Produced by Steven Gibbs, Adam Styles and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net While preparing an account of MOUNT ETNA for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, I was surprised to find that there exists no single work in the English language devoted to the history of the most famous volcano in the world. I was consequently induced to considerably enlarge the Encyclopaedia article, and the following pages are the result. The facts recorded have been collected from various sources--German, French, Italian, and English, and from my own observations made during the summer of 1877. I desire to express my indebtedness to Mr. Frank Rutley, of H.M. Geological Survey, for his car…
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