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be able to ftemm it. The breadth of the 

 Strait from Meffma to Rhegium may be about a 

 League. The Land is very high on the Ca^ 

 labrian {idiQ^ where are very fteep Rocks, and 

 great depth of Water, above 150 Fathom-, 

 as they told us : but on the Sicilian fide, near 

 Charybdis Shole-water, and ufually an Eddy. 

 On the Sandy Banks ftands the Phare or 

 Watch-tower. Several Currents meeting in 

 this narrow Paflage, caufe a great ripling of 

 the Water: and great quantity of Water 

 coming in, as the Winds drive, in greatquan- 

 tity meeting with the Shole, is broken into 

 Waves. The Eddies here are caufed by the 

 meeting of the different Currents by vyhich 

 the Waters are fometimes carried and 

 fometimes S. the great danger is, left they 

 drive the Ship on either fide. We have 

 had Lightning for feven or eight Nights to- 

 gether. 



7. We faird by CStna^ now called Mon- 

 gibel^ where the Sea widens ten or eleven 

 Leagues over. Now we fee plainly the Smoke 

 briskly iffuing out of the Crater^ the Limbus 

 of which was all black. The uppermoft part 

 of the Mountain was covered with Snow, 

 except fome ftreaks of Afiies, as we judge, 

 which lie as it were in a Gutter, fpread here 

 and thei'e. 



8. We efpied a Saettia at about 3 Leagues 

 diflance^ and making up to her, found her 

 forfaken. Captain fent feveral Sea-men 

 on board, and carryed the Veflei to Smyr^^ 



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