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Wood is Changed since the Earthquake , into a great and Open Field, whollyDestitute of Trees, the Surface of the Ground being Covered with a RedClay such as the Masons use here ; which in forne places was so hard that itcould endure Treading and going upon it, and in other places Men didSink above a Foot into it. At the Place of the Old Court called FakowangSituated between the Batavian and Tangar ang Rivers, no other Damage bathbeen seen, than that the Land thereabouts bath been Rent and Divided a-sonder with great Clefts more than a Foot wide. The River Tfccwe, pro-cceding from a Pit or Well in the aforefaid Court of Packowang, andrunning a great way under Ground, and then coming Forth again, ta-king its Course towards sinke, bad not reeeived any Harm : But kept itsCourse uninterrupted.

The Tommagon Porbo Nata in bis Going towards the Mountains, Heard aNoije like unto Thunder; and Fearing that a Sinking down of the Ground, oran Eruption of Warer would Follow, he stood still with those that were abouthim, and säw afterwards that the Eartb from the Top of the Mountains Sunkdown ; and Hearing no further Noije, he went on hisjourney, having in Go-ing and Corning back spent 19 Days by the Way, and feit 40 times an Earth-quake: And since bis Return from the Mountains, he bath feit the like S ha hinge208 times.

The Causeof XXU. 1 have elsewhere fhewn that the Breatb of the Fjrites is Sulphur ex

Earthquakes > tota Subfiantia ■ Also that it naturally Takes Fire of it seifAgain that thetj^ür U Marc°^' Material Cause of Thunder and Lightning, and of Earthquakes is One and theLater, n. IJ7. sime; viz. the htflamable Breatb of the Fjrites ; the Difference is, that one£>f 5 A»r Med FireJ in the Air, the other Under Ground : Of which last, these (IAngi, ' ' thinkj are sufficient Arguments; A Thing burnt with Lightning■ Smells of

very Brimstone ; again the Subrilty and Thinnels of the tlame ; alsothe Männer of its Burning, which is often observed to be particulatimor in small Spots, Vapour like. And of Earthquakes, the Sulphure- •ous Stink of Waters (hielt before, and of the very Air it seif alterthem : Of which innumerable instances occur in the Relations of.rliem.

They also Agree in the inanntr of the Noife,. which is to be carried on, as>in a Train Fird ; the one Kowiing and Ratling through ihe Air, taking/•••» as the Vapours-chance to Drive; as the other Fir d Under Groundin like manner Moves with Delultory Noije, as.it (hall chance to be.eontinued.

That the Ennii is more or lest Hollow is made probable, by what is found-every '/.herein the Mountains; vix. Natural Cavities or Chambers, which.the Miners of the North call Seif Opins. 1 liefe they meet with frequently,some vallly Girat, and others less, running away with, Small Sinus's: AndJ doubt nor, but upon diligent irquiry, a great Catalogue of such might bcbad, dilcovertd in the Memory ot Man. Belides, many there are, which are.k-nown to open to the Day, und to diseover themselves without Digging, asPools Hole, Okif-Ho! ?, &c, Again, the Great and Small Strejims, which do>

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