which HAVk rhem from the r#a. £)9 
ocp. ® slated that similar eruptions of islands hare 
the group of the Azores. Thus, in December 
Cgfj ' ®^*olent earthquake was ftlt on the island of Ter- 
“PtttniT following morning a new island, which had 
hu„. * “P 'll the night, made its appearance, and ejected a 
'^“’'■'tiin of smoke. The pilot of a ship, who at- 
iipproach it, sounded on one of these newly- 
fiijd '"lands, with a line of sixty fathoms, but could not 
t'nt»(.*i On the opposite side, the sea was deeply 
'^as V I'arious colours, white, blue, and green ; and 
pej(.j shallow. 'I'his island was larger on its first ap- 
some distance of time afterwards j it at 
low beneath the level of the sea, and is now no 
.f^J.V'sible. 
the can be more surprising,” observes the author of 
" account, “ than to see fire, not only force its 
" for q bowels of the earth, but likewise make 
*' Catt'i^ ^ ^ passage through the waters of the sea ! What 
"oti ^ ^'ore extraordinary, or foreign to our common 
'* ‘he things, than to observe the bottom of the sea 
''fiiTti ^ ^ mountain above its surface, and become so 
*' Sfcau*' '"land as to be able to resist the violence of the 
*' pent '■ I know that subterraneous fires, wlien 
"earn "P '“1 a narrow passage, are able to elevate a mass of 
"in jQ l'»'ge as an island; but that this should be done 
"e;i ®tiil precise a manner, that the water of the 
" firnj ,'"^bl iioi; be able to penetrate and extinguish tho.se 
" seivjj > 'ifiei they should have exhausted them- 
^Saiii ’ ■ f '^^'■Ih should not fall down, or sink 
*^"Pe*'V 1 weight, but still remain in a manner 
‘fore's Rteat arch below— this seems to me 
' '“'ed of than any of the facts which havehecn re- 
In the Etna, Vesuvius, or any other volcano." 
the 'be Transactions of the Royal Society 
"v* Pttblisi*^ ^fP'f'tt Tillard, of the British Navy 
4*"onien interesting narrative of a similai 
^^orts, ^y’ '"'bich occurred in the same sea near tlie 
. A-pproj, 1 .f §b’e this narrative in his own words. 
.^tli of f‘fg the island of St. Michael's on Sunday the 
one 
f®t 1 , in his Majesty’s sloop Sabrina, under 
‘f’ We occasionally obsierved, rising in the hori- 
thtee columns of smoke, such as would havq 
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