeared 

 in another work. 



Eruptions of " Acroteri is an island famous in natural his- 

 tory, and is situated in latitude 36 north, longi- 

 tude 26 east ; it seems to be composed of pumice- 

 stone, encrusted with a surface of fertile earth, 

 and the ancients represent it as rising, in a violent 

 earthquake, out of the sea. Four other islands 



* Ord. 279. 



