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other portion remaining very large and red, with half of a fmaller
orb beneath it, and feparate, but in the fame direftion, the circular
rim approaching the line of its diameter. Thefe two by
degrees united, and then changed rapidly into different figures,
until the refemblance was that of a capacious punch-bowl inverted.
The rim of the bottom extending upward, and the
body lengthening below, it became a mufhroom on a Ralk,
with a round head. It was next metamorphofed into a flaming
cauldron, of which the lid, riling up, dwelled nearly into an
orb, and vanifhed. The other portion put on feveral uncircular
forms, and after many twinklings and faint glimmerings flowly
difappeared, quite red; leaving the clouds, hanging over the
dark rocks on the Barbary fhore finely tinged, of a vivid bloody
hue.
A nd here we may recoiled!, that the antients had various
Rories concerning the letting of the fun in the atlantic ocean j
as for inflance, that it was accompanied with a noife, as of the
fea hilling, and that night immediately followed. That its magnitude
in going down apparently increafed, was a popular remark,
but had been eontradidled by an author, who obferved
thirty evenings at Gades, and never perceived any augmentation.
One writer had affirmed, that the orb-became an hundred
times bigger than its common fize.
T his phenomenon will vary, as it depends on the Rate of
the atmofphere. It is likely to be moft remarkable when wefl-
erly winds have prevailed for fome time; thefe coming over the
atlantic ocean, and bringing with them the grofs vapours, which
arife continually, or are exhaled, from that immenfe body of
wafer.
C H A P.
C H A P . II .
Voyage to Genoa — Manner o f fijhing in the Mole —
Arrive at Leghorn.
T H E Anglicana being freighted for Genoa and Leghorn,
we now fhaped our courfe for the former port. We were becalmed
near the coaff of Spain, off Cape de Gatte. We then
had heavy fhowers and hard gales, by which we were driven out
of our way, and our malts endangered. Light airs and clear
weather followed j the fky blue and fpread with thin fleecy
clouds. We had a view of feveral Spanilh towns, and of St.
Philip’s cable in the ifland of Minorca. We found the days
lengthen as we advanced northward j and the wind, with a
bright fun, very cold, coming from the Alps. We flood for
Corfica with a briik gale and a great fwell, which took us on
the weather-fide. We flopped feveral feas, and toffed prodigi-
oufly. The gulf of Lyons equalled in turbulence the bay of
Bifcay.
W e were becalmed on the leventeenth of July off Cape de
Melle; and then had a fine gale, and approached Italy at the
rate of twelve miles an hour. The Pharos of Genoa appeared as
a tall pillar, the coaff pidturefque and mountainous, its Hopes
covered with white houfes, looking from the fea as one continued
city. We now regretted, that the evening was near, fearing
the land-breeze would fpring up, before we could get into
the mole. It became hazy along ihore, and the glorious prof-
pedt vaniflted. The breeze ceafed, and the veffel feemed without
motion. On one of the mountains a bright flame afcended £
and round about us, on the water, were feveral fires made by
fiffiermen in their boats, one of which we haled:
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