Duſt to fall on the Deck. With the ſaid Breeze he ſtood away for Tercera; and the Governor thereof informed him, that the Fire broke out Nov. 20, 1720, in the Night, and that, with prodigious Noiſe, it cauſed an Earthquake, which ſhattered ſeveral Houſes in the Town of Angra, and Places adjacent. Prodigious Quantities of Pumice Stones and half-broiled Fiſh, were found floating on the Sea for ſeveral Leagues round the Iſland, and Abundance of Sea Fowl hovering about it.
Mr. Forſter aforeſaid was informed by an Acquaintance of his, that in a Paſſage from Cadiz to London, the latter End of April, 1721, he obſerved the Sea from Cape-Finiſter almoſt to the Chops of the Channel, covered with Pumice Stones; ſome of which, being taken up by him, were preſented to Mr. Forſter, as a Curioſity.
The Iſlands of Scilly, by Tradition, being once joined to the County of Cornwall, and their Separation from that Land being now no more than the Diſtance of 30 Miles, having ſtill a Connection in their
