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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ...that the bones both of men and animals are met with in one of the mountains of this island inclosed in limestone, that is in all probability incrusted in stalactite. Lemnos is another of the islands to which a volcanic origin may be assigned, and the fable of Vulcan, who, when expelled from heaven, first alighted on this spot, would lead us to suspect either that some tradition prevailed among the Greeks as to the existence of volcanic phenomena, or that the rocks themselves had a burnt and sterile aspect. The latter is the manner in which the fable is explained by Galen, t and it appears from modern travellers that many parts of the island are covered with pumice and ashes. Choiseul Gouffier however is of opinion, that the volcano, from whence these products were derived, is now sunk in the sea, and that only certain portions of it may be recognized in some rocks near that island. It is probable, that the Lemnian Earth, famous from time immemorial in the cure of diseases, may be nothing more than a decomposed condition of trachyte, since it is found to This seems to be alluded to, when Philoctetes calls upon Neoplolemus to put an end to his sufferings with the Lemnian tire thai was rolling round him. Tai Krtniu ruS arocxvxXst'/AOu tni f/Ajwot, 4i ywixu. Sophocles. Phil. v. 800. + pxmrai yf ooioraTon xixxv/Aitv xxrx yt Tb xpoaI?, Koi Six T fAiiSf civTM tpviaBai. Galen, ntii tx px$naxtn. Lib. ix. c. 2. in Walpolc.s Turkey.; 130. CIIIJUJRIOT MOUNTAINS. be associated with volcanic products, and would seem from analysis to consist of the same ingredients as that rock united in proportions not very different. It is probable that these are not the only spots in the same part of Europe...

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