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gave a full ProfpeA of the Crater, which, as I could 
judge, is about a Mile in Circumference, and an Hun- 
dred Yards deep. A conical Mount, had been formed 
fince my laft Vifit, in the middle of the Bottom. This 
Mount I could fee was made of . the Stones thrown up 
and fallen back again into the Crater- In this new Hill 
remained the two Mouths or Furnaces already mention’d ; 
that on oar Left Hand was in the Vertex of the Hill, 
which it had formed round it, and raged more vio- 
lently than before, throwing up every three or four 
Minutes, with a dreadful Bellowing, a vaft Number of 
red-hot Stones^ fometimes in appearance above a r hou» 
fand, and at lead 300 Foot higher than my Head as 
1 ftood upon the Brink. But there being little or no 
Wind, they fell back perpendicularly into the Crater , 
incrcafing the conical Hill. The other Mouth to the ' 
Right was lower in the fide of the fame new formed 
Hill. I cou’d difeern it to be Hlfd with red hoc li.« 
quid Matter, like that in the Furnace of a Glafs-Houfe, 
which raged and wrought as the Waves of the Sea^. 
caufing a (hort abrupt Noife like what may be ima- 
gin’d to proceed from a Sea of Quickfilver dafhing a- 
mong uneven Rocks This Stuff wou’d fometimes fpew . 
over and run down the convex fide of the conical Hill, 
and appearing at hrft red-hoc, it changed Colour4 and 
harden’d as it cool’d, fhewing the firft Rudiments of an 
Eruption, or, if I may fo fay, an Eruption in Minia- 
ture. Had the Wind driven in our Faces, we had been 
in no fmall Danger of flifling by the fulphurous Smoak or 
being knocked on the Head by Lumps of molten Minerals, 
which we faw had fometimes fallen on the Brink of the 
Crater^ upon chofe Shots from the Gulf at Bottom. But 
as the Wind was favourable, I had an. opportunity to 
fuKvey this odd Scene for above an Hour and a h ill 
together; 
