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(_SICILY_) / ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The word Etna, according to the _savants_, is a Phœnician word meaning the _mouth of the furnace_. The Phœnician language, as you see, was of the order of that one spoken of by Covielle to the _Bourgeois Gentilhomme_, which expressed many things in a few words. Many poets of antiquity pretend that it was the spot where Deucalion and Pyrrha took refuge during the flood. Upon this score, Signor Gemellaro, who was born at Nicolosì, may certainly claim the honour of having descended in a direct line from one of the first stones which they threw behind them. That would leave, as you see, the Montmorencys, the Rohans, and the Noailles, far behind.