OF LA PEROtTSB. 35 



" On the 2 1 ft Prairial, 6th year (June 9th, 

 n 1798), the inhabitants of Santa Cruz heard 

 " fome hollow and repeated noifes, which very 

 " much refembled the report of cannon fired at 

 " a great diftance ; in the night there was a 

 " flight earthquake ; and it was known the next 

 " day that a volcano had broken out on the 

 " fouth-weft fide of the Peak. At the heginT 

 " ning of the eruption they reckoned fifteen 

 t{ craters; thefe were foon reduced to twelve, 

 u and at the end of a month there were to be 

 " feen only two, whence continually ifTued large 

 " rocks, which, vomited forth with the lava, 

 t( followed their projeclile motion, frequently 

 <c for fifteen feconds, before they again fell to 

 " the ground." 



We had been fo encumbered till our arri- 

 val at this anchorage, that it had not been pof- 

 fible to berth properly all the fhip's com- 

 pany. 



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