CHANGES 



OF 



OUR GLOBE 



arrival there in 1722. However, it was obvious to every one, that 

 the iile had been fubjed to the violence of a volcano, which had 

 perhaps deftroyed a part of it. . 



But the tropical iiles in the South-Seas bear likewife the mofl 

 undeniable marks of violent changes from iire and earthquakes ; 

 though their prefent cultivated ftate, the fine mould covering their 



furface, and the 



vegetables 



partly hide the 



eflig 



of thefe revolutions, and require therefore the eye of a man ufed to 

 thefe enquiries, and acquainted with nature in its various ftates. 

 The excavated tops of the peaks of Mai ate a^ Bol a-bol a, and 



MouRUA, the fpires and fhattered rocks of the interior parts of 

 Te-Arraeoo, or the little peninfula of O-T ah ei tee, together, 

 with the honey-combed black rocks and lava of Tobreonoo and the , 



« 



Marquesas, are fuch proofs of thefe revolutions, as nobody will 



' r 



difpute, who is v/eli acquainted with the fubjed:, and has formerly 

 examined the neighbourhood of volcanos. Nay, all the New- 



Hebrides, the Marquefas, and Society-Iiles, together with the 



Azores or Weftern-Illes in the Atlantic, have .all m.oire or lefs, the 

 fame marks of thofe great changes, which they have undergone in 

 former ap-es; 

 raneous fires- h 



But if we remember, that earthquakes and fubter 



all 



S 



d iiles fro 



depth 



f th 



ocean 



; li we read the accounts of the origin of The r as i a and 



HiERA, or Santerini and Yolc anello, of the. two Kamenis, 



of 



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FORMA- 

 TION OF 



ISLES. . 



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