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Show VOLCANO j WEATHER PROPHET. It Warning Known to th Ancient i Many Canlurlea Ago. Aa a natural weather prophet, and fhfalllble at that th volcano on th Island of Vulcano. twelve milra north of Hlcilly in Ihe MedUeranesn, Is be-lived be-lived to hold the record. The following follow-ing Is from an account ot a dinner given by th Geographical Council club of England ln 18143: "Capt Wharton, Ih hydrographer to th admiralty, told how he had one anchored an-chored In very doep water on tbe east aide of Vulcano, tha southern-Host southern-Host ot the I.lparl laics, but that be bad kept up stream, with tha Intention of being oft Ira nrdlatuly If Ihe wind changed to the oast He mentioned this to an Englishman who lived on th Island and was In charge of om borax work. "Dut' said th man. 'there la not th remotest chanc ot th wind going round to th east without th full warning.' 'What warning?" asked th other. 'Oh!' waa th rejoinder, 'the volcano alwaya warns us.' 'The volcano!' said Wharton. Whar-ton. 'Yes, the volcano; a fumarone" always emits a whistling sound before th east wind herlna to blow.' Shortly after thla Whsrtoo was looking at Strabo and, to hla astonishment, found that that writer mentions tbe fact The Englishman bad never heard of Strabo In his life. Htrotio died as an old man about A. D. 25, so that this exrollent 'furmarone' must have been giving Ita warulngs well-nigh 2,000 years at least." |