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AN ACCOUNT

OF TWO

GREAT and DREADFUL

Volcanic Eruptions, &c.

Eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, l699.

MANY ſtriking remains of the great eruption in 1669 are ſtill to be ſeen, and will long continue 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 length a rent, twelve miles in length, was opened the mountain, in ſome places of which, when they threw down ſtones, they could not hear them