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nothing elle but the Sulphur with which the Sea was 
covered. 
The Smoak appeared firft upon the 16th of July: At 
which time, from a place in the Sea, where (they aflured 
me) they could never before find any Bottom, and which 
was above 60 Paces diftant from the New Ifland (which 
they tiien called the White Ifland) there rofe up a Ridge 
of Black Stones, which the Greeks , by reafon of their 
hardnefs, call Sideropetres , or Iron-Stones, which formed 
another Ifland, named by the Inhabitants the Black Aland* 
and which was afterwards not only the Center of the 
■whole Ifland, but alfo of the Fire, and Smoak, and 
great Noife, that was heard fome time after. 
The Smoak, which iffued out of this Ridge of Stones, 
or Black Ifland, was very thick and white, as if it had 
proceeded from 5 or 6 Lime-Kilns joyned together * 
and being carried by a North Wind towards the Caftle 
of Acrotiri , it went into the Houfes of the Inhabitants, 
but without caufingany great artnoyance, becaufe it had 
no very ill Smell. Four Days after the Smoak bad thus 
appeared, they faw in the Night time Fire ifluing out 
from the fame place. 
It was then, that the Inhabitants of Santorini , and 
efpecially thofe of the Caftle of Scaro , began to be in 
good earneft afraid. They confidered that their Caftle 
was firuated upon a Promontory, that was very narrow, 
and near to the Black Ifland ; and that the time drew 
near, in which they muff expeft it either to be blown up 
into the Air, or overturn’d by fome Shock of the 
Earth. They had con-inually before their Eyes Fire 
and Smoak * and this dilmat Spectacle made them ap- 
prehend, that there might be feveral Mines of Vitriol 
and Sulphur in the Ifland of Santorini , which would 
Coon take Fire ^ and that therefore the faieft way for 
them was to abandon the Country, and retire to fome 
other Ifland, And indeed fome took this refolution * 
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