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Show VOLCANO A WEATHER PROPHET. Its Warning Known to the Ancients Many Centuries Ago. As a natural weathor prophet, and Infallible at that, tho volcano on the Island of Vulcano, twelve miles north of Slcllly In tho Medlterancan, is be-Ilved be-Ilved to hold tho record. Tho following follow-ing Is from an account of a dinner given by tho Geographical Council club of England in 1893: "Copt Wharton, tho hydrographer to tho admiralty, told how he had once anchored an-chored In very deep water on the cast side of Vulcano, the southern-nost southern-nost of the Llpati Isles, but that he had kopt up stream, with the Intention of botne off Immediately if the wind changed to tho oast. He mentlonod this to an Englishman who lived on the island nd was in chargo of somo borax works. 'But' said tho man. 'there Is not the remotest chance of the wind going round to the cast without tho full warning.' 'What warning?' asked the other. 'Oh!' was the rejoinder, 'tho volcano always warns us.' 'Tho volcano!' said Wharton. Whar-ton. 'Yes, the volcano; a fumarone" always emits a whistling sound beforo tho east wind begins to blow.' Shortly after this Wharton was looking nt Strabo and, to his astonishment, found that that writer montlons the fact. The Englishman bad nover heard of Strabo in his llfo. Strabo died as an old man about A. D. 25, so that this excellent 'furmarone' must have beon giving Its warnings woll-nlgh 2,000 years at least." |
