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APPENDIX. C. 
which is accompanied by two curious and in¬ 
teresting charts of the country surrounding the 
volcano, the one representing the face of it pre¬ 
viously, and the other subsequently, to the erup¬ 
tion. Farther information by the same author 
was given in one of the two works mentioned at 
page 228 of this journal; but of the circum¬ 
stances there related I can now only recollect 
with certainty that the number of inhabitants, 
who perished in consequence of the eruption, 
amounted to nine thousand, not all by the fire 
or fall of ashes, &c., but the greater part ab¬ 
solutely by starvation ; all vegetation, the sup¬ 
port of their cattle, being destroyed, and, to 
add to their state of wretchedness, the fish 
driven from the coasts. I shall avail myself of 
a translation of the above-mentioned Danish 
pamphlet, which is inserted in the Introduction 
to Pennant's Arctic Zoology , (page cccxxi.) 
“ Upon the 1st of June, 1783, there was ob- 
“ served a trembling or shaking of the earth, in 
“ the western part of the province of Shaptarjiall , 
“ which increased more and more until the 11th. 
“ It was so great that the inhabitants were under 
“ the necessity of quitting their houses, and lying 
“ at night in tents upon the open ground. All 
“ this time there was observed a continual smoke 
