THE
博惚郭唬插捧倏S:
OR,
Burning and Fire-vomiting Mountains,
Famous in the World:

With their Remarkables.

Collected for the most part out of KIRCHERS
Subterraneous World;

And exposd to more general view in English, upon the Relation
of the late Wonderful and Prodigious Eruption of AETNA.

Therby to occasion greater admirations of the Wonders of Na--
ture (and of the God of Nature) in the mighty Element of Fire.

Res semper aliquid apportat novi.


None sadlier knows the unresisted Ire,
Then Thou, Poor
London! Of thall- raging Fire.
But these occasiond kindlings are but Blazes,
To thmighty burnings, which fierce Nature raises.
If then a Town, or Hills blaze be so dire;
What will be th last, and universal Fire?


Licensed and Entred according to Order.


London, Printed by J. Darby, for John Allen; and are to sold by him at the White Horse in Wentworth Street near Bell Lane; and by Benjamin Billingsly at the Printing-Press in Broad-street near Gresham College, 1669.

The Vulcano's vintage first page image.

Table of Contents

Epistle to the Reader and Explication of the Schemes

Chapter 1. Of Subterraneous Fire-houses; That is, Abysses, or deep Storehouses of Fire: or, if you will, Aestuaries (that is, places overflown and raging with; or, as it were, Creeks of Fire) underground.

Chapter 2. Of the Volcanos or Ignovomous, that is Fire-vomiting Mountains in General.

Chapter 3. Of the Manifold Volcanos of Italy in Particular.

Chapter 4. Of the Remakables of Volcanos and their Eruptions in General.

Chapter 5. Of the Remarkables of the Volcanos of Italy, and their notorious Eruptions in particular, &c. Viz.
Of the Phlegraean Plains, or Volcanos Court.
Of the Mountain Vesuvious, &c

Chapter 6. Of the Prodigious and Wonderful Aetna in Special; and of the Vulcanian Islands adjoining
Aetnas Crater of Fire-Cup.
A Chronicle of Aetnas Fires, &c.
Of the Volcanellos; Strombolo, and Volcano, &c.
A sad story of a Spanish Priest, &c.
A foolish Story of Sir Thomas Gresham.