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                    ETNA.

   [Illustration: View of Etna from Catania]




                   ETNA

       _A HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN AND
              OF ITS ERUPTIONS._


                    BY

               G. F. RODWELL,

     SCIENCE MASTER IN MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE.

         WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

                [Illustration]

                    LONDON

   C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE

                     1878

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          I  DEDICATE  THIS  BOOK

                     TO

                 MY  MOTHER.




PREFACE.


While preparing an account of MOUNT ETNA for the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, I was surprised to find that there