(96%) 
Interdum [copulos , avulfaque vifcera Mentis 
Erigit eruitans , liquefactaque faxd (ub auras 
Cum gemitpt glomtrat ^ fmdoqut ex^eftmt imo, 
A^terthiswefindin Thticjdides ^ that in the ^6. Oljmfiady, 
wSkb is about 475. before Ctirift 5 there wisanoth.^r Fire 5 and 
about 50. years after that, another. 
Then, in the time of the Rema^ C0n[tiUs there haped fout E- 
ruptions ol<i^Jna , recorded by Biodorus Sicfdus md Pelyhius. 
Thenext vvjsin thetimeof5^«//W Cie/^r, related by thefaid 
biodorus to hzvQ been fo feirce, that the Sea about Ltparoi 
(an iflandneere.S/V/7/) by its fervenc heat burnt the Ships, and 
kiird all Fifes thereabout. 
Another we read of in the Reign of CaliguU^ about 40. years 
afterChrift , which was fo dreadful, thai it made that Empe- 
rour, then being in Sicily ^ to fly for it. 
About the Martyrdome of theRom:fh S. Agatha it burned 
againevtry fiercely 5 though fome fay, that by venue of her 
iftterceffion it was ftay*d from reaching Cataniai 
Againeitburnt A. C. 812. in the R;ign of Charles f-f. 
Then from the year 1160 to 1669, whole Sicilj was fhl- 
l^n with many terrible Earth-quikes , and the E upaons of the 
fame Mountain deftroyed a vaft traft of iahabited land round 
about it,and reacht as far as C4?/ir^/^.5 the Cathedtal of which ic 
deftrcy'd, and the religious men living in it. 
Agaifle,in the year i284ithere happened another terrible fire 
about the time of the death of Charles king of Sicily and Arrag$n, 
A 13 2^ untill 1333. there was another. A, 1402. another. 
A. 1+^4. another, which lafted till 1447. 
A. I 53 i5. another, which lifted a year. 
A. 1*^3 3v another, continuing fcvera! years,^, 
A, 1^550, it burnt on the North-Eift-fide, and vomited fo^ 
snitch fire, that by the fiery Torrents, caufcd thereby, great 
devaftation was made , ^tKircher relates in his Mundus (ulter- 
mneus ; whofe affiftanceive hive alfo made ufe of in the fore* 
going Chronology together with that of TMetheus^ 
The fame Author, having beenin.y/Vi/y hitnfelf, obferveth/ 
tiat the people of Catama^^ digging for Pumice-ftanes, do find 
n thcdepth of i^oo palmes (which is about «8.feet ) ftrect ^ ps- 
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