268 Natural History of Volcanos and Earthquakes. 



Palaia Kameni*) was formed, and since that, as it seems, many 

 other rocks have been raised in its centre. In 1427, this island 

 was increased. In 1573, the Little Kameni was thrown up, ex- 

 actly in the centre of the basin, accompanied with an ejection of 

 steam and pumice ; and between 1707 and 1709, was raised the 

 New Kameni, which still continues to send forth sulphurous va- 

 pors.f Lastly, in the present moment another new island seems 

 to be about to appear to the east of Kameni, about 900 feet from 

 the coast of Satitorin, according to the report of a naval officer of 

 Santorin,% {Nauplia, 4th December, 1834.) The inhabitants of 

 the island assert, that thirty years ago this bank lay at the depth 

 of 90 feet ; in 1820, it was only 60 feet below the surface ; and 

 at present the sea is only 20 feet deep over it. According to later 

 accounts given in the public journals, this bank continues to rise 

 so rapidly, that if it meet with no interruption in its progress, it 

 will, by the year 1840, be able to lay claim to the denomination 

 of an island. In the year 1713, it is said an island arose among 

 the small islands near Vefiice, accompanied with flames, smoke, 

 and the most vehement shocks. This phenomenon, which con- 

 tinued four weeks, drove away the inhabitants from the adjacent 

 islands. After about two years a similar occurrence was repeated, 

 and a second island was thrown up under the same circumstances. 

 These two islands are now, as the neighboring ones, inhabited 

 and cultivated. <5> 



From Leop. Von Buch's instructive exposition of the nature of 

 volcanic phenomena, || which, together with the careful works of 

 Von Hofl", contain a critical compilation of all cases yet known of 

 the production of new mountains and islands by volcanic action, 

 we will borrow only the following examples of recent date. The 

 first I shall mention is the island of Sahrina, near St. Miguel, in 

 the Azores, which is celebrated for the many islands that have 



* Von HofF, Geschlchte der naturlichen Veranderungen der Erdoberflache, t. ii, 

 p. 137. For an account of some crater-shaped islands, see Poggendorff's Annal. 

 V. xxiv, p. 101. 



t See the account of Father Bourignon in Raspe's specimen, &c. de novis a mare 

 natis insulis, 1763, p. 48. 



X Allgemeines Organ far Handel und Gevverbe, <&c. No. 23. 1835 ; and Jame- 

 son's Phil. Journal, vol. xxi, p. 175. 



§ Justi's Geschichte des Erdkorpers, p. 135. 



II Poggendorff's Ann. v. x, p. 1 and following ; p. 169, 345, and 514 and fol- 

 lowing. 



