. Italy; handbook for travellers. rongyleowing to its circular form, was regarded by the ancients as the seatof iEolus, the god of the winds, for which Pliny gives the some-what unsatisfactory reason, that the weather could be foretold threedays in advance from the smoke of the volcano. In the middleages Charles Martel was believed to have been banished into thecrater of Stromboli. Returning crusaders professed to have dis-tinctly heard the lamentations of tortured souls in purgatory, towhich this was said to be the entrance, imploring the intercessionof the monks of Cluny for their deliveranc
. Italy; handbook for travellers. rongyleowing to its circular form, was regarded by the ancients as the seatof iEolus, the god of the winds, for which Pliny gives the some-what unsatisfactory reason, that the weather could be foretold threedays in advance from the smoke of the volcano. In the middleages Charles Martel was believed to have been banished into thecrater of Stromboli. Returning crusaders professed to have dis-tinctly heard the lamentations of tortured souls in purgatory, towhich this was said to be the entrance, imploring the intercessionof the monks of Cluny for their deliverance. The cone of Strom-boli (3020 ft.) is one of the few volcanoes which are in a constantstate of activity. The crater lies to the N. of the highest peak ofthe island, and at remarkably brief intervals ejects showers ofstones, almost all of which again fall within the crater. Whenthe smoke is not too dense, the traveller may therefore approachthe brink and survey the interior without danger. I COJSTOEAI DI T I ?I V LIE IJMMjJ^i) A.
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