CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN. 1

Position.--Name.--Mention of Etna by early writers.--Pindar.-- Æschylus.--Thucydides.--Virgil.--Strabo.--Lucretius.--Lucilius Junior.--Etna the home of early myths.--Cardinal Bembo.--Fazzello.-- Filoteo.--Early Maps of the Mountain.--Hamilton.--Houel.--Brydone.-- Ferrara.--Recupero.--Captain Smyth.--Gemellaro; his Map of Etna.-- Elie de Beaumont.--Abich.--Hoffmann.--Von Waltershausen's Atlas des Aetna.--Lyell.--Map of the Italian Stato Maggiore.--Carlo Gemellaro.--Orazio Silvestri.