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CHAPTER LXXXVI. 

 The Reason of Islands rising out of the Sea. 



THERE be Lands also that are produced after another 

 Manner, and emerge on a sudden in some Sea : as if Nature 

 struck a Balance with herself, by giving again in one Place 

 that which her gaping Gulfs had swallowed up in another. 



CHAPTER LXXXVII. 

 What Islands have sprung up, and at what Times 1 . 



THOSE Islands, long since famous, Delos and Rhodes, 

 are recorded to have risen out of the Sea : and afterwards, 

 others that were less, namely, Anaphe, beyond Melos ; Nea, 

 between Lemnus and Hellespont ; Alon, between Lebedus 

 and Teos ; and Thera, and Therasia, among the Cyclades ; 

 which latter shewed in the fourth Year of the 135th Olym- 

 piad. Moreover, among the same Islands, 130 Years after, 

 Hiera, which is the same as Automate. And two Stadii from 

 it, after 110 Years, Thia, in our own Time, upon the eighth 

 Day before the Ides of July, when M. Junius Syllanus and 

 L. Balbus were Consuls. 



CHAPTER LXXXVIII. 

 What Lands the Seas have broken in between. 



IN our own Presence, and near to Italy, between the 

 JEtolian Islands ; and also near to Crete, there was one that 

 shewed itself with hot Fountains out of the Sea, for 1500 



was a part of the teaching of Pythagoras, as we learn from Ovid (book 

 xv.) ; and by him it seems to have been made a portion of his doctrine of 

 the metempsychosis. Wern. Club. 



1 What are denominated eruptions of elevation have occurred in 

 various ages, and in almost every quarter of the world. The latest, and, 

 perhaps the most precise, account, of such an elevation of an island from 

 the bottom of the sea, is that of Graham's Island, in 1831, in the Medi- 

 terranean Sea, between Partellaria and Sciacca ; of which many parti- 

 culars are given in several publications of that date : and popularly in 

 London's "Magazine of Natural History," vol. iv. Wern. Club. 



