DOMAIN XII. VOLCANIC. 



" From the few historical memoirs which speak 

 of the eruptions of Etna, we find that those which 

 have issued from the crater are comparatively 

 far less numerous than those which broke for 

 themselves new orifices through the sides of the 

 mountain. 



" The epoch of the first stream of lava that 

 issued from the crater, which history has pre- 

 served, is that noticed by Julius Obsequens, whose 

 testimony is corroborated by Orosius, to have 

 happened in the year 227 from the building of 

 Rome. 



" The second is described by Fazelli, an ocu- 

 lar witness, by Philoteus, and Selvaggio - 3 it oc- 

 curred in the year 1536. 



" The third happened in 1607, and is de- 

 scribed by Carrera and Guarneri. 



" Massa speaks of the fourth, in the year 

 1688. 



" Father Amico mentions the fifth, sixth, se- 

 venth, and eighth, in the years 1727, 1732, 1735, 

 and 1747. 



" And finally the Canon Recupero speaks of 

 the ninth, which occurred in the year 1755." 



with the different species of lava, and suppose myself capable of 

 pointing out, with the specimens in my hand, the different species 

 to which they belong." 



