Identifier: etnahistoryofmou00rodw (find matches)
Title: Etna : a history of the mountain and of its eruptions
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Rodwell, G. F. (George Farrer), b. 1843 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R
Subjects: East Timor News Agency Volcanoes Volcanic soils Volcanic ash, tuff, etc
Publisher: London : C. Kegan Paul & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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et makes the world.What do you think of these sentiments from a RomanCatholic Divine ? The Bishop, who is strenuouslyorthodox—for it is an excellent See—bas alreadywarned him to be upon his guard, and not to pre-tend to be a better natural historian than Moses; notto presume to urge anything that may, in the smallestdegree, be deemed contradictory to his sacred authority.The Canon Recupero lost his church preferment onthe publication of Brydones book, and the whole bodyof clergy of Girgenti received a reprimand on accountof a capital story which Brydone told of a dinner atwhich the Bishop presided, during which several ofthe reverend Canons suffered severely from the effectsof English punch, which Brydone had brewed for them.We quite agree with Admiral Smyth when he says,It is a pity that Mr. Brydone laboured under sucha cacoethes, as to sacrifice a friend for the sake of agood story. Of course we now know that Recuperosestimate of the age of Etna was far within the true J#**&
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