Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-16 | Page 2 | Volcano a Weather Prophet

VOLCANO WEATHER PROPHET its warning known to the ancients many centuries ago As a natural weather prophet and infallible at that the volcano on the island of twelve miles north of in the mediterranean Is be li 1 to hold the record the follow ing is from an account ol 01 a dinner given by the geographical council club of england in 1893 capt WT arton the to the admiralty told how he had once an choked in very deep water on the east side of the southern of the laparl isles but that he had kept up stream with the intention of being off immediately it the wind changed to the east he mentioned this to an englishman who lived on the island wd in charge ot some borax works but said the man there Is not the remotest chance of the wind going round to the east without the full warning what warning asked the other oh was the rejoinder the volcano always warns us the volcano bald whar ton tes the volcano a fumarole fu marone always emits a whistling sound before the east wind begins to blow shortly after this wharton was looking at strabo and to his astonishment found that that writer mentions the tact the had never heard of strabo in his life strabo died as an old min about A D 25 so that this excellent tur marone mut have been giving its warnings t ell nigh 2 years at least