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Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning…
Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah formerly, II. Concerning the burning of Æetna, or Mount Gibel more lately, III. Concerning the burning of the wicked eternally, with fire and brimstone / by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. II. Concerning the Mountain of Aetna or Gibel in the general.
AETna is a Mountain in the Island of Sicily, which Island is environed round by the Tyr• Sea, but a small distance from Italy, in one part of it, up to which ancient Writers think it was joined by an […] or neck of Land, (like as Pelep•sus to Greece) unto the continent of Italy, but by the violent beating of the Sea upon that neck was divided asunder […] i•, so Justin. lib. 4. cap. 1. and others are of the s•me mind. The height and bigness of this Aetna or Mount G•b. is very great: some […] it to be ten […], others fifteen m•les distant from the head and top above, to the foot and plain […] •nd perpendicular in a strait line to be three or four miles. Towards it's head it is rocky and steep, and some part of it is always covered with Snow; towards the middle it is beautified with Trees and Woods, towards the bottom it is enriched with Corn and Vines, and exceeding ⟨p. 53⟩fruitful. The Hill hath two shoulders Eastward, and between both an eminent head in the middle, which may be seen at the distance of fifty leagues (as some affirm) by Sailors on the Sea. But that which hath rendered this Mountain most famous, hath not been so much the height and bigness of it, as the smoking head and flaming mouth thereof, of which both ancient and modern Authors have written. I shall instance in some few.
AETna is a Mountain in the Island of Sicily, which Island is inviron'd round by the Tyr Sea, but a small distance from Italy, in one part of it, up to which ancient Writers think it was joyned by an or neck of Land, (like as Pelepsus to Greece) unto the continent of Italy, but by the violent beating of the Sea upon that neck was devided asunder i, so Iustin. lib. 4. cap. 1. and others are of the sme mind. The heigth and bigness of this Aetna or Mount Gb. is very great: some it to be ten , others fifteen mles distant from the head and top above, to the foot and plain nd perpendicular in a strait line to be three or four miles. Towards it's head it is rocky and steep, and some part of it is always covered with Snow; towards the middle it is beautifyed with Trees and Woods, towards the bottom it is enriched with Corn and Vines, and exceeding