Litchfield enquirer., 1833-06-20
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 Travellers have generally asserted that the volcano of Stromboli has for long dime discharged it's fury into the sea, with out. causing either alarm or injury 10 the inhabitants of the island. The eruptions, however, fall equally on every side around the volcano; though at this place they on- ly fall into tho sea, and in that sense their assertion is we'll founded.
 But the people ofStromboli, and indeed almost all the inhabitants of the Eolian islands, entertain an opinion, equally anus ing and paradoxical, by which they ex- plain why that part of the sea which IS contiguous to the precipice is never filled up, notwithstanding the immense quantities of stones which have been continually fail- ing into it from time immemorial; where, instead ofa peninsula having been formed by those stones, as might naturally have been expected, the sea is generally said to have no bottom. To explain this appar- ent paradox, these good folks affirm. with the most entire conviction that what they say is true, that the stones of the volcano which fall into the sea are attracted again by the mountain through secret passages i; 80 that there is constant circulation from tho volcano to the sea, and the sea to the volcano.
 did not attempt to controvert their fa- vorite Hypothesis, which would have been to no advantage, and to no avail; but caused that part of the sea to be sounded, and found 1t hundred and twenty feet deep, which, though that is not great depth in the Mediterranean, is certainly, in this place, somewhat surprising; as itW Was to be expected that the continual discharge of stones into it should have produced little hill, which would at last have emerg- ed above the waves.
 With respect to the time when this voi- cano began to exert its activity, and to melt these rocks. we are profoundly ignor.-. ant, this being an epocha anterior to all history. r'
 The most ancient accounts of tls con- fiagrations of Stromboli, transmitted to us by history, are prior to tbe Christian era by about 19O years. the date of the reign of Agathocles, the celebrated tyrant of Syracuse. This volcano burned likewise in the times of Augustus and Tiberins. when Diodorus and Strabo foarished.- But after this latter period. long series of ages succeeds, during which from want of documents, we gre ignorant of the state of StrambOli and it is not until the seven- teenth century. that wS again know with certainty that 1t ejscted fire though it is nos improbable that it continued to burn likewise during the times in which we find no mention of t ja history: on which sup vosigion, It's uninterrupted copGsgratiOn, for SO gysat a length of t5me, must indeed appear astonishing Yet sboagh 1t should Aaae csassd EoF several ages, we know I fifosm various public testimonies, that its \ continued euupSsoas cannot have lasted less \ Mtasp tMO hundred yeass.
 Here ous curiosity nSay natwsaIIy De ex- eJas& ky the qaesaS0m what are thO sub- sGsnces which, w5thOgt diminutiOn, have nourished, during such a number of years, and still continue to feed, these 6res1 | do not perceive that there is any reason to suppose them different from those which furnish fuel to tho intermitting volcanoes, except that their source appears to be in- exhaustible. 1t is believed, with much reason. that sulphur produces and contin- aes volcanoes; and wherever these moun- tains burn, we have indisputable proofs of jGs pgesence.-Family Lyceum.
 4 NOsiOR.-T'he York County Farmer has, over his marriage head. a representa- sfes ofa company of girls, employed with reds snd lines fishing in pool for hus- bsnds. One has caught her chap by tho waiss, ard holds him dangling in the air in anappaFeatly very uncomfortable situation. AnosheF hss caught label with the figures 10000 apOB q, so indicate, perhaps, that MIengy and nos husband is her object in 6Shina, and llird has gos her hook in the npgw16 og a Biksly locking fellow, and is in dc acs of puIligg him out of the water.