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could not yet be feen from the Mountain Merovigfi , or 
the Caftle of Scaro, which ftands upon the Shore, by 
reafon the Lefier Kammeni, above mentioned, lay be- 
tween, and hinder’d the fight: But ac 15 Days end, they 
began to fee it from Merovigli, and in a few Days after, 
from the Caftle of Scaro limited upon another Mountain, 
which, tho’ it be very high, in refpeft to the Sea, yet it 
is much lower than that of Merovigli, to which it joyns. 
From whence we may judge how much this New Ifiand 
grew in Height in a lew Days. 
As the motion, by which this Ifiand increafed every 
Day in Height, was fometimes equal, and at other times 
unequal, in refpett to all the Parts of fo great a Mafs 3 
fo it did not always rife equally on every fide. It of- 
ten*happ.ned, that while it grew in Height and Length 
on one fide, it funk down and decreafed on the other. 
I one Day faw a Rock rife out of the Sea, at 40 or 50 
Paces diftant from the Ifiand, which I continued to ob- 
ferve for 4 Diys together 3 at the end of which time it 
funk again into the Sea, and did not appear any more : 
Bur this was different from what happened to fome o- 
thers 5 which having dilappeared, at this did, they re- 
appeared again fome time after. 
The Lelfer Kammeni, which lies very near, was often 
Ihaken with the Motion which raifed this New Ifiand. 
From a ftnall Cleft, which we obferved upon the top of 
this little ifiand, fometimes Stones would break loofe 3 
which rolling down its fides into the Sea, would raife, 
as it were, a Cloud of Duft, which fome People took, 
to be Sruoak, but in reality it was not fo. 
At this time, the Sea, which is contained within 
the Gulf or Bay of Santorini , (everal times changed its 
Colour : At firft it appeared Green, afterwards Redifli, 
and fometime after of a Yellowilh Colour 3 with a 
Stink, which fpreading itfelf over great part of Santo - 
rini, made us imagine that this Colour proceeded from 
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