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the fifhermen from venturing upon it, without there being any 
vifible winds to make it fo. Our volcanoes too, as I am confi- 
dently aflured, emitted no eruptions for a confiderable time be- 
fore ; but there was an eruption of Etna in the firft earthquake, 
and Stromboli fhewed fome fire in the laft. God grant that 
the pillars of the earth may be again fattened, and the equili- 
brium of both natural and moral things rettored ! 
I have the honour to be, 
