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It is faid, there was once a great earthquake in this 
ifland, and that The Rrimftone-hill took fire, and 
vomited afhes on all fides. This mountain then 
cleft in two ; but it is not faid what year this phe- 
nomenon happened. I am apt to think it was then, 
that this abyfs or precipice opened. Perhaps the 
Volcano having'been fired by lightning, the falls of the 
earth joined with the fifiphur produced the effect of 
gunpowder, and occafioned this dreadful earthquake. 
The mountain having fplit, caft forth afhes and ful- 
phureous matters all around, and from that time no 
earthquake has been felt in the ifland. 
Thefe phenomena are but too common in Italy, 
particularly in the kingdom of Naples ; and in other 
countries where there are Volcano’s, we are told of 
moft terrible difafters of this kind. In I ff6 a Vol- 
cano in the ifland of Java poured forth a torrent of 
melted and burning fulphur with fuch impetuofity, 
that ten thoufand perfons perifhed in three days. The 
fame year mount Guamanapi, in one of the Bandava 
iflands, made terrible havock ; the waters of the fea 
were heated to fuch a degree near the ifland, that 
the fifh were found ready boiled upon the flrand, but 
we don’t hear, that any of thofe mountains ever fplit 
in two like this. 
We cannot doubt of the dreadful effedls, which 
have been, and Hill are produced by earthquakes: 
witnefs the laft that happened at Jamaica, and now 
that of Lifbon. 
The abyfs I am fpeaking of, is in the middle of 
the flat, behind two crags or. points, that rife above 
the mountain, and on the North fide anfwers to the 
great cleft, which goes down above a thoufand feet 
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