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1754, NoveMBER and DecemBerR.—A most terrible vol- 
canic eruption in the Phillippine Islands. Ashes, sand, mud, 
fire and water thrown up. Darkness, hurricanes, thunder, 
lightning ; long-protracted, violent, and repeated earthquakes, 
alternated in frightful succession. Taal, and several villages, © 
totally destroyed.—Edin. Phil. Journal. 
1779.—Kamtschatka. No thunder and lightning during 
our stay, except on the evening of the eruption of the volcano. 
The general severity of the winter, and the dreadful hurri- 
canes of wind and snow that season brings along with it, 
cannot be questioned. The extraordinary violence and 
impetuosity of the winds are attributed to the subterranean 
fires, the sulphureous exhalations, and the general volcanic 
disposition of the country.—Cook’s Third Voyage. 
1779.—Aveust 7th.—Great eruption of Vesuvius. Sir 
W. Hamilton was on the mole at Naples, at 12 P.m., when 
the fermentation of the mountain was greatly increased, and 
a summer storm, called a tropea, came on suddenly. One 
of His Sicilian Majesty’s gamekeepers who was out in the 
fields near Ottaiano whilst this s¢ovm was at its height found 
the drops of rain scadd his face and hands.—Encyc. Brit. 
1783, Iceland.—The most tremendous volcanic eruption 
on record, accompanied by violent wind, rain, and darkness. 
Three fire-spouts broke out on Mount Shapta; twenty-one 
villages were totally overwhelmed, and thirty-four others 
materially injured.—Haydn’s Dict. of Dates. 
1796.—In the Aleutian Archipelago eruptions are fre- 
quent. About thirty miles to the north of Unalaska, near 
the isle of Umnack, a new island was formed in 1796. It 
was first observed after a storm at a point in the sea from 
which a column of smoke had been seen to rise. Flames 
issued from the new islet, and a frightful earthquake shook 
the new-formed cone. Earthquakes of the most terrific 
