( m ) 
but ftill remain of the fame Height that the Fire had 
raifed it 3 This is what to me Teems more furprizing 
than any thing that has been related of Maunt Gibe ! , 
Vefuvius , or any other Volcano. 
Yet this is not the firft time that thefe Prodigies in 
Nature have been feeg at Santorini ; For, if it be not true, 
that this Ifland itfelf, which was anciently call’d Thera, 
was in like manner raifed out of the Sea (as Pliny allures 
us it was,) it is at leaft moft certain, that three other 
fmall Ifhnds (two of which lye within the Bay of San- 
torini, and the third a little without it) have been 
formed and raifed up above the Sea by Subterraneous 
Fires. 
The firft of thefe Iflands, which was anciently call'd 
Hiera , becaufe it was (as is thought) dedicated to Pints,, 
is now named Megali Kammeni , that is to fay, the Great 
Burnt Ifland. Juflin (/. 30. c. 4 ) fpeaking of the firic 
War of the Romans with the Macedonians, and of the 
two Months Truce which Philip King of Macedon , and 
Father of Perfes, then demanded, and which he obtain’d, 
according to Salianus , the 4th Year ot the 145th Olym- 
piad, and the 196th Year before the Birth of our Lord, 
tells us, that this Ifland rofe up from the Bottom of the 
Sea this very Year after an Earthquake. His Words are 
thefe. Eodcm anno inter lnful as Theramenent & Thera » 
flam, medio ntriufqne rip £ & marts /patio , terr£ motus fuit ^ 
in quo, cum admiratione navigantinm , repent e ex projundo 
cum calidis aquis infula emerflt. 
It became half as big again, in the Year of cur Lord 
726, by the joyning of another Ifland to it 5 which, ac- 
cording to the Evelation of Thedphanes , a Greek Author, 
cited by Baronins, rofe alfo out of the Sea, and railed 
itfelf exaftly to the fame height as the Ifland Hiera, 
and united fo well to it, that at this time there remains 
no other mark of its joyning, than only a Cleft or 
FiiTure, which reaches from one end of the Ifland to 
the 
