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under their feet, upon which they ran with preci- 

 pitation to their boats. With these motions and 

 tremblings the island increased, not only in height, 

 but in length and breadth ; yet sometimes while it 

 was raised and extended on one side, it sunk and 

 diminished on the other. Our author observed a 

 rock to rise out of the sea, forty or fifty paces 

 from the island, which, having continued four days, 

 sunk, and appeared no more; but several others 

 appeared and disappeared alternately, till at last 

 they remained fixed and unmoved. In the mean 

 time the colour of the surrounding sea was 

 changed: at first it was of a light green, then 

 reddish, and afterwards of a pale yellow, accom- 

 panied with a noisome stench, which spread itself 

 over part of Santorini. 



" On the 16th of July the smoke first appeared, 

 not indeed from the island, but from a ridge of 

 black stones which suddenly rose about sixty paces 

 from it, where the depth of the sea was unfathom- 

 able. Thus there were two separate islands, one 

 called the White, and the other the Black Island, 

 from their different appearances. This thick 

 smoke was of a whitish colour, like that of a 

 lime-kiln, and was carried by the wind to Santo- 

 rini, where it penetrated the houses of the inha- 

 bitants. 

 .." In the night between the 19th and 20th oi 



