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ties of Fire, with a noife refembling Thunder ; 

 He accounts thefe Mountains the higheft in the 

 World. JVoods Rogers owns much the fame in 

 the following ftrong terms ; inz^ " Some parts 

 " of them I believe are full as high, if not higher 

 " than the Pico T'eneriff] with Snow on the top j" 

 He was then cruifmg in South Latitude 17. 03, 

 but does not tell what diftance he might be from 

 them ; and in another place he fays, that he faw 

 Pico ^eneriff very plain when he was at lead 

 thirty-fix Leagues from it, 



16. There is a noted Vulcano near the City of 

 Mexico called Popacatepec^ whofe mouth (at the 

 top of an exceeding high Mountain) is pretty near 

 a Mile in circumference. Vide Dt, Bare/ay's Uni- 

 verfal TCraveller, 



I fuppofe you are by this time weary enough 

 of reading this Epiftle of 



Tours W. S. 



P. 5. There are Vulcanoes in many parts of 

 the Rafi Indies^ which frequently occafion Earth- 

 quakes and their fatal confequences, in much the 

 fame manner with Mtna^ Vefuviusyzndi Strombolo, 



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