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confirm feveral ignorant Greeks in the ridiculous Opi- 
nion they had, that this New Illand was one of me 
Mouths of Hell$ fo that they did not fcruple to fay, 
that the Devils, not being able to bear that Day, as be- 
ing jealous of the Glory of the Refu-reftion of our 
Lord, had made all the Efforts that Day that was pof- 
fible: And their Bilhop himfelf was lo infatuated with 
this Opinion, as well as the reft, that he fpoke to me 
very ferioudy about it, and asked me my Thoughts of 
it: But not^ithftanding whatfo.ver I could fay to un- 
deceive him, I found that he perfifted in his Opinion, 
and would not be perfwtded other wife. 
From the 15th of April to the 23d of May, which 
was a Year from the Birth of this New Ifiand, what I 
have defcribed above, continued the fame ; and I did 
not obferve any thing more in particular unlefs it were 
that the Ifiand increafed in Height and not in Length } 
and that one furious Clap beat down at once all the 
top of it } which by means of the Allies and Stones 
ot all fizes that fell upon it Day and Night, was not 
only repaired, but made much higher than it was be- 
fore. All particulars began to abate afterwards : The 
Smoak decreafed $ the Subterraneous Noife was riot fo 
violent } and the Claps, tho’ they were very frequent, 
were not however fo loud, by reafon that the Funnels, 
which gave a PafTage ro the Fire and Smoak ? were then 
much larger than they were before. 
Hitherto 1 had not been to fee this Ifiand, but at a 
diftance } for fear the fame fhould happen to me, as to 
Pliny, when he went to fee Mount Vefitvius ; and leaft 
1 Ihould be fuftbeated, as he was, with the Flames, or 
over-whelm’d with the Stones which this New Ifiand 
threw out on every fide. But feeing that there was 
then no danger, • went in company with the Reverend 
Francis Crifpo , the / atin Bilhop of Santorini ; who, as 
well as myfelf, had not feen it before but a diftance, 
and 
