and Creation .

* vVa y’ f° r that there are many empty Cavi-les even under the Sea it self, appears by theslaking and heating too of the very Water° h’ea in some places in Earthquakes,and fifing up the borders or skirts of it, so3 l t0 ^ riVct he Water a great way back; andshe raising up new Islands in the middle of* ie Sea ; as Delos and Rhodes, and Anaphe ,snd Nea, and Alone , and Hiera , and TheraMentioned by P/iyy,HistIib.x.c.87.and Tina}h his own time; and Therafia in the Ægean*h Semcds time, which was heaved up inhe fight of many Mariners then present andlooking on.

* am not ignorant, that the learned Man| lately quoted, I mean Alfh. Borelliis, in hisDe Imendin Ætnœ, is of opinion, thatdie middle part, or as he calls it, the kernel ofthat Mountain is firm and solid, without anygreat caverns or vacuities, and that all thosefaults and cavities in which the sire ragesare near the sopersicial or cortical part: Andderides those who fancy that Ætna, the Æ-olian Islands, IJpara, Strovgyle , 8tc. and Ve-favius do communicate by subterraneouschannels and paslages running under thebottom of the Sea. But laving the respectto him for his learning and ingenuity,“ere is good Authority on their side , andf>Ur ratiocinations against the possibility of

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