Matters flood thus, till the 10th of July; on which day I was upon the island, with feveral other perfons. The earth was cold, the sea calm, and all things perfectly quiet. I took this day the measure of the circumference of the island, which was one mile wanting three furlongs. The fhore was all the way gradually shelving off, and the island all of a whitifh grey colour, and very uneven, being full of small rough hillocks, and broken rocks. For two days more we thought ourselves in the fame fecurity; but on the 12th at night we heard a roaring of the fea, that roused every body out of their fleep. We were all up; but though the fea made this noife, and washed in monftrous waves against the fhore, there was all this while, no wind ftirring. Our terror now was not to be expreffed; or how we wished for day light.

As foon as day light appeared, nothing could make a more dreadful appearance than the Shores of Santerini. The fea was rushing in upon us, foaming and roaring, of a thousand colours and mountains high, though there was fcarce any wind. About feven o'clock this a little abated, and we might then fee that minerals of a thousand forts were washed about among the waves, fome natural, fome plainly fcorched and burnt, as they were thrown up out of the bottom of the earth. About eight there was one prodigious roar of the sea; it all rose up in billows like mountains in an inftant, all foaming and looking of a gold colour. This ceafed in a few minutes, and we then faw the occafion of it; the whole fhore was in a manner, covered with lumps of brown, green, and yellow brimflone, and the fea feemed full of it. All this while the calmeft moments gave us no fight of the new ifland; and we concluded it was fwallowed up again.

Half an hour before noon another dreadful fwelling of the sea came on, much more terrible than before. A vast quantity of brimftone was again thrown up; and a fmell of fulphur fo ftrong, that we could fcarce breathe, attended with a heat very exceflive. The fhore was, in a moment after, coveted with

dead

dead fish of vast sizes. We all now fell down to pray, expecting that we should be swallowed up in a lake of fire, every moment, by the earth opening under our feet.

This day we either felt several shocks of an earthquake, or elfe our fears made us think we did. I profefs my own terror was fuch, that I could not distinguish which of thefe was the cafe. On the twelfth, the immenfe rifing of the fea decreased, and we got fight again of our new ifland, which was no way altered. The fea, though calmer than before, now bubbled up as high as a small house, in some places. This and the stench and heat continued, though in a more remifs degree, for three days.

Custom had now made this lefs terrible to us; but on the 16th at feven in the evening, we were alarmed again; and called down to the fhore by fome perfons who brought us word, that the earth was rifing out of the fea in another place. We all ran to the fhore, and to our terror and aftonishment, faw a ridge of tall and ragged rocks rife gradually, one or two at a time, between the new ifland and the leffer Cameny. There arofe at length twenty-fix of thefe, which now joined the new ifland to that land.

On the 17th, when we rofe, we found these rocks in creased in number; and many of them four times as large as before. The leffer Cameny, and the new island were now one land. On the 18th, which was Sunday, the people were gazing by times in the morning at this new prodigy. But, what was our terror now to behold the new ifland thake the newly rifen rocks; many of which fell down again into the fea; and a dreadful murmuring was heard under ground, as if at a vaft depth and diftance. Afterwards it grew much louder, and ended in a crack like that of thunder. We all now looked towards the new ifland; and faw a thick black fmoke rife in a prodigious volume in the middle of it. The noife was foon after repeated louder than before, and the fmoke increased upon it.

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We now all gave ourfelves up for loft, expecting to fee fire every moment, and that we should be deftroyed by it. Toward the evening of this day, as we were looking at the smoke, the laft formed rocks feparated themfelves, with a dreadful noife from the new Ifland, and the leffer Cameny, and approaching one another, met witth a horrid crack, a noise not to be defcribed, or conceived by any but thofe who heard it, and formed a fecond land. The fmoke now daily increased, and at length, on the 18th, in the night, the file appeared Tais was preceded by no fhock, and came on gradually; and daylight appearing, it faded, and was not diftinguishable among the fmoke. We, who had feen it in the night, could indeed difcern it; but the reft, who had not been up would not be lieve it, nor could at all fee the fire. At night however, all were convinced, we had told them the truth. The fire now might be feen too plainly and fure nature never afforded fo terrible a profpect. The whole Iland was covered with flames; yet thefe did not break up all over the furface, but in vaft males and pillars of flame in different places; fome of thefe were fiery red, and fome white, and others all blue.

