Etna : a history of the mountain and of its eruptions . ETNA. A HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN AND OF ITS ERUPTIONS. CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN. Position.—Name.—Mention of Etna by early writers.—Pindar.— iEschylus. — Thucydides. — Virgil. — Strabo. —Lucretius.—Lucilius Junior.—Etna the home of early myths.—CardinalBembo.—Fazzello.—Filoteo.—Early Maps of the Mountain.—Hamilton.— Houel.— Brydone.—Ferrara.— Recupero.—CaptainSmyth.—Gemellaro; his Map of Etna.—Elie de Beaumont.—Abich.—Hoffmann.—Von Waltershausens Atlas des Aetna.—Lyell.—Map of the Italian Stato Maggiore.—Carlo Gemellaro.—Orazio Si
Etna : a history of the mountain and of its eruptions . ETNA. A HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN AND OF ITS ERUPTIONS. CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN. Position.—Name.—Mention of Etna by early writers.—Pindar.— iEschylus. — Thucydides. — Virgil. — Strabo. —Lucretius.—Lucilius Junior.—Etna the home of early myths.—CardinalBembo.—Fazzello.—Filoteo.—Early Maps of the Mountain.—Hamilton.— Houel.— Brydone.—Ferrara.— Recupero.—CaptainSmyth.—Gemellaro; his Map of Etna.—Elie de Beaumont.—Abich.—Hoffmann.—Von Waltershausens Atlas des Aetna.—Lyell.—Map of the Italian Stato Maggiore.—Carlo Gemellaro.—Orazio Silvestri. The principal mountain chain of Sicily skirts theWorth and a portion of the North-eastern coast, andwould appear to be a prolongation of the inferior group passes through the centre of theisland, diverging towards the South, as it approachesthe East coast. Between the two ranges, and completely H ETNA. separated from them by the valleys of the Alcantaraand the Simeto, stan
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