Bat befides this mifchieffrom poifonous Exhaktions Stagna- 
tion of the Air , or W^ter impregnated with minerall fpirits , 
they fomedmes perifh by other ways. For there being in chefe 
Mines an incredible mafsof wood tofupport the Pitts and the 
Horizontal paffages >( the Tutei and CunicuU ) in all places but 
where 'cis Rocky, me n are fomedmes deftroy'd by the wood kt 
on fire. And in the Gold-mine at Chrmnitz the wood was once 
fetonfire by thexirelefnefsofa boy, and 50 Miners fmothe- 
red thereby * who ^erealltakea out but one, that was after- 
wards found to be diflToIv'd by the Vitrioll water , nothing efca- 
ping either of fitfli or bones but only fome of hiscloaths. I 
sm &c. 
¥km$ April, io \66s\ 
AChromlogkd Auomp 
of the fever al Incendium's or Fires of Mount ^Etna, 
THe prefent Fire of e/^/;?^ ^ (whereof there was lately a 
Relation printed here in the Savoj)m\\ make it appear not 
unfeafonable to refl back upon former Ages , and to colled 
from Hiftory the fev^rall Eruptioiis hapned theie, together 
with the times of them , and fome obfervations recorded by Au- 
thors concerning the fame. 
Topafsby what is related by Berofus ^ Orfheus and othei; 
Icfs credible Authors 5 about the Eruptions of this Mountain , 
both at the time of the ingrefs of the Ionian Colonies into Si- 
cily , and that of the Argonaut es (which latter was in the l atfi 
Age before the Chriflian account 5 ) we fliall firft take notice of 
that^which happened at the time of the Expedition of t^nus^ 
who being terrified by the fire of this then burning Mountain, 
left that Ifland s whereof Firgil 1. 3. t/£neid. gives this notable 
dcfcriptioni 
Ignarique vi£ y Cjclopm dUbimur oris I 
lortus ab mefu ventorum immotus €tingens l 
Jf(^ fed horrs fiefs juxta tonat ity£tna ruinis ^ 
Jnterdumme etiam frorumfit ad dthera nnbeml 
Turbine pmantem ficeo ttcandentefaviU^ ^ 
AttMtiiHe ghbn pmmmm^ es fidera lamiif, 
' ^ ' " Inferdm 
