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at a place called Le Cremate, there is a crater, from 
which, in the year 1301 or 1302, a lava ran quite 
into the fea; there is not the leafl vegetation on this 
lava, but it is nearly in the fame ftate as the modern 
lavas of Vefiivius. Pontano, Maranti, and D. Fran- 
cefco Lombardi, have recorded this eruption j the 
latter of whom fays, that it lafted two months, that 
many men and beafts were killed by the explolion, 
and that a number of the inhabitants were obliged to 
feek for refuge at Naples and in the neighbouring 
iflands. In fliort, according to my idea, the ifland 
of Ifchia muft have taken its rife from the bottom of 
the fea, and been increafed to its prefent lize by di- 
vers later explofions. This is not extraordinary, 
when hiftory tells us (and from my own obfervation 
I have reafon to believe) that the Lipary iflands were 
formed in the like manner. There has been no 
eruption In Ifchia flnee that jufl: mentioned, but earth- 
quakes are very frequent there ; two years ago, as I' 
was told, they had a very conflderable Ihock of an; 
earthquake in this ifland. 
Father Goree’s, account of the formation of the 
new ifland in the Archipelago (fituated between the 
two iflands called Kammeni, and near that of San- 
torini) of which he was an eye-witnefs, flrongly 
confirms the probability of the conjedlures I venture 
to lend you, relative to the formation of thofe iflands 
and that part of the continent above deferibed : it 
feems likewife to confirm the accounts given by 
Strabo, Pliny, Juftin, and other ancient authors, of 
many iflands in the Archipelago, formerly called the 
Ciclades, having fprung up from the bottom of the 
fea in the like manner. According to Pliny, in the 
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