[footnote] *Ocre Fisove (Mons Vesuvius) in the Umbrian language. (Lassen 'Deutung der Eugubinischen Tafeln in Rhein. Museum', 1832, s. 387.) The word 'ochre' is very probaby genuine Umbrian, and means, according to Festus, 'mountain'. Aetna would be a burning and shining mountain, if Voss is correct in stating that [Greek work] is an Hellenic sound, and is connected with [Greed word] and [Greek word]; but the intelligent writer Parthey doubts this Hellenic origin on etymological grounