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ANY ſtriking remains of the great eruption in 1669 are ſtill to be ſeen, and will long as memorials of that dreadful event which overwhelmed Catania, and all the adjacent country. Tremendous earthquakes ſhook the iſland, and loud subterraneous bellowings were heard in the mountain. During ſome weeks, the ſun ceaſed to appear, and the day ſeemed changed into night. Borelli, who was a witneſs to theſe terrible phenomena, ſays, that at length a rent, twelve miles in length, was opened the mountain, in ſome places of which, when  threw down ſtones, they could not hear them