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INTRODUCTION* 



when the weather is unfettled, might lofc 

 their lives by their imprudeaLe The 



view 



♦ The foHcnving account is given of this volcano, in 

 a Memoir publiflicd bj Mr. Brunei. " It u fituatcd 

 almoO: at the funimit of a hollow truncated mountainj^ 

 the bafe of which> gently inclining, refla on a bed of 

 calcined earth, at the diftance of a full league from the 

 fea. Though the matter it contains in its bowels 

 boils up continually, it does not always fwcU fo much 

 m to rife through the crater. When an eruption takes 

 place, the mehed lava may be feen flowing down the 

 fide* of the moutttain in undulationsj which follow 

 •ach other in fuccefiion, and exhibit the appearance of 

 s flaming cafcadc. The light which it diifufes to a 

 great diflancC} whether at land or at fca, is equal to 

 _ that of the moon when Ihe fliines with full fpicndour* 

 It is even a tradition, believed in t3ic country, that tliis 

 natural pharos firfl. drew hither ihofc Europeans who 

 vifitcd diefe coafls. 



" The environs of the volcano are parched and co- 

 vered with fal-ammoniac, native fulphur^ alum, pumice- 

 ftonc, and fcoria. A remarkable peculiarity which 

 iiflinguifhes this from all other volcanoes the frc 



quency 



