INTRODUCTIOM, 



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view of a volcaao, in the time of an erup- 

 tion, is a verjr awful and majeftic fpeflacle. 



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qucncy of its eruptions, which arc never attended wiiji 

 earthquakes ; the fecurity, therefore, of the in habitants 

 h not difturbed by the vicinitjr of a phenomenon^ 

 which every where elfe is highly dangerous* It may 

 not, perhaps^ he improper to remark, that water has 

 never been fccn to fpout up from this volcano, an4 

 that no hot mineral fprings arc found in the ifland- 



In the month of June, 17S7, this volcano was 

 obferved in one of its greateft eruptions. The fumrak 

 of the mountain was covered with condenfed' vapoury, 

 of a black ifh colour, which rofc from the ancient crater 

 in fpiral clouds. On the 24th hva ran into the fca. 

 Nine days after it had been thrown up, it extended 

 eighty fathoms in breadth in fomc places, and in otheis 

 forty. A month after, the matter, which flowed then 

 in abundance, formed a current to the fca of about Cxtf 

 fathoms in breadth, and from fifteen to fifteen feet im 

 ^epth. The waves fmoked at the diilance of more 

 ihan thirty fathoms from the place where the lava fell 

 into the water, appearing around of a grcenifh yellow^ 

 a^d forming a band to the leeward of the fame colour, 



nearly 



