Alburkan — the fire-vent of Sicily

al-Mas'udi describes the island known as al-Burkan as "the Atma", that is, the spring of fire that gushes from the earth. ¹

He reports that bodies of fire come out of it like the bodies of people without heads, rising into the air at night and then falling into the sea and floating on the water. These are the light white stones with which writing is erased from notebooks. In it is the grave of Porphyry, the author of the Isagoge. ¹