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River-, and having run in t full body for t good Scones caft 
or more, the extreamitics. thereof begafl to cruft and cur- 
dle^becoraing, when cold , thofc hard porous Scones , which 
the people call Sciarri Jiiving the neareft refenblancc to huge 
Cakes of fea- cole 5 full of a fierce Fire, Thcfccame rolingand 
tumbling over one another, and where they met with a bank , 
would fill up and fwellover> by their weight bearing down any 
common building , and burning up what was combuftible. The 
chief motion of this matter was forward , but it was alfo dilating 
it felf, as a Floud of Water would doe on even ground , thrus- 
ting out feverall Armes , or Tongues , as they call them. 
About 2. or 3, of the Clock in the night we mounted an 
high Tower in Catania , whence we had a full view of the 
Mouth 5 which was a terrible fight 5 i//;&. to fee fogreatamafs 
or body of mcer Fire. Next morning we would have gone up 
to the Mouth itfelf, but durft not come nearer than a furlong 
off, for feare of being overwhelmed by a fuddcn turn of the 
wind 5 which carried up into the Air feme of that vaft pillar of 
Aflies, which toourapprehenfion exceeded twice the bignefs 
of Pauls steeple in Lmdon^md went up in a ftreight body to a 
farr greater hight than that 5 the whole Air being thereabout all 
covered with thelighceft efthofeAfties blown off from the top 
of chis pillar : And from the firft breaking forth of the Fiie untill 
irs fury ceafed ( bdng 54, days ) neither ^un uotSu;t were fcen 
in all that parr. 
Frcm the outfide of this p'.llar fell off great qumtity of^toaes, 
but none very bigg , neither couM we difcern any Firein them, 
nor come to fee , where that fiery fluffbrokeouc , there, being 
a great bank or hill of Aflies betwixt it and us. 
At the Mouth 5 whence iffued the Fire, orAflies^or both, 
was a continual ncife 5 like the beating of grest waves of the 
StJ. againft Recks, orlik^ thunder a farr off, which fome- 
times i have heard here iii Mesfim , though fituited at the foot 
cf highhils and do. miles off. It hath alfo been heard 100. 
crilcsNordward of this place, \nCaUhria( as I have been ere- 
c'ibly informed , ) whither the Aflies have alfo been carried Aad 
r>me of oar f^iimcn have alfo reported, that their decks were 
".overed therewith at Zant, though its likely not very t iick, 
