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map lias been reduced from an Admiralty sm^vej executed in 



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Pliny informs iis tliat the year 186, B.C., gave birth to the 



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made 



above water, and was soon joined by subseqnent eruptions to 

 the older island, from "which it was only 250 paces distant. 

 The Old Kaimeni also increased successively in size in 726 

 and in 1427. A century and a half later, in 1573, another 

 eruption produced the cone and crater called Micra-Kaimeni, 

 or 'the Small Burnt Island.' The next great event which 

 we find recorded occurred in 1650, when a submarine out- 

 break violently agitated the sea, at a point o^ miles to the 

 NE. of Thera, and which gave rise to a shoal (see A in 

 the Map) carefully examined during the survey of 1848 by 

 Captain Graves, and found to have 10 fathoms water over it, 

 the sea deepening around it in all directions. This eruption 

 lasted three months, covering the sea with floating pumice. 

 At the same time an earthquake destroyed many houses in 

 Thera, while the sea broke upon the coast, overthrew two 

 churches, and exposed to view^ two villages, one on each side 

 of the mountain of St. Stephen, both of which must have 

 been overwhelmed by showers of volcanic matter during some 

 previous eruptions of unknown date.^ The accompanying 

 evolution of sulphur and hydrogen issuing from the sea killed 

 more than 50 persons, and above 1,000 domestic animals. 

 A wave, also, 50 feet high, broke upon the rocks of the Isle 



of Isl 



la, about 4 leagues distant, and advanced 450 yards 

 into the interior of the Island of Sikino. Lastly, in 1707 and 



Kaimeni. or the New 



Mici 



Isles. This isle was com 



originally of two distinct 



parts; the first which rose was called the White 



pumice 



Goree, the 



Jesuit, who was then in Santorin, says that the rock ' cut 

 like bread,' and that, when the inhabitants landed on it, they 



fresh oysters adhering 



found a multitude of 



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^ Virlet, Bull, do la Soc. Geol. de Franco, torn. 'u\. p. lOJ. 



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