g4 1SI.ANPS WHICH HAYR HISEN MOM THE SEA' ^ 
their boats. Amid these motions and tremblings the 
increased, not only in height, but in length and br^ , 
still, occasionally, while it was raised and extended % 
one side, it sunk and diminished on the other. 
son to whom we are indebted for this narrative, obset j 
rock to rise out of the sea, forty or fifty paces 
island, which, having been thus visible for foil) jjc)! 
and appeared no more: several others appeared and % 
neared alternately, till at length they remained fix« « 
unmoved. In tlie mean time the colour of the suirod ^ 
sea was changed ; at first it was of a light green, thef 
dish, and afterwards of a pale yellow, accompanied^ ■ 
noisome stench, which spread itself over a part e 
Island of Santorini. 
ipd 
; On the l6th of July smoke first appeared, not , 
on the island, but issuing from a ridge of black 
on me isiauu, uui wouiug m/ii. u . iwg,. 
which suddenly rose about sixty paces fromit, wh^ 
depth of the sea was unfathomable. Thus there 
separate islands, one called the White, and the oth ^ 
Black Island, from the ditferent appearances they ‘ 
bited. This tliick smoke was of a whitish colour, hi' j 
. .. _ , r.j ... saiid^ 
of a lime-kiln, and was carried by the wind to 
where it penetrated the houses of the inhabitants. 
In the night between the igth and 20th of Jul)') 
began to issue with the smoke, to the great terror J 
inhabitants of Santorini, especially of those occ‘>^ 
the castle of Scaro, who were distant about a ^ 
half only from the burning island, which now 
very fast, large rocks daily springing up, which sold 
added to its length, and sometimes to its breadth'^ 
smoke also increased, and, there not being ddy J 
SniOKt; albU lucicadcu^ uuu^ liicic iitjv uuaaj^ ) C* 
ascended so high as to be seen at Candia, and d'*.' ^ 
tant islands. During the night, it resembled a col^^ ji 
A,. IaaI ,,, t,o,.vKl . It,,* epa t^*. / 
five, fifteen, or twenty feet in height j and the sea 
covered with a scurf or froth, in some places •-"'idr 
in others yellowish, from which proceeded such a 
that the inhabitants throughout the whole island o> i 
»mi burnt perfumes in their houses, and made fir®* 
streets, to prevent infection. This, indeed, did 
above a day or two ; for a strong gale of wind 
froth, but drove the smoke on the vineyards^of bad / 
by whicli the grapes were, in one night, parched '» 
