Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-08

churches to the piazza, and there prayed
for the desoiating flood to be arrested.
! The stream was described by another
eyewitness. who assembled the mount
ain and looked down upon the crater.as a
sea of bright red angry lava, mot Ii
quid. as most people suppose, but con-
slsting Of many millions of large and
small blocks of rocky-looizing stuff roll
ing onward" The eruption, however,
slackened early in june, and finally
ceased On the 9Th, after enguling con-
vent and many woods and vineyards, at
point OILY few hundred yards of the
nearest house in Nicolosi For some
days after, however, earthquakes of
considerable violence continued to be
felt throughout the Etna region. caus-
ing much terror. and in one place they
destroyed several houses.
The volcanoes majestic height is less
imposing to the imagination than its
vast extent, for Ill Monte" has an area
of f62 square miles Two cities, Cata-
MIA and Aci Reaie, and sixty-two small
towns cluster upon the slopes of the
awful mountain. whose entraiis are fire,
and whose breath is fame and light
ming. Catania has a population of
nearly 100 900. AID Aci Reale of about
1000
Nine miles beneath the crater. which
is loo feet in depth. three miles in
width tit was rent anew into great
assures by the last eruptionl, the habit
able zone commences. and is tenauted
by 300,0 0) souls. Only the Val del
Bove, commencing two miles from the
summit, where Sir Charles Lye1 be-
ieves there formerly existed a center of
permanent eruption. is altogether ster-
lie now; the other sides of the mount
ain are clothed with trees at the same
level. And such trees, Fourteen sep
arate forests form the Regiona Seivosa,
and they abound with oak, beech. pine
and poplar. with the chestnut, the lex
and the cork tree. Mariposa and Cal
averas cannot beat the ''Castagna di
Cento Cavalli." in the forest of Carpi-
netto, on the east side Of the mountain,
in whose trunk, through which the
public road now passes. a queen of Ara
gon once took shelter. with suite of
100 horsemen. The Regione Coltivata,
whose soil consists of decomposed lava,
is lavishly fruitful: of the three regions,
Of which the Daserta has the most pow
erful charm for the imagination, Bry-
done says:
Besides the corn. the wine, the oil,
the silk, the spice, and delicious fruits
OF its lower region: the beautiful forests,
the dechs, the game, the tar, the cork,
the honey OF its second: the snow and
ice of its THRIFT affords from its cav
ems a variety of minerals and other
productions. CHINA Oar, mercury, SUI
phur, alum, nitre and vitriol, so that
the wonderful mountain. at the same
time, produces every necessary and
every luxury of life
The story of the ascent OF the mount
ain from whose summit Plato, in his Sc
rene and thoughtful time, and Mr.. Glad
stone, in our troublous days, have. among
many great men, in great wonder,
watched the sunrise, has strong fas-
cination, because of its wide contrast,
its stern exaction of strength and en-
durance, and its supreme, awe-inspiring
reward-the realiZa ton OF that which
inspired the ancients and the poets of
the middle ages From the banana
and the orange groves, from the vine
yards and the palms, through the seven
botanical regions into which the botan-
lists have divided the realm protected of
observation-disclosures amid the billowy
cornfields of her mother, Demeter, and
the meadow-fowers she loved in girl
hold, are ever found sulphurous ravines
and chasms breathing vapor from the
pit of Hades' the snow-capped crust
that spreads for ten square miles be-
tween the awful depth of unquenchable
fire and the blue heaven that suddenly
seems to be brought near, the traveller
mounts, with an ever-increasing sense
of the vastness beyond and around him
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