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ing his misfortune in fuch a Tone, and with luch Ex- 
prefSons of Grief and Amazement - , as rais’d at once both 
Pity and Laughter. 
Nor was this the only efFeft occafion’d by this thick 
Smoak $ for it is farther remarkable, that Silver and 
and Copper were changed black by it : And tho’ feme 
People, who were forced to pafs thro’ the Smoak in 
going to their Houfes, allured me, that it h^d no very 
ill fmel! with it; yet feveral of them were, that and the 
next Day after, troubled with great pains of their Head, 
Ac this time the White Ifland, which (a9 I have* faid 
before) ftemed to be above the Lefler Kammeni, and 
could be feen from the firft Floor of the Houfes in the 
Gaffle of Scaroy funk down fo low, that it could not be 
feen from the fecond. 
Hitherto the Sea had not been obferved to boil up, 
or any Noife heard upon the Black Ifland : But upon 
the 51ft of Jn'y, the Sea was feen to emit Smoak at two 
feveral Places, one of which was about 50, and the o- 
ther above 60 Paces diftant from the Ifland. In thefe 
two places, both of which were perfe&ly round, the 
Water of the Sea looked like Oyl, and feemed to rife 
up and bubble : Which is continued to do for more 
than a Month 5 in which time there were a great many 
Fifhes found dead on the Shore, occafioned by their hap- 
pening to have been too near thefe two Places. 
The Night following there was heard a dull hollow 
Noife, much like that of feveral Cannons fhot off at a 
diflance: And at the fame time there was feen to rife 
out of the midft of the Funnel Flames of Fire, which 
darted very h’gh into the Air, and difappeared imme- 
diately. Next Day there was heard feveral Returns of 
the fame Noife, which, was followed by a Smoak, not 
white, as ufual, but blackifh ^ and which, notwithftand- 
ing a very frefh North Wind, rofe up in a Moment to 
a prodigious Height, in form of a Column, and in the 
Night 
