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the place where I had obferved it. It continued to 
fmoke fome days longer, more or lefs, according to 
the fabterraneous rumblings. 
When I returned to Cohres a fortnight after, I 
faw no frnoke j neither was there any fign of it, even 
when the noife was to be heard; but 1 could meet 
with no-body, who could inform me when the fmoke 
had ceafed. 
The 2 0th in the afternoon, being on the former 
fpot, I faw a fmall fog coming from the fea (from 
the fame quarter whence the fmoke appeared), which 
fmelt of fulphur ; and the wind returning to the 
eaft, the fog retired to the fea ; and in the morning 
of the lift, about nine o’clock, we felt two ftiocksof 
an earthquake fufficiently violent, but no more fmoke 
was feen. I cannot fay, whether the fame pheno- 
mena preceded the earthquake of the iith, becaufe I 
was not at the place, nor had I any-body there to 
make the obfervation. 
I went to examine the place, from whence I faw 
the fmoke arife, but I did not difcover from whence 
it could have iffued ; nor did I find any figns of fire 
near the place : from whence I infer, either that the 
fmoke exhaled from fome eruption or volcano in 
the fea, which the waters foon covered, or that, if it 
iffued from fome chafm in the land, it clofed after- 
wards. I rather incline to the former opinion, be- 
caufe it is natural, that the water fliould retire from 
the place of the eruption : befides, the fea having 
rifen in fome places, it is, probable, that it fell in 
others ; and indeed' it has vifibly retired there, for 
you m.ay walk on the dry ftiore ik)w, where before 
you could not wade.. And the fecond conjecture 
may 
