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" wile heard even to Chios, dlftant more 

 *' 'than two hundred miles, and was tliought 

 " to be occafioned by the Venetian fleet 

 *' having engaged the Turks ; in confe- 

 " quence of which great numbers of people 

 *' got upon the higheil places early in the 

 '* morning, to be fpectators of the battle ; 

 " and I remember the Reverend Father 

 *' Bernardo, a venerable man, perfeclly de- 

 " ferving credit, told me he was one among 

 *' the number of thofe who were fo de- 

 *' ceived, imagining they heard a violent 

 *' cannonade. They could however fee no- 

 '• thing. In fad:, this noife was caufed by 

 " a fire kindled in the earth, under the har- 

 *■ hour, the effect of which w^as, that from 

 " the morning to the evening a vaft quan- 

 *' tity of pumices role from the bottom of 

 " the fea, with fuch violence and noife as to 

 *' refemble repeated difcharges of cannon, 

 *' and fo infedled the air that feveral perfons 

 *' died at Santorine, and many loft their 

 '' fight, which they did not recover till 

 ^' fome days after. This infedion extended 

 " as far as the noife which had preceded it had 



" been 



