(loaO 
of ihokBmnt Stone%ot Sci4m^ I hive feme by rae ofdi-^ 
vers (jaalifies 5 and fliall;procure what morelan, to be fenc 
by the firft paffage. 
About the middle oiMaywem^dc another Journey thither, 
where we found the face of things much altered^the City ofcau- 
nia being three quarters of it ccmpafTed round with thefe ScUrri^ 
as hfgh as the top of the Wals 5 and in many places it had broke 
over. The firft n ght of our arrival a new ftreameor gutter of 
Fire broke forth among fome Sciarri^ which we were wal- 
king upon an hour or two before 5 and they were as high 
as to be even with the top of the Wall. It powred itfeif 
downintothe Citty in a fmali gutter of about 3. foot broad ^ 
and?. foot longofmeer Fire, the extremities ftili falling off 
into thofc Sciarri% but this ftrearae was extind by the next 
morning , though ic had filled up a great void place with its 
Sciarri. The next night was another much bigger Channel dif- 
ccvered , powring itfelf over another part of the Wall into the 
Gaftle-ditch, which continued (as we were informed) fomg 
days after oar dtptrture. D versof thofefmal Rivolets did rua^ 
at the fame time into the St^^ ^ and it does fo ftill at this very 
day, though faintly. 
It was obfcrved > that thofe ftreams of Fire never grew broa» 
der nor vifibly longer , nor moved out of the place » they were 
feen in $ which put usa little more to examine their working^and 
we did conclude, that not only then, but in thefury alfoof 
its runnings it made itfelf certain crufted gutters to run in, to 
keep itfelf, as 'twere from the Air, which by degrees did cool 
and fix it , as more plainly appeared above at the Mouth,where^ 
the firft time of our going thither, we found ^ Stutri ge» 
nerally thus coold an J fixt^ And hence alfo it might proceed, 
that thefe live Smrri^ meeting with anybank or high ground, 
would puff and fwell up, till they had overcome it. fo that in 
many places, efpcially under the Wals of C^i^^/^i^, were Val- 
lys of thofe Siiarri , and the Fire never brok f orth, or dif« 
covered itfelr in thofe ftreams ^ until it had gainM its fight | 
for thofc rivolets ever wtnc declining. 
Having fpcnt a couple of days about Catania ., we igiia 
went op to the Mouth , wherenowwitbQiicany danger of Fire 
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