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SICILY AND MALTA. 37
The issand of Lipari (from which all
the rest take the name) is by much the
largest, as well as the most fertile. By
the description of Aristotle, it appears that
it was in his time, what Strombolo is
in ours, considered by sailors as a light—
house, as its fires were never extinguiibed.
It has not suffered from subterraneous
fires for many ages past, though it every
where bears the marks of its former
slate. This is the issand supposed by Vir-
gil (who is one of our travelling compa-
nions) to be the habitation of iEolus; but
indeed all of them were formerly called
iEolian. As they were full of vast ca-
verns, roaring with internal fires, the poets
feigned that iEolus kept the winds pri-
soners here, and let them out at his plea-
sure. This allegorical fiction is of great
use both to Virgil and Homer, when they
want to make a storm, and forms no in-
considerable part of their machinery. A
goddess has nothing to do but take a
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The issand of Lipari (from which all
the rest take the name) is by much the
largest, as well as the most fertile. By
the description of Aristotle, it appears that
it was in his time, what Strombolo is
in ours, considered by sailors as a light—
house, as its fires were never extinguiibed.
It has not suffered from subterraneous
fires for many ages past, though it every
where bears the marks of its former
slate. This is the issand supposed by Vir-
gil (who is one of our travelling compa-
nions) to be the habitation of iEolus; but
indeed all of them were formerly called
iEolian. As they were full of vast ca-
verns, roaring with internal fires, the poets
feigned that iEolus kept the winds pri-
soners here, and let them out at his plea-
sure. This allegorical fiction is of great
use both to Virgil and Homer, when they
want to make a storm, and forms no in-
considerable part of their machinery. A
goddess has nothing to do but take a
D 3 8Ȥht