The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-21 00:00:00

'AUL
Cash.

A New Volcano.

The following particulars are extracted front 3
private letter dated Sautorino, Feb. 1 :
" Persuaded you will be pleased to be informed
of the phenomena that are occurring in this island'
I here begin to relate them in form of a journal.
" The day before yesterday it was observed at
Nea Kameni, at the place called Volcano or Ca;
lauga (creek or cove), where vessels go to clean
their copper, and where there are some 25 house:
not occupied at this season of the year, that til
newly-made wharf on the shore of the sea 03t
,1
washes the two islands (Nea and Mikio KaineDl/
was cracked, and yesterday two or three of these
_
houses sunk a little in the sea, nearly all tbau
others, the hills in different places, and the groan
being all cracked, without earthquake or other
signs that usually occur in such cases, only tlio
water of the cove boiled ; but to-day, about."
a.m., four or five flames of fire appeared and JIB
appeared in a short space of time, and the sell in
the cove boiled more violently than yesterday,
much coloured matter was scattered all ole:
the bay, and the ground shook, only at different
times of the day. But the most curious thing
that two or three lakes of fresh water were baron
and towards about 4 p.m. one or two very slight
shocks of earthquake were felt in this island (S 5
torino.)

" Feb. 2.—The same boiling, coloured matter
ci
sinking down of houses continued also this day, and
at about from 6 to 7 p.m. fire-appeared in that place
and island, but the water of the before-mein
tioned lakes became salt water. The weather
yesterday and to-day was like spring, and not like
those of the season. of the year; calm and 041
wind from the north, and to-day from the 5011'...

west.
" Feb. 3. —Smoke issued from different park ad
the day, the boiling (a coloured matter) continue
as above, and the wind W.S.W.
" Feb. 4.—Matter issued forth with dense sinel'l3
all day, and began to form a hillock in the water
the cove with block stones, joining itself with l'*o
two parts of the island on the north and west a til
hillock ; and about 7 p.m. fire, as from a furnace'
issued from the said hillock, but after about half
hour the flames appeared and disappeared twice 'f
thrice in a short space of time on the new 511°Te i:a
the sea that washes the two islands (No flolt
Mikio Kameni). Fine weather and very' i
S.W. wind.
" Feb. s—Dense smoke continues, the h'—°c
41,0
lenghtens, widens, and rises higher ; the sea a the
began to boil most furiously, and the prerllv.";
tory of the cove called Calloyoros sank down x.`cti
or six metres, and at the same time as Icstcr;
evening the same flames appeared, but only ell:
hillock. the
" Behind the said island (Nea, Kameni), near.ro ..
cove of St. George (on the west side of No -1" of
meni), the sea also began to boil, and the
the sea that washes the two islands (Nea and 311
Kameni) sank lower. even'
" Feb. 6—The same smoke and fire in the e
ing as yesterday, and the hillock continues its cpure
rations. The sea, too, boils beyond the cove nic
than yesterday. Chino
,c Feb. 7—lt is 1 p.m. that I write, but no
extraordinary has yet happened, only the now uria
scribed phenomena, and the hillock, or land,
as the,e'
probably by to-morrow increase as far shore
trance to the cove, and be joined with its sides.