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ing : And ftill more on Sunday Night, when there 
conftantly appear'd a very great Smoak mix’d with 
Afhes and Stones 5 and the Neighbourhood felt fome 
Shocks, like thofe of a weak Earthquake. 
On Monday the 20th, at the 13 th Hour, the 
Mountain made fo loud an Explofion,- that the Shock 
was ftrongly felt not only in the Neighbourhood, 
but alfo in the Cities twelve Miles round. Black 
Smoak, intermixt with Aihes, was feen fuddenly to 
rife in vaft curling Globes 5 which fpread wider, as 
it moved farther from the Bafon. The Explofions 
continued very loud and frequent all this Day, fhoot- 
ing up very large Stones through the thick Smoak 
and Alhes, about a Mile high, to the Horror of the 
Beholders, and Danger of all the neighbouring 
Buildings. 
At the 24th Hour of the fame Monday 20th of 
May^ amidft the Noife, and dreadful Shocks, the 
Mountain burft on the firft Plain, a Mile diftant 
obliquely from the Summit, and there iflued from 
the new Opening a vaft large Torrent of Fire j 
whence, by the (^antity of Fire inceflantly thrown 
up into the Air, at a Diftance all the South Side of 
the Mountain Teem’d in a Flame. The liquid Tor- 
rent flow’d out of the new Vent, rolling along the 
Plain underneath, which is above a Mile long, and 
near four Miles broad ; and in its Way it fpread very 
fpeedily near a Mile wide ; and by the fourth Hour 
of the Night, it reached the End of the Plain, and 
to the Foot of the low Hills fituate to the South. 
But as thefe Hills are rugged with Rocks, the greateft 
Part of the Torrent ran down the Declivities be- 
tween thefe Rocks, and into two Valleys i falling 
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