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only infer that the volcanization of thefe 

 two iflands was known to the ancients, from 

 a pafTage in Diodorus, who informs us, that 

 all the Eolian ifles were fubje£t to great 

 eruptions of fire, and that their craters and 

 mouths were ftiil vifible in his time ^•'". 

 With refpect to Lipari, very few memorials 

 have been preferved of its ancient conflagra- 

 tions. We are indeed certain of the great 

 antiquity of this ifland, and that it exifted 

 before the Trojan war; fmce we learn from 

 Homer that, after the taking of Troy, 

 UlyfTes landed there, and was treated with 

 the utmoft urbanity and courtefy by king 

 Eolus during a whole month, which he 

 continued there f ; and though we allow to 



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 ifavspa. Lib. V. 



nx«T>] £v w)70i. Horn. Odyff". Lib. X. 



Kai ixiv Twv utOfXsaSa ttc'aiv y.ai cxixara xa>-a. 



I7.10V, A^ynav T£ v£aj, nai vofov A;^«iS)V. Ibid. 



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