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*' been heard j fince not only in this illand, 

 ** but at Chios and Smyrna, all the filver 

 " became red, whether kept in coffers or 

 " in the pocket ; and the religious who re- 

 *' Tided there told me that all their chalices 

 " became red. After fome days the infec- 

 " tion ceafed, and the filver returned to its 

 " former colour. 



" The pumices which were thrown up 

 *' covered the Archipelago in fuch a man- 

 " ner, that, for fome time, when certain 

 " winds prevailed, the harbours were i^o 

 '* blocked with them, that not even the 

 ** fmalleft veflels could get out till a way 

 *' was made for them by removing the 

 " pumices v^ith long poles, and they are 

 " ftill feen fcattered over the whole Medi- 

 *' terranean, though in a fmall quantity *.'* 



Tournef(pit, after having remarked from 

 Herodotus that Santorine was once called 

 KaA/.i7-;i or " the moft beautiful ifland," 

 adds, that " its ancient inhabitants would 



* Voyages de INI. de Thevenot, Prem. Part. 



N 3 " not 



