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volcanoes, seems every where undermined ; and 

 the currents of lava, seen at Lanzerota and 

 Palma, remind us by every geological affinity of 

 the eruption, which took place in 1301 at the 

 isle of Ischia, amid the tufas of Epomeo. 



The following is a statement of the volcanic 

 phenomena, of which the historians of the Canary 

 islands have preserved the remembrance since 

 the middle of the sixteenth century. 



Year 1558. 



At the period when the island of TenerifFe was 

 ravaged for the first time by the plague brought 

 from the Levant, a volcano burst open, on the 

 15th of April, in the isle of Palma, near a spring 

 in the Partido de los Llanos. A mountain rose 

 from the earth ; and formed a crater at the top, 

 which threw out a current of lava a hundred 

 toises in breadth, and more than two thousand 

 five hundred in length. The lava flowed into 

 the sea, and raising the temperature of the 

 water, destroyed the fish* at great distances 

 around. 



Year 1646. 



The 13th of November, a volcanic mouth 



* This same phenomenon took place in 1811, near the 

 Azores, when the volcano of Sabrina opened at the bottom of 

 the ocean. The calcined skeleton of a shark was found in the 

 inundated and extinguished crater. 



