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Rh that communicate below, and run under Sea Sect. between the Islands and the Continent. By this means the burning Mountain Ætna is of such a Nature, as we all know it to be and likewise the Liparean Islands, the Country about Diaearchia, Naples and Baice, and the Islands Pithecustæ.'—

Ibid. (h)/ / 258. (h)

And Diodorus relates of the Lipareans, "That some Authors affirm that there are subterraneous Passages from these Islands reaching all the way to Ætna in Sicily, which communicate with one another by Openings at both Ends; and that, for this Reason, the Vulcano's or Craters in these Islands burn for the, most part by turns with those of Ætna." Book V.

p. 250(i) / 259 (h)

TORLUATO TASSO, in the Beginning of his Gierufalemme Liberata, instead of a Nymph from Helicon, invokes a heavenly Muse, and prays,

Illustrate Thou my Song, and mild forgive, If Ornaments I interweave with Truth. He has been copied in this Invocation by our admired Country-man Milton in the Beginning of his Paradise Lost.

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