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have been carried many trees, and whole jfkeletons 
of fea animals, to the height of 30 fathoms, or 
more, above the furface of the fea [above the com- 
mon water mark, or level] : from which our author 
judges, that, in the year 1 737, there happened, 
likewife, here [in this iiland] fuch an inundation as 
that at Kamtchatka. 
Earthquakes happen [here] feveral times in the 
year. The moil violent, that was obferved, was in 
the beginning of February, which, during a wefterly 
wind, iafted exactly fix minutes ; and before it was 
heard a noife, and a ftrong wind, under ground, 
with a hiding, which went from fouth to north. 
Among mineral things, which are found in that 
iiland, one may reckon, as the molt remarkable, the 
fine waters, which, upon account of their purenefs 
and lightnefs, are very wholfome : and this virtue of 
them was obferved upon lick people, with advantage, 
and the defired fatisfadtion. With regard to the plen- 
tifulnefs of them, there is not a valley but what has a 
flream running through it; and the number of them all 
together exceeds fixty ; among which there are fome, 
which are from 8 to 1 1 fathoms broad ; and fome 
are two, and fome even 5 fathoms deep, when the 
water is high ; but there are few fuch, and the greater 
part of them is extremely fhallow at the mouth ; be- 
caufe that they have a very rapid courfe, on account 
of the fteep dopes of the vallies, and that near the 
fea they divide into many rivulets. 
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