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IN this little volume Mr. Rodwell has essayed to do for Etna that which the late Prof. Phillips accomplished so successfully in the case of Vesuvius, namely, to write a popular and at the same time accurate account of the past and present conditions of a mountain, which from the very earliest periods to which human history and tradition go back, has powerfully arrested the attention and excited the imagination of mankind. The scope and aim of these two works being so nearly the same it is hard to avoid drawing a comparison between them.
Etna: a History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions.
By G. F. Rodwell, Science Master in Marlborough College. With Maps and Illustrations. Pp. 142. (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1878.)
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Etna: a History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions . Nature 19, 480–481 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019480a0
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