The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-09-02
Srlrrr0 Stur1.
"A Leap in the Dark,


Hand to pass through Sicily. Though 6y
no means person of romantic character.
lie had fancy for wandering about
mountains, Tor getting bclalod ir forests,
and supp,ng 10y the light of woodtircs um.
der rock. II was perfectly natural,
Therefore, that he shonid wish TO visit
Mount Htna, look ut the great chestnut
trees, aud examine that marvellous belt
OF vegetation, so admirably described bv
the Commandanl Doliluian, which encir
cle> the cone of the volcano and marks
the ,'oint at which in general. the streams
OF lava are arrested in their onward pro.
gress.
Our travellers uuromantic name was
Fennel. AMI he had along with him two
friends, considerably Younger than him.
selt-the one clergyman, aud the other
"a barrlSier, Two servants not mach nc.
cnstomed 10 s"jnunn in strange countries,
rough l"rkslnrcmcn, speaking their uo.
tive dialect in perfection, and dc>pisinr
every thing not English. waited upon the
triad of travellers and. when they left
CAtania, two g3des We're hired to con
duct the parry through the Iabvrinlh Of
woods, gorges, gIcus. raviucs, and prcci-
pic"Swhlch ntrrccpls the aSccrt To the era
ter, and renders 1t at all times an enter
prs" OF considerable danger.
For nearly week before they set out
tie mountain had exhibited some syrup.
toms OF internal uueasiness Etuhqua
k"S passed like gentle remors beneath the
city, not rocking or leaving up tie earth,
not cracking the walls or di>mnutiiug the
houses, but Just giving ;rcnuiuus mo.
t'on 90 The pavement under your feet ,aud
~ night causing the pillow under v.ur
head 10 seem fyr an instant about to float
away. 10 the Ca,anlans tbs was moth
ing; thcv ari been uSc,l to it from the
cradle. Their houses al stood upon iho
Il'h, were built with lava : the dc;ri,us
o' Lava iornci Ihe very so in ihcir gar
dchS, and ,hc irJts they ate had rich
,a'a Relish. In some sense they Mere
hat lava themselves ; cod without, fiery
wlIhln, icrmg much, reilerl'ng, little, al
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mu.e, were ready and off ihe, vent
To describe what lhey saw. What ihav
felt. what they lhouyLt and what ,b.y
SAID would in a volume of no small di.
mensions. Sicily i, biz. every inch Of !,
with wonder and no writer. so far ss /
know has succeeded in conye, inc TO an
uu.ravs,le,I reader any idea Of IFS awe
inspiring scenery. You know very well
that every step YOU take conduct, ,ou
over uniathorn.6l. ruli, of IRE c,o,n
which YOU are separs,ed only l., y rh,,
crust, winch NAV AT any moment crnck
and fall in. You know that intermIua.
bic beds ui sulphur extend frcm the orea,
volcanic peak ~. unnumLcred leagues ont
beneath the sea. and that for thousands
of years they have snppIied fu. 10 ,ba,
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