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like successive discharges of artillery. In the little harbor of Vulcano 
the sea was violently agitated, and an innumerable multitude of bubbles 
rose incessantly from the depths. At the same time we could see on its 
surface and on its borders white vapors giving an odor of sulphur. The 
afternoon of the same day the boiling of the sea increased, and the 
ground on the beach commenced gradually to sink down, On the morn- 
ing of the 20th, about five o’clock, flames, forming a conical fire ten to 
fifteen square meters at the base and from four to five in height, were seen 
on the sea. After an hour they entirely disappeared. We then went 
upon the spot with the sub-prefect and some others to make a nearer ex- 
amination of the phenomenon. e then saw that the whole south- 
western part of New Kaimeni was shattered to pieces. A chasm, com- 
tion of veleanic stones and sand, or rather of the powder of basaltic 
rocks, was always very dry and in no way susceptible of vegetation. 
area of twelve square meters, we saw its waters rise five centimeters 
within four hours. We advanced toward the focus of the voleanic ac- 
tion and perceived a sulphurous odor like that of rotten eggs. White 
and suffocating vapors arose from the agitated sea, and from time to 
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the eastern: this last showed a depression of hardly three meters, while 
abundant springs containing sulphate of iron, which spirted up with 
force from its depths, accompanied with much noise from the gases €S- 
caping with violence. About 5 p.m. of the same day we felt at Santo- 
rn @ slight shock. * 83° % 
P.S.—N. C., Jan. 23, 11°30 a. m—The reef has been changed to an 
island, to which I am unable to approach very closely on account of the 
