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A mountain with its great cone smoking like a chimney, or sending up into the clouds a grand sheaf of flame, must be a splendid sight, and one never to be forgotten. But when it begins to pour forth rivers of hot lava it is time to get entirely out of sight of it, if you can. For these streams of lava are sometimes very long.
A hundred years ago Etna poured forth such an immense river of fiery stones, and liquid lava, and threw it out with such violence that it rushed in cascades and whirling torrents for fifteen miles, burning up everything in its course, until it finally plunged into the sea.