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SICILY AND MALTA. 265
curiosity was satisfied in one clay ; and he
seems to have been contented only to look
at the lava at a great distance ; but did not
think of examining its source, or amend-
ing the mountain, although at that time
all the mod formidable circumstances of the
eruption were already over.
I mould not finiih this account of mount
iEtna, without saying something of the
various fables and allegories to which it has
given rise ; but it would probably lead me
into too vast a field, and give this more
the air of a disTertation than a letter or a
journal. These you will easily recollect.
They have asforded ample employment for
the muse, in all ages, and in all languages;
and indeed the philosopher and natural
historian have found, in the real properties
of this mountain, as ample a fund of spe-
culation, as the poets have done in the
sictitious.—It is so often mentioned by the
ancient
curiosity was satisfied in one clay ; and he
seems to have been contented only to look
at the lava at a great distance ; but did not
think of examining its source, or amend-
ing the mountain, although at that time
all the mod formidable circumstances of the
eruption were already over.
I mould not finiih this account of mount
iEtna, without saying something of the
various fables and allegories to which it has
given rise ; but it would probably lead me
into too vast a field, and give this more
the air of a disTertation than a letter or a
journal. These you will easily recollect.
They have asforded ample employment for
the muse, in all ages, and in all languages;
and indeed the philosopher and natural
historian have found, in the real properties
of this mountain, as ample a fund of spe-
culation, as the poets have done in the
sictitious.—It is so often mentioned by the
ancient