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CHANGES tlie night before, and we were not gone a mile up the fides of the 

 ^ ^ hill from the watering-place, when we came to a fpot clear of wood 



and of reeds, where we faw a fmoak or fteam rifmg from the 



flrongly fulphureous ; and the earth was fo 



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ground : its fmell 



o 



was 



The foil about 



intenfely hot, that we could hardly ftand on it. 



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thefe fpiracles looked whitilh like clay : and in other places of 



red ochre. The fumes rifmg were real 



its neighbourhood like 



fteams, and in all appearance not noxious to vegetation ^ for I 

 obferved feveral fig-trees loaded with fruit, within 2 or 3 yards of 

 them. I traced thefe folfataras up the hill, in feveral other places, 



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and as that day the volcano made a great many loud explofions, we 

 could plainly fee, that a new quantity of vapours rofe from thefe 

 fpiracles after each explofion. I traced thefe fpiracles another time 

 likewife, down the hill, within a few yards of the fea, where at 



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hio-h water mark, feveral hot wells were found by us. 



From the (liip we obferved, that the volcano threw up ignited 



ilones of an 



fe iize .: for as we were about 6 or 8 miles ofE 



the ftones muil: be of a confiderable bulk to be vifible at fuch a 

 diftance. When we left the iiland, there appeared on the outfide 



•of the volcano, among 



the aflies, a fmoaking ridge, which v/as 



not obferved at firft w^hen we came into the harbour. And as I had 



befor 



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feen 



r» 



Oii 



a 



cliff 



near 



the 



kiy fomc pieces 



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f lava, it is 



probable this fmoaking place, contained a ftream of ignited flags, 



formin^of 



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