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IV. Ablation of the New IJImd thrown up near the 
IJland o/Santerini 5 fent to the Marquis oj Fcrriol, 
Amlajfador Extraordinary of France at the Otto- 
man Port. Tahfn from the Memoirs of the Htftory. 
of Arts and Sciences at. TxcyouXj for the Motuhof 
July, 1708. 
^ Lor dry 
T his new Fh^nemenoNy that has appear’d in our 
‘part of the World, feems to us fo extraordinary 
and Curious, that I am perfwaded, a True and Parti- 
eular Relation of it will be very acceptable to your Ex- 
cellency ; in which'! fhall do my felf the Honour to write* 
at large, whatfoever I judgedTOoflr remarkable and- de- 
ferving your Notice. 
On Monday the 23d May ^ ^7^1 1 atSumrifing, we 
obferyed between the two Burnt IJ^ands^ commonly cak 
led the IJttle and Great Cameny^ as it' were a Floating 
Rock •, which we thought at firft had been -fame V elfcl' 
Shipwrack’d on that,Coaft, and' feem’d as if it would in 
a little time be dafh’d’to pieces againft the Lefer Came- 
ny^ that was hard by: On which account fome- Mari- 
ners, in hopes of Booty, put out, immediately to fee what 
it was. Soon after we- wero amazed to hear by ’em, 
that it was a Shoal v/hich began to fpring up from the» 
Bottom of the Sea; and was not as yet very plainly to 
be difcerned. Next day (the 24th) feveral Perfons, 
¥oth Ecdefiafticks and Seculars, went out of Curiofity 
to 
