( lo; ) 
day, being Saturday^ we faw them plainer ; and thefe 
whofe Tops we could only fee the Night; before, now 
appeared extraordinary large. On, Sundxy we firh: per- 
ceived Smoak to break forth, much refembling, in thick- 
nefs and colour, that of a burning Furnace \ and at the 
£me time heard certain Murmurings under Ground, 
which feemed to proceed from the Center of this New 
Ifland, as yet too deep in the Sea, to be plainly diftki- • 
guiflied. 
Every Body then of both Sexes- were more frighted 
than ever, and thought of nothing, but liow they lliould 
llielter themfelvcs from the approaching Danger, and 
avoid die Fire that they forefaw in all likelihood W'ouid 
foon follow. Whole Families went for refuge to the 
neighbouring Wands; and others contented themfelves 
only with changing their Habitations, and living in the 
open Country, thinking themfelves Dfer there. In the . 
meantime the Rocks abovementioned united together, 
and feemed already to form another Wand diftind from 
the former. The Smoke appeared in greater abundance ; 
and the Fire, which w^c fo m iich dreaded, at lalf began . 
to break forth about the i9tli ol ,* It was fo little at 
firll, and of fo dull a colour,, that few believed it to be 
really fo ; but afterw^ardsiiicreafing by degrees as the. I- 
Iland increafed, and breaking out more and more, and in 
different Places, all were fuBiciently convinced of it. 
It wasnolefs frightful and amafing than curious, to 
fee every Night on the top of this Mount, that Nature 
had lately formed, a vaft number, as it were, of burning 
Furnaces, all of a bright Flame; in order and pofition 
not unlike thofe Illuminations of the Mimrets, which the 
Turks ufually make at certain times every Year. One 
Night at the end of "July, about an Hour after Sundec, 
as we were obferving the different of this 
New Ifland, there appear’d of a . hidden, in the middle 
