Now, a mountain called "Baghlatha" appears to me to be a distortion of "Jabal" (mountain). It is an Arabic word introduced by the Muslims to this island and applied to this mountain. Some of its features remain to this day, while the pronunciation has been corrupted by the people of this island. This mountain is a "Jabal Nar" (fire mountain), as smoke emerges from it during the day and flames at night. It may also eject burning stony materials. The "Jibal Nar" are also called in the African language "Jibal al-Balkhawiyyah" (Balkhawi mountains), and the fire mountain is called "La'kan" with a damma on the baa and a sukoon on the lam. This name has been corrupted in Arabic to "Burkan" (volcano) with a raa. It also has an Arabic translation from the language of the people of Andalusia, where it is called "Tahha" with a fatha on the taa and a sukoon on the haa, as mentioned by Al-Masudi in his book "Muruj al-Dhahab" (Meadows of Gold). The mouth of the volcano is called in French "Crater" with a kasra on the kaf and taa, and a fatha on the second raa. Fire mountains are generally found only in islands. The scholars who observed this mountain have stated that its height above sea level is nineteen hundred and three feet, and the circumference of its base is about fifty-five French leagues, and the circumference of its crater is a quarter of a league. It is customary for a fire mountain to erupt, then become dormant, then erupt again. It remained extinguished for a period until people completely forgot about it, then it erupted again after several years. This mountain has erupted thirty-one times, including its eruption in the year 1809 according to the French calendar. Its greatest eruption was in the year 793, when it destroyed the city of Kan and killed eighteen thousand people. The sign of a volcano's eruption is intense heat, tremors, and twisting underground, and the beginning or increase of smoking. Some physicians say that when we compare the events of earthquakes with the events of volcanoes, we see that these two events are manifestations of the same thing, which is the ether beneath the earth or what is accumulated within it. However, the effects of earthquakes are wider than