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fcarce knew ’em again at my return ; fo dillercnt they 
were from what I left them. The White one,' that did 
not Teem to increale any more, w'as now grown confide- 
rably higher ; and the Black one was much longer. 
Both of them, tho’ different in colour, were now united 
together, and made but one Illand, as they remaui at 
this time. The Fire and Smoak had made new Vent- 
1 holes • and the noife under Ground was more frequent 
and audible. They told me, that in, my abfcnce they 
heard from the midft of the Ifland, as it were, fo ma- 
ny large Cannon fhot oft and at the fame inftant fa w 
a great quantity of Burning Stones thrown into the Air. 
I could fcarce Believe it at firft and tho’ I did not look 
on it as altogether improbable, yet I could not per- 
fwade my felf but that they had much exceeded the 
truth. But a few days after I was my felf an Eye-Wit- 
nefs of fo Prodigious and Frightful a SpeTacIe. I watch- 
ed Day and Night thefe furious Difeharges, which made 
the Doors and Windows of our Chambers fliake, and 
fometimes the very bell: built Houfes : And faw 
with my own Eyes, more than once, Stones all on 
Fire darted into the Ait out of fight, and after falEa-^ 
gain like a Bomb, and quench’d in the Sea at more than 
Eve Miles diftance. 
When thefe Difeharges happen’d, which were as loud 
asthofe of a Cannon, we commonly faw immediately 
a great Flaflh of Fire like Lightning ; and after that, 
there fprung up very fwiftly, a black and difmal Smoak, 
mixt with Afhes, and fo prodigioufly' thick, that when 
fpreadin the Air, it made a thick Cloud of feveral Co- 
lours*, which, by degrees, diffolving it felf in a fine 
Duft.. fell like Rain on all the Neighbouring Country, 
and ^more particularly on our Ifland, where it was in 
fuch* abundance, that the Ground was often covered 
with it. The Noife grew ifronger, and was louder 
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