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…and three whole dayes, darting forth mighty stones into the City, with fumes caused such a darkeness, as high the Sun, and turned day into night. The Mountain Pico in the Island Timor, of such an height, that a flamy Spire or Pyramid was seen for three hundred miles in the Sea. This in the year 1638, had its very foundations shaken, by an horrible…
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