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appearing to have been equally afFedled by 

 that agent. 



Alicuda is about fix miles in circuit, and 

 I have as yet made the tour of only the 

 one half. On completing it, however, I 

 only met with lavas of the fame kind with 

 thofe already defcribed, diverfified by a few 

 varieties that do not merit a particular de- 

 fcription. 



I have given fome faint fketches of the 

 appearance of the lavas in fome parts of 

 this ifland ; but it would be irapofTible for 

 me to give an adequate idea of the fearful 

 wildnefs of the fcenes which prefent them- 

 felves to the eye for two-thirds of this cir- 

 cuit. Among all the volcanized places I 

 have vifited, I have yet feen none fo con- 

 vulfed by fubterranean fires, {o torn and 

 fhattered, and fo filled with accumulated 

 ruins by the devaflations of time and the 

 fea. 



In fome places we find a lava extending 



for 



