II.—Contributions to the Study of Volcanos

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During the earliest periods concerning which we have historical records in Southern Europe, Vesuvius was certainly inactive, its true character, indeed, long remaining wholly unsuspected; nor do the eruptions of Etna at this epoch appear to have been of such a character as to have powerfully arrested the attention and excited the imaginations of the oldest inhabitants of the district. Far otherwise was it, however, with the volcanos of the Lipari Islands; in these the manifestations of igneous activity had been so constant and striking, that priests, poets, and philosophers had successively associated the locality with their most marvellous stories.

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