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my (elf. They who have a more^mprehensive knowledge of all the That*

0rn ena , may give a better account.

Out as for those Earthquakes that are oc-g a ' 0 ned by the burnings of Fulcano’s , they• e > I conceive, of a different nature. ForOtem the fire burns continually, and isr eVer totally extinct, only after the great e-. u Phons, in which, besides smoke and fire,

£ lere is an ejection of abundance of Allies,at }d, Earth, Stones, and in some floods fe ked Materials, the raging is for a timejj^lified ; but the fire still continuing, andy degrees increasing in the combustiblefatter it finds in the hollows of the Moun-ts, at last swells to that excess, that itdown Metals and Minerals where itee ts with them, causing them to boil with^ Cat fury, and extending it self beyond the.‘tensions of the Cavities wherein it is con-kjf ne d, causes great fuccussions and trem-of the Earth, and huge eruptions ofe ^°ke, and casts out such quantities of Afh-e 7 ^snd and Stones as we just now mention-t > ' and after much thunder and roaring byg ? Elision and repercussion of the flame a-^ and front the sides of the Caverns,e j C ‘die ebullition and volutation ofthemelt-t Materials, it forces out that boiling mat-r Zither at the old mouths, or at new ones,

which