Htflorie of the fndics .lib. 



Inlikeforte there are places that have the propertie to 

 dra\v vnto them hote cxhalations,and to convert them 

 into fire and fmoake which by their force and violence 

 cart out other thicke matter which diffblves into allies, 

 into pumice (lone, or fuch like fubftance : and fora fuf- 

 ficient argument to proove it to be fo in thcfc PolunsJ 

 they fomctimes caft fmoke,and not alvvayes.and fome- 

 times fire, and not alwayes, which is according to that 

 it can drawe vnto it, and digeft,as the fountaines which 

 in winter abound, and in fummer decreafe ; yeafome 

 are qsite dried vp , according to the force and vigour 

 they have,and the matter that is prefented : even foit is 

 of thefe /^/ta#j,whichcaftfire more or kffe atcertaine 

 feafbns. Others fay, that it is hell fire 5 which ifTueth- 

 there, to ferve as a warning , thereby to confider what 

 is in the other life : but it hell (as Divines holde) be in 

 the centre of the earth, the which containes in diame 

 ter above two thou&nd leagues, we can not iudge that 

 this fire is from the centre- for that hell fire (as laint Ba- 

 Jil and others teach ) is very different from this which 

 wee fee, for that it is without light , and burneth with- ^ 

 out comparifbn much more then ours. And therefore 

 I conclude, that what I have faide, feemes to me more 

 r-eafonable. 



Of Earthquakes. CHAP. 26. 



COme havehcld,that from thefe Folcans which are at 

 ^the Indies, the earthquakes proceed ? being very com 

 mon there : but for that they ordinarily chance in pla 

 ces farre from thofePWhtftfj it can not be the totall 

 caufe. It is true they have a certainefimpathy one-with 



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