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266 A TOUR THROUGH
ancient writers, that it has been said of
JEtna as well as of Greece :
" Nullum est sine nomine saxum."
Indeed, I am afraid this saying was much
more applicable to it formerly than it is at
present; for we even found several large
mountains that had no name; and it does
not at all appear, that the number of phi-
losophers in Sicily have by any means in-
creased in the later ages. Their ambition
is now changed ; and if they can get a
saint to keep the devils of ./Etna in order,
they trouble themselves very little about the
cause of its operations ; and do not value
their issand half so much for having given
birth to Archimedes or Empedocles, as to
St. Agatha and St. Rosolia.
The ancients, as well as the moderns,
seem ever to have considcred iEtna as one
of the highest mountains on the globe,
There
ancient writers, that it has been said of
JEtna as well as of Greece :
" Nullum est sine nomine saxum."
Indeed, I am afraid this saying was much
more applicable to it formerly than it is at
present; for we even found several large
mountains that had no name; and it does
not at all appear, that the number of phi-
losophers in Sicily have by any means in-
creased in the later ages. Their ambition
is now changed ; and if they can get a
saint to keep the devils of ./Etna in order,
they trouble themselves very little about the
cause of its operations ; and do not value
their issand half so much for having given
birth to Archimedes or Empedocles, as to
St. Agatha and St. Rosolia.
The ancients, as well as the moderns,
seem ever to have considcred iEtna as one
of the highest mountains on the globe,
There