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“ ships, but is not so well authenticated as the 
f f former. 
“We have also some very indubitable accounts, 
“ partly by the relation of sailors, and partly by 
“ letters from Trondheim in Norway, that before 
“ the fire broke out in Iceland, there was a very 
remarkable eruption in the uninhabited parts of 
“ Greenland; and that in the northern parts of 
Iceland, opposite tp Greenland, the fire was 
“ visible a vast while. These accounts were 
“ strengthened by a letter from Iceland, bearing 
“ date the 21st of September; which says, that 
“ when the wind was north there fell a great 
“ quantity of ashes, pumice, and brimstone, upon 
“ the north and west coasts of Iceland ; and that 
this continued for the whole summer, when- 
“ ever the wind was in that quarter; and that 
“ the air was always very strongly impregnated 
“ with a brimstone smell, and thick smoke, 
“ But to return to Iceland. Ever since the 
“ first breaking out of the eruption, the whole 
“ atmosphere has been loaded with smoke, steam, 
“ and sulphureous vapors. The sun became at 
“ times wholly invisible, and, when it could be 
“ seen, was of a reddish or bloody color. The 
“ fisheries were most of them destroyed; for 
“ the banks where the fish used to be, were so 
