CHANGES 



OF 



OUR GLOBE. 



td againfl the power of both : this therefore might account for the 

 method emxployed by the animalcules in building only narrow ledges 



L 



of coral rocks, to fecure in their middle a calm and fheltered place : 

 and this feems to me to be the mofl probable caufe of the origin 

 of all THE TROPICAL LOW ISLES, over the whole South-Sea. 



We come now to the higher ones. I muft confefs, there is 



t 

 t 



hardly one of them, which had not one wajr or other, flrong marks 

 and vefliges left, of its having undergone fome violent alteration in 

 its furface by fire, or, as I fhould rather fay, by avolcanoi 



It is very well knov/n, that many iiles * have been raifecf out of 

 thefea by tlieadionof a fubterraneous fire. The iilands of^SAN- 



h 



TORiNT, and the twoKAMExNis -f, in the Greek Archipelago, and 



rr 



tlie iile formed ia 172.Q, in the Weflern Iiles j» are inconteftible 



r 

 r 



proofs 



151 



FORMA- 

 TION OF 



ISLE S . 



*-PIin. Hlft'. Nat. lib. 11. c. 88, 8^. lib. Jv. c. 22.— Seneca Nat. Quseft. vL c. 21, 2^. 

 & lib. ii. c. 26. — Sirab. Almeloven., jx 94, 100. — Plutarch, de Pythiis Oraculis, ex edit. 

 Xyland. Frft. 1620. p. 399.— Pauilm, lib. vlii. c. 33.— Juftin. lib. sxx. c. 4— Niceph. Pa- 

 triarch. Brev...Hift. Paris, 1648. p. 37. ad ami. 727. ad eund. Theophal. Chronogr. refert. 



Cedrcn. & Paul. Diacon. Coronelir Ifolario, p. 243. edit. Venet. 1696. fol. Philof. 



Tranf. vol. xxvli. No. 332.— Dio. CalF. lib. Ix. c. 29.— Aureh Viftor. in Claudio.— i\min, 



Blarcell. edit. Valef. Paris, 1681. fol. lib. xvii. c. 7.— Pindar. 01. Ode 2 Died. Sic. lib. v. 



G-. 55 — Hcraclid. Pont, de Polit. Grjec. ad calcem Ciiigli, de Rep. Laced.— Phllo Jiid. de- 

 Mundi Incorrupt, p. 9^9. 



t Nouveaux Memolrcs des Mlffions. torn. I.— Philof. Tranf. vol. xxvil; n; 332. 



: Gaffendl de Vita Eplcuri. voL II. p. 1050.— IM. de i'Acad. do Paris, de.1721. p. 26.. 



h 1122. p. 13.— Philof. Tranf. abrid^-. torn. v. feft. ii..p,^ 154. Comment. Bonon. toxn^i 



p. 205 



