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than if fix or feveii Cannons had been difcharged to- 
gether : 'file Fire made it lelf evety Day more Vent- 
holes, and became more dreadiui.* We commonly 
fate up the greacefi: part of the Night to oblerve 
it. ^ 
Every Night Nature reprefented as great variety of 
Scenes, has the Fire broke forth in different Forms; 
iometimes burning Aflies I’pread themfelves in the Air, 
like a Fl' ii>e of Feathers, which faUing again on the 
Shoal, made it appear all of a light Fire. Other times 
one would think it was actually the difcharging of fo 
many Mortar pieces,* which threw- intire Rocks, like fo 
many Bombs, capable of deftroying the largeff Ships; 
tlio’ for the moft part, thele Stones were or a mid- 
dle fize, but in fuch Quantities, that I often faw this 
little Ifland all cover’d with them, and fo plealantly 
illummated, that one would never Jbe weary of looking 
on it. ‘ 
Thefe dreadful Diftharges were lefs frequent at the 
■ end of but increafed m'Segtember, were daily ' 
inO^ober^ and at this timearealmOft inceffantly. ’Tis I 
true, the Noife is not fo loud ^ the Stones, that are caff I 
up, are not fo big,, nor fo many-; the Boy ling and Dif- 
order of the 'Water is much abated ; the Sea begins to 
recover its former Colour y th« Stench, that was^be^ 
fore infupportable, has been very little' for thefe fix' 
Weeks. Aet the -Smoak grows every day thicker, 
blacker, and in greater abundance : The Fire is more 
than ever, and feems fometimes to ffrike the very 
Sky: The Subterraneous Noife is continual,, and fo 
violent, that it can’t be diftinguifli’d from Thunder : 
Duff and Allies fall daily on this our Ifland. The 
Countryman is dejeded at the Lpfs’of his Corn, 
' which icarce fprung out of the Ground, begins fo fade 
already : And the Mariner, not fo bold as before, 
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