Show OLD MOUNT ETINA destruction wrought rought Iv by various eruptions or of this treacherous volcano the celebrated volcano or of ain mount etna Is onea once more in a at itata a to of eruption ever sinei ft a record has baa been wide and kept of kind its great creat ills dis tur baric es havo been preceded by ear earthquakes t 1 loud lend explosions ate ara h d rifts drifts finally open in the a bides 1 des of tho the famous smoke sand ashes and mccrim are dis charged cinders are ara thrown out and accumulate around in a conical form and ht bt last lava rises through the cone come often breaking down one side of it whore there Is the least reala tan tance le and flowing over the out eur rounding round tn country there have bave been some seventy nine mine recorded eruptions erupt loua the most moat of these of a harmi lais character A few only have leayo been va a tent tle most noted of thew these eruptions eru potions occurred at widely separate periods peri 0 d but their effects w will it tint not be forgo forgotten t 0 wh while ileman inhabits the earth in the ali e year 1163 1169 an eruption bilok place which overwhelmed Catan lai when inhabitants perched perla hed in the bakalor ruins jua yeara later thatis in 1669 1600 thousands and teas of thousands perished la in tho the stream of lava which rolled over the adjoining country tor for forty days in the alia month of jiam may 1830 several ad jacent villages were Idea destroyed troyed and ali owera of lava reached near to the eternal city itself on november 11 li 1 1832 tho the town of brenta was destroyed and in august anil and sep te ember nabor 1852 violent eruptions oc cured violent eruptions erupt loni also alao took place november 28 INS 1803 and may ag a and june jun a 1879 i the tha loss of flics lifo luring during the chris van era lias has been wiy very grett great 1 willie while tho the destruction of 11 iio 0 orty porty ii 13 un counted the co condition it t ou of the be region around tho volcano proper my enay bo be readily guessed whon ll Is explained that there are two cities catania and ael ac leale andl sixty tareo toni or ir villages on oa mount inglet inducil In decil I it Is i 4 much inch moro I 1 limn any ther other nirl of if or nr italy no fewer hun arr onn live 0 on n the tile arva of the region H HS 4 dm ile mountain inia lely the vioght or tile nau in 11 feet tho the rinolus of from froin ilia suns sum 1 alit has been varlo stated but t the he malle li ii probably not fir bir broin no luo the reason for tit the largo opu hillon 1 il found in tile the fam net tho surface soil boll is ij extremely fertile ft rod the cinq as well na as eslen ions aig alki A 9 mul 1 id other frulla fruits the forests are exle ex olve and valuable the beiert re region which Is nearest ilia open lib of tile the cones la 18 en braced be ba tweet the gwilt of leet feet and the summit area or of about ten square milda noil and consists of ft dreary waste of black snail sand jorice jo rife ashes antl and masses of elected lava it rema remains ilia in autumn winter anit and a princ permanently permanently covered with saw 3 a 0 W it and even in the height of summer a rat r snow now may be found in sa s1 ere in the lh neighborhood of the iha chicago inter ineer ocean |