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was able to break out with a Ncife equal to that of fe- 
veral Cannons difcharged at once.- 
Attgujl 21. the Smoak deminifhed confiderably, asaho 
the Fire: There did not appear any in the Night 5 but 
the next Day both returned with greater force than at 
any rime before. The Smoak was reddi(h and very thick, 
and the Fire fo great, that the Water of the Sea fmoak’d 
and bubbled up all round the Black Ifland. I had in 
the Night rhe Curiofiry to view with a Telefcope the 
great Fire that appeared upon the Mountain of this 
Ifland, and I number’d 60 Openings or Funnels, which 
threw out all of them a very bright Fire, and were 
divided from one another by Rocks. In all probabi- 
lity there were others, and perhaps as many r on the o- 
ther fide of the Mountain, which I could not fee. Next 
Morning I obferved that the Ifland had been very much 
raifed in the Nighty that a Range of Rocks about 50 
Foot long was rofe out of the Water, which made the 
Ifland broader than it was before 3 and that the Sea was 
almoft covered over with the reddi/h froathy Matter, 
above-mentioned. This Matter, or Froth, appeared up- 
on the Sea every time that the Ifland increased confide- 
rably 5 and occafioned a ftink, much like that of the 
Sink of a Ship : Which we may imagine to arife from a 
flimy Earth mixed with Sulphur, which being raifed up 
with the Rocks, and coming to be wafhed off by the 
Waves, was loofened and diluted by the Water, and fo 
fo fent up to the Surface the Salts with which it was 
loaded. 
The Fire had hitherto appeared but only in one place, 
upon the Top of the Black Ifland $ but on the 5th of 
September it made itfelf another Paflage, and appeared 
at the End of that Ifland, on the fide next Terafia , which 
is another Ifland -which fome Authors fay was formerly 
joyned to that of Santorini, and was feparated from it 
by an Earthquake. The Fire did not continue at th s 
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