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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6094#0233
2io A TOUR THROUGH
Cast your eyes a little farther, and you
embrace the whole island, and see all its
cities, rivers, and mountains, delineated in
the great chart of Nature: All the adjacent
islands, the whole coast of Italy, as far as
your eye can reach; for it is no where
bounded, but every where lost in the space.
On the sun's first rising, the shadow of the
mountain extends across the whole issand,
and makes a large track visible even in the
sea and in the air. By degrees this is
shortened, and, in a little time, is confined
only to the neighbourhood of iEtna.
We now had time to examine a fourth
region of this wonderful mountain, very
different, indeed, from the others, and
productive of very different sensations; but
which has, undoubtedly, given being to
all the rest; I mean the region of fire.
The present crater of this immense vol-
cano is a circle of about three miles and a
half
Cast your eyes a little farther, and you
embrace the whole island, and see all its
cities, rivers, and mountains, delineated in
the great chart of Nature: All the adjacent
islands, the whole coast of Italy, as far as
your eye can reach; for it is no where
bounded, but every where lost in the space.
On the sun's first rising, the shadow of the
mountain extends across the whole issand,
and makes a large track visible even in the
sea and in the air. By degrees this is
shortened, and, in a little time, is confined
only to the neighbourhood of iEtna.
We now had time to examine a fourth
region of this wonderful mountain, very
different, indeed, from the others, and
productive of very different sensations; but
which has, undoubtedly, given being to
all the rest; I mean the region of fire.
The present crater of this immense vol-
cano is a circle of about three miles and a
half