This night and the next morning, all grew more terrible than before; the boiling of the fea continued, and grew doubly violent; and moft terrible roarings were heard from its bottom. Whole fheets of fire fell into the fea at once, with terrible noifes, and the Ifland rofe and increased in bulk at every shock. Now we began to feel the moft terrible effects of this eruption: the earth trembled under our feet; noifes more loud and dreadful than thunder, burft continually on our ears: the fea foamed with brimflone, and a thoufand other frange productions; and the fench of the fulphur grew more and more violent. One vaft burst was now heard, and the new Ifland was feen to be covered with blue fire, and to rife perpendicularly a great height, and fink again feveral times; and at length came a fecond burft. What was the effect of this on the Ifland we know not; for we felt a fcorching heat, and were all ftruck VOL. XIV.

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down, the fmell of fulphur being now fuch, that there was no breathing. We all gave ourselves over for loft, and how we escaped I know not; for when we came to look about us, all our trees had their leaves turned yellow; and all the fruit in the Island was burnt up and deftroyed, and our clothes and every thing else covered with grey duft, fmelling ftrongly of brimstone.

We were awakened from our horrors a few hours afterwards by new, and if possible, fill greater terrors. A noife like the discharge of a thousand cannon at once was heard. A dreadful burft of flame was feen from the midft of the Island; and immediately after a thick pillar of dreadful black fmoke; and from the midft of this, there were toffed up into the air multitudes of red hot flones of vaft fizes. These were carried up to fuch a height, that our eyes could scarcely follow; and foon after defcended again more fwiftly, and fell red hot and hifling into the fea. Some fell very near our fhores; and many at vast distances another way.

A continual repetition of this was now the cafe every day for three weeks. The heat became fcarce fupportable, and we were fainting with the fmell; and expecting every moment to be buried under loads of these burning ruins. The whole new fland was now frequently covered with them; and feemed one vaft bed of red hot iron. Sometimes clouds of ashes were toffed up, and when the wind fet towards us, fell on our shores, and covered them with fheets of fire. The last fhock, which was not till the middle of Auguft, threw up a whole rock, of an immense fize, into the air, which fell with a roaring not to be conceived, into the fea. This gave a large vent for the fire, which now blazed principally at that hole, and to a vaft height; and now the Iflands by degrees approached one another, and finally joined firmly together and

became one land.

In the beginning of September, the fire abated, the noise became lefs violent, and all continued to mend. The fmoke

however,

however, and fome fire continued inceffantly, during all the months of October, November, and December. In January all feemed quiet; and in the middle of that month, a boat went off with four people, who were hardy enough to intend to land upon it; but they all perished; the heat of the water, as they approached the Island, melting off the pitch of the boat, and letting in water at every part at once. We dare not go near to take its dimenfions; but at this time, January 23, it feems about three quarters of a mile long, and ftands with a very high fhore from the sea.

An Extract from the Rev. Mr. KENNEDY'S CHRONOLOGY, [Continued from page 441.]

JESU

ESUS did not eat the legal paffover with his disciples, the night in which he was betrayed.

1. When the first day of unleavened bread was cɔme; (in other words, at fix o'clock in the evening, or in the beginning of the 14th day of the month, full one and twenty hours before the pafchal lamb was flain) Jefus fent two of his disciples, Peter and John, to Jerufalem.

2. When these two difciples were fent away, Jefus himself, with the other difciples, left Bethany, and entered the upper room, in which they fupped together, as yours, when it was paft fix, but how much before or after feven o'clock in the evening, we cannot determine.

3. When Judas went out of the guest-chamber, with a full purpose to betray Jesus, wέ w, it was night, says St. John, xiii. 30. that is, it was paft nine o'clock at night, and before midnight.

4. After Judas was gone out, Jefus continued fometime in the guest-chamber, and held a difcourfe with his eleven difciples, (John xiv.) at the clofe of which, he faid, ver. 31. Arife, let us go hence.