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nually heard. The fire frequently casts out stones; and 

 lies exceeding deep. Probably the burning mountain* 

 in the Molucca islands are consumed beneath by the 

 .same fire. 



Manilla is one of the largest of 'the Philippine islands 

 The city is much larger than Oxford, is an university 

 and is inhabited only by Spaniards. The houses are 

 large, and built very strong. The lower walls are stone 

 and of a prodigious thickness. All above is wood, anc 

 every piece of timber has a connexion with the others 

 and all are joined together, that the earthquakes which 

 are very frequent may not thro\%them down. In 1/50 

 they had an earthquake with almost continual trembling! 

 for three months. Then followed an eruption in a sinal 

 island, surrounded by a large lake, which is unfatliom 

 able. The third day after the eruption began, there 

 srose in the lake four more small islands, all burning 

 About a mile from one of these, there is a fire rising 

 continually out of the water, in a part where there 

 is no ground for above a hundred fathom. 



11. A particular account of a journey to Mount 

 Hecla, is given by a late author. " We travelled/' says 

 he, " two days in rugged and unfrequented roads. Then 

 we came within six miles of the mountain, and perceived 

 the. ground strewed with ashes and pumice stone, over 

 which we passed to the foot of it. The weather being 

 serene and calm, and no fiames issuing out of the vol- 

 cano, we resolved to go to the top; till being informed 

 by our guides, that if \\e went any further, we should 

 be in danger of falling into pits, where we might be suf- 

 focated by the fumes rising out of the earth, all m) 

 company declined it. I told them, if they would stay 

 for me, I would 450 alone. They promised they would, 

 So I alighted and prepared to go up, when one of them 

 offered to go up with me. 



" Having given our horses to our guides, who stayed 

 with the rest of our company, we ventured forward, re- 



