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" not at prefent know it, fmce it is covered 

 *' with pumices, or, more properly, is a 

 " mine of thofe ftones, which may be cut 

 " into great fquare blocks, as other ftones 

 *' are cut in the quarries *." 



According to this traveller and to The- 

 venot, Santorine is thirty- fix miles in cir- 

 cuit ; v/hence it appears what a prodigious 

 accumulation of pumices there muft be in 

 this illand and the adjacent fea. It merits 

 notice, however, that neither thefe two 

 travellers, nor others who have written of 

 Santorine, make the leaft mention of glaifes 

 of any kind ; we may therefore venture to 

 affirm that the fubterraneous fires have, 

 there, never produced them. 



If from Europe we pafs to the three 

 other quarters of the globe, we fhall find 

 in each a great number of volcanos, which 

 it w^ould be fuperfluous to enumerate par- 

 ticularly, fuch an enumeration having al- 



* Voyage du Levant. 



ready 



