t n. of the Earth. 1 1 1 



Jaoocker, as thoie Earthquakes happen* 

 red* That thefe are fb far from raifieg 

 Moontcuns , that they overturn and 

 fling down, fbnfie of thofe which were 

 before ftanding 5 and undermine others, 

 linking them into the Abyfs under* 

 neath f . That of all the Mountains t Confer, 

 of the whole Globe, which are v^^ylTa.t 

 numerous J and many of them extreme- conf iz. 

 \j iarge^ and confequently cannot be 

 fuppoi^d to have b/^^en all thus raifed 

 without the Notice of Mankind, yet 

 there is not any authentick Inftance, 

 in all: Hiftory, of fb much as one fingie 

 Moootain that was heaved up by an 

 Earthquake. That the new Mountain 

 in the Lucrine Lake, not far from Poz^ 

 zuolo in Italy^ called Monte di CinerCy 

 which is alledged by the Fautors of 

 this OpinioM, as an inftance in behalf 

 of ic^ was not raifed thus; the Rela- 

 tors of that Accident, as well thofe who 

 were then living, as they who wrote 

 fince, iioanimoufly agreeing that this 

 Tumulm^ or Hill, is no other than an 

 huge heap of Stones, Cinders, Earth, 

 and Aihes, which w^ere fpued up out 

 of the bowels of the Earth, by the 

 Eruption of a Volcano^ which hap- 

 pened there, in the Year 1 538. And 



though 



