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into two parts, It Is difficult to conceive that 

 no record or tradition fhoiild remain of this 

 convulfive reparation. On the contrary, when 

 I attentively examine and confider thefe two 

 iilands, they have every appearance of being 

 each a diftindt ifland, hke Stromboli, Saline, 

 and the others. Both likewife have on their 

 higheft fummits the veftlges of their primi- 

 tive crater, that is, of that which by its 

 erudations has given birth to its refpe(fl:ive 

 ifland. The lavas, likewife, which have 

 flowed from thefe fummits, as from central 

 points, and enlarge and extend as they take 

 their courfe down the fides of the mountain 

 towards the fea, feem clearly to prov.? that 

 each was a complete ifland in itfelf ; nor 

 can I doubt but the French naturalift, had 

 he vifited thefe iflands themfelves, would 

 have been of my opinion. He only viewed 

 them from the higheft part of Saline, that 

 is, at the diftance of five-and-twenty miles 

 from Felicuda, and five-and-thirty from 

 Alicuda. At that diftance they feem very 

 near to each other ; fo that M. Dolomieu, 

 judging from appearance, fuppofes Felicuda 

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