The Natural Hiflory Part 



fuch as Earth/^uakeSj and the burning; 

 Mountains, or Vulcmoes. But of thefe^ 

 I thank God, and the good Conftitu* 

 tion of this happy Ifland, I have n6| 

 had any opportunity of ObfervationI 

 Yet fbmething I have to offer concernl 

 ing thefe, and the Caufes of them, 

 from the Obfervations of others. Not 

 that the Thing is fo very material, or 

 that they make fuch havock of, and 

 Alterations in, the Globe as fome Men 

 fancy. We have affurance from Hi-^ 

 ftory, that jEtP^a and Vefuvim have 

 lent forth Flames, by fits, for this two 

 or three thoufand years, and no doubt 

 but they have done fo much longer ; 

 and yet we (ee both Sicily and Campa- 

 nia^ the Countries wherein thofe two 

 Mountains ftand, are ftill where they 

 were : nay the very Mountains them- 

 felves are yet in Being, and have not 

 fiiffered any confiderable Diminution 

 or Confumption, but are at this day 

 the two higheft Mountains in thofe 

 Countries. What they have really 

 fufFered : by what means both thefe^ 

 and Earthquakes^ are occafioned : and 

 what are their EffeBs upon the Globe^ 

 fliall be fully and carefully confidered 

 i;i due place ; from which Confidera- 

 ^ tions 



