ed in Otober and November this Year, that fifty Hasbandmen miferably perihed there by, befides an innumerable multitudeof Birds, Sheep, Oxen and Affes; The like happened to nine Marriners, who paffing that way in their Ship by night, after three days were all found half burnt and were buried in the Ifland Nio threescore Miles from Santorin; But the other four months (for it flamed fix in all) though' that Hellish Hearth or Furnace abated much of its vigour and fierce heat, and could fcarce lift itself above the Waves, yet it ftill feemed to caft out Pumice ftones, and to be labouring to forma new Ifland, which though it does not yet appear above Water yet in a calm Sea it is obferved to be very Thallow thereabout, the Water being in that place not above eight Cubits deep.

XLVIII. In 1657. The Spaniards felt a terrible blow in Peru, which if it were not a Mark of the Wrath of Heaven, (faith my Author,) was at leaf a Sign that the Earth is weary of them, efpecially in thofe parts where they have stained it with fo much innocent blood. The City of Lima was fwallowed up by an Eaarthquake, and Calao another City not far from it, was confumed by a fhower of Fire out of the Clouds, eleven thousand Spaniards loft their lives in this calamity, and the Earth devoured an hundred Millions of refinedSilver, which the lucre of the Spaniards had forced out of its

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Bowels. All the Mountains of Potofi from whence they dug their choiceft metal were levelled with the Plain, and no more hopes of Gold was left to their infatiable avarice. XLIX. In 1660 an Earthquake happened at Paris in France, and at the fame time they had news that part of the Pyrenean Mountains had been overthrown fome days before; They are certain Mountains that divide France, and Spain; it did great mifchief there, overwhelming fome Medicinal Baths, many Houfes, and deftroying hundreds of People, only one Church which funk into the Caverns below was thrown up again, and ftands very firm, but in another place. This was looked upon as a great Miracle, efpecially by the French, who have difputed with the Spaniard about this Church as ftanding on the Frontier Line, but now is removed near half a League within the acknowledged limits of France.

L. In 1665. There was a great Tempest accompanied with Thunder, Lightning and an Earthquake in divers places in England, at which time the ftately Spire of TrinityChurch in Coventry fell down and demolished a great part of the Church. The next year Sir Rob. Holms deftroyed above one hundred and fifty fail of Dutch Ships at the Vy in Holland, and burnt the Town of Bandaris in the Ifland of Schelling, containing at least a thoufand Houfes.

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Sept. 2, about One a Clock in the Morning a fudden and lamentable Fire broke out in the City of London, beginning in a place called Pudding-lane, near New-Fill-Street which in four Days time burnt down thirteen thousand two hundred Houfes.

LI. In 1668. in Autumn, a great part of Afia, and fome parts of Europe were infefted with extraordinary Earthquakes; The Cities of Conftantinople and Adrianople felt its fad Effects, but not with that Violence and Continuance as in other Places. In fome parts of Perfia it continued for above fourfcore days; Torqueto and Bolio two confiderable Cities, were by its great violence laid even to the ground, and all or moft of the Inhabitants buried in the Ruins, above fix thousand Perfons perished in the firit of them, and above eighteen hundred in the latter; And in all the adjacent Cities it raged with extraordinary fury, deftroying and ruining the Buildings, killing many of the People, and the reft were forced to quit the Towns, and take up their Lodgings in the Fields. About the beginning of Auguft 1669. there came two Whales and a Grampus up the River of Thames, whereof one of the Whales and the Grampus were killed, and the other Whale which was the bigger, returned back into the Sea.

Lil. In 1669. there happened a moft dreadful Earthquake and Irruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, of which, before I gave a particular Account, it may not be unprope

to defcribe the Mountain itself, as it has been related by divers famcus Hiftorians; Etna or Mount Gibello, called by Pindar the Celestial Column or Pillar, is the higheft Mountain in Sicily, from whence all the Ifland may be feen at once, and in a clear day the Eye may even reach Africa; it rears up its Top or Spire thirty miles into the Sky, and may be feen forty or fifty miles at Sea, but its compafs is fixty, others fay an hundred miles fpace, it appears Eaftward with two fhoulders, having an eminent head in the middle, The lower parts are luxuriously fruitful, and the abundance of fat oily matter which is caft out of it, makes the Soil thereof as well as of the whole Iland Incredibly fruitful in the best Wine, Oil, Honey, Saffron, Minerals, alfo of Gold, Silver, Silks and Állom, with variety of excellent and delicious Fruits, and abundance of all forts of Grain, fo that it was called in old time, The Granary of the Roman Empire; The middle of the Mountain is woody and fhady, the upper part rocky, fleep, and almoft covered with Snow; yet fmoaking in the midst like many conjoyned Chimneys, and vomiting intermitted flames, ufually difcernable orly of a night, as if heat and cold had left their Contentions, and imbraced one another, for though it continually burns, with most fervent fmoak and fire, yet round about the top are seen perpetual and most deep fnows,

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the uppermoft top is broken and cragged with unstable Cinders and Pumice stones, and cleaves open with a moft vaft Crater or mouth twelve miles in compafs, which in a steep descent ftreightens itself narrower even to the bottom of Hell as it were; A moft horrible precipice it is, exceeding formidable with flames and fumes from the very bottom and fides of the Mountain, with an horrendous roaring and bellowing not unlike the buriting forth of Thunders, fo that the very imagination and thoughts of the Fire and Ruins fo nigh at hand, cannot but at firft fight amaze, and afright any human Creature, and make him tart from it, as from the infernal: Gulph of Hell; On one fide within are moft dark and dreadful Dens, one whereof is fo valt, as to be capable to contain thirtythoufand Men; in many Places you may fee the tracts and paths of huge Torrents of melted matter; in the very top, Snow and Athes, or Cinders, as if they had concluded an Eternal Wedlock, are feen to overwhelm all things with a fad and doleful countenance, which are very dangerous to unwary Visitors, becaufe under them there lye coconcealed deep holes, and devouring Galphs, without bottom or end, which have twallowed up very many, coming unadvifedly too near without a Guide, and by their ruin have left warnings to others not rafhly to venture upon the fe hid

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