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another, for that the hote exhalations which engender 

 in the inner concavities of the earth , feeme to be the 

 material! fubftance of fire in the F0/<r^;,r,whereby there 

 kinalcth an other more grofle matter, and makes thefe 

 fhewes of flame and fmoke that come forth. And thefc 

 exhalations (finding no eafieiffiie in the earth)move it, 

 to iffte forth with great violence,wherby we heare that 

 horrible noife vnder the earth, and likewife the (baking 

 of the earth , being ftirred with this burning exhalati 

 on ^ Even as gunpowlder in mines,having fire put to it 

 breaks rockes and walks : and as the chefnut laid into 

 the lire, Icapes and breakes with a noyfe,whenas it cads 

 forth theaire (which is contained within the huskc)by 

 theforce of the fire:Even fo thefe Earthquakes do moft 

 commonly happen in places neere the water or fca . As 

 we fee in Europe, and at the/W/tf, thattownes and cit- 

 ties fartheft froai the fea and waters areleaft afflided 

 therewith andcontrariwife, thofe.that are featedvp- 

 on portes of the fea, vpon rivers, the lea coaft, and pla 

 ces neere vnto them, fccle mod this calamitie. There 

 hath happened in Pmi, (the which is wonderful!, and 

 worthy to be noted) Earthquakes which haverunne 

 from Cmlle vnte wtto , and that is above hundred 

 leagues, I fay the greateft that ever I heard fpeake of,for 

 Idler be more common there. Vpon the coaft vfchiUe 

 (I remember not well in what yeare) there was fo terri- 

 blean Earthquake, as it overturned whole mountains, 

 and thereby itopped th; j courfe of rivers which it con- 

 verted'into lakes, it beat downetownes, andflewa 

 great number of people, caufing the fea to leave hrr 

 place fome leagues , fo as the fhippes remained on drie 

 ground , farre from the ordinary roade, with many o- 

 thcrhcavie and horrible things, And as I well remem 

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