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nited fubftaiices, which falling almoft per-^ 

 pendicularly around the volcanos, produced, 

 in the fhort fpace of ten days, feven fmall 

 mountains, of various heights, difpofed in a 

 right line. During thefe ejedions, the noife 

 which accompanied them fometimes refem- 

 bled that of violent thunder, and at others 

 the difcharge of a number of cannons. Se- 

 veral of the burning ftones, even the largefl, 

 were thrown to the height of nine hundred 

 and fixty feet, and fome fell at a confider- 

 able diftance from the mouth whence they 

 were thrown. Thefe erudtations ihook all 

 the neighbouring country, and the roarings 

 of the mountain were dreadful to the inha- 

 bitants. After the tenth day, the eruptions 

 ceafed, and the newly-formed mountains, 

 gradually cooling, permitted a nearer ap- 

 proach ; when fome were found to have at 

 their fummit a cavity refembling an invert- 

 ed funnel, and others a fimple hollow, of 

 greater or lefs depth. 



The produdion of the Eolian ifles being 

 anterior to the records of hiftory, we know 



not 



