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Through the Colmims of Smoak was a continued 
Lightning, the moll beautiful Sight imaginable. 
The following Day iJVednefiay) we let out again 
to viewThe Wcft-fide of the Mountain at Torre del 
Grejo, Eight Miles from hence j where we heard, 
that the great Lava had Hopped at the Church of the 
Carmelites, but not without carrying Part of it away : 
Yet the People were fuperftitious enough to think this 
Stop miraculous j though it made a great Breach on 
one Side, broke down and quite demoliihed their 
Sacrifty, befides cracking the Roof. This Lava had 
from the Declivity taken the Water-courfe, which 
was the Prefervation of the Country from being 
drowned (and the People had bell look to them- 
felvcs, unlefs they make another). 1 his Hollow, 
which was for fomc Miles between Thirty and Forty 
Feet deep, and as many wide, was not only filled up, 
but the Matter rofe as many Feet above the Surface of 
the Land about it: We walked to view it on one 
Side, but the Heat was fo intenfe, and the fulphureous 
Stench fo fuffocating, that we were obliged to keep 
at a good Difiance ; and I was well informed by 
fcveral, that it continued very hot a Month or five 
Weeks after i fo long in cooling is that great Quan- 
tity of bituminous and metallic Matter, with which 
this Vomes is loaded. 
As the Fury of the Expulfion and Explolion was 
much abated on Tuefday Morning, the Stop here 
was about Four o'Clock that Day in the Afternoon; 
which might be the more eafily conceived, when no i 
more of this vaft metallic Matter was difeharged, and 
the Motion of all the reft was relented, for want of 
more Protrufion, and the Bitumen growing a little 
cooler. 
