f577) 
A Retatien 
of the Raining of Aflies ^ m the Archipelago, ufon the Erupm 
of Mount Vefuvius 5 fme years ago. 
This came but lately to hand from that knowing perfonj 
Mx,Henrj Robinfon-j and was thought fit to be now inferted here, 
that it might notbeloft, though it hath hapned above 30 years 
ago. It was contained in aLetter, (fubfcribed by Capt, Will^ Ba-^ 
^//y) in thefe words: 
THe 5^^- of December 16^1 , being in the Gulf of Fob , riding 
at Anchor , about ten of the Clock that Night, it be- 
gan to rain Sand or Afhes , and continued till two of the 
Clock the next Morning. It Wwis about two inches thick on the 
Deck 5 fo that we caft it over board with Shovels , as we 
did Snow the day before : The quantity of a Bulhel we 
brought home , and prefented . to feveral, ^ ^ r u r aa, ■ 
• 1 it r - If ^1 » * n r . Some of thete Aines 
Friends^, efpecialiy totheMaiters QiTrs^ were produced by Mr. sfoIj;? 
nitj Houfe. There was in our Company, 'E'^eiyn. before the Ko^/d 
Capt. ^^ohn Wilds Commander of the Dra- 
gon 5 and Capt. Anthony Watts , Commander of the Blifabeth and 
Dorcas, There was no Wind ftirring ^ when thefe Arties fell , it 
did not fall onely in the places , where we were , but likewife in 
other parts 5 as Ships were coming from St. ^oh^ d' Acre to our 
Port-, they being at that time a hundred Leagues from us. We 
compared the Aftes together, and found them both one. If you 
defiretofeethe AllieSj let me know. 
An Extract 
of 4 Letter not long ft nee written from Kome , reSfifying th^ 
Relation of S2thn\zndc:s living in Fire. 
This came from that Expert Anatomift M. Steno, to Dr. Croon^ 
ridel. That a Knight called 0^17/;^/ 3 hadafTured him, that, ha- 
ving carta ^^/^^^j^^W^r-, brought him out of iht Indies^ into the 
Fire^ the Animal thereupon fweil'd prefently , and then vomi- 
ted ftore of thick flimy matter , which did put out the neigh- 
bouring Coals 5 to which the Salamander retired immediately , 
putting them out again in the fame manner , as foon as they re- 
Ddd kindled. 
