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I. A Relation of a New Ifland^ which was raifed up 
from the Bottom of the Sea, on the i^d of May 
1707. in the Bay of Santorini, in the Archi- 
pelago. Written by Father Goree (4 ffefnit) an 
Eye~witnefs. 
MONG the Prodigies of Nature, and the moft 
furprizing things which She has at any time pro- 
duc’d, we may, in my Opinion, very juftly reckon an 
Ifland which rofe up from the Bottom of the Sea, 
about 4 Years ago, in the Bay which makes the Harbour 
of the Ifle o f Santorini in the Archipelago efpecially if 
we confider the Situation, Manner, and all the ether 
Circumftances of the Formation of this New Ifland. 
For what can be more furprizing, than to fee Fire, not 
only break out of the Bowels of the Earth, but alfo 
to make itfelf a Paffage through the Waters of the Sea, 
without being extinguilhed ? Or what can be more 
extraordinary, or foreign to our common Notions of 
• things, than to fee the Bottom of the Sea rife up into 
a Mountain above the Water, and to become fo firm 
an liland, as to be able to refift the violence of the 
greateft Storms ? I know very well, that Subterraneous 
Fires, when pent in a narrow Paffage, are able to raife up 
a Mafs of Earth as large as an Ifland : But that this 
fhould be done in fo regular and exaft a manner, that 
the Water of the Sea cannot any ways penetrate to, and 
extinguifh them , that the Fire itfelf, after having made 
fo many Vent-holes and Paffages, fhould notwithftand. 
ing retain a force fufficient to raife up fo great a Mafs ; 
and in fine, after the Fire is extinff, that this great Mafs 
fhould not fall or fink down again thro’ its own weight, 
but 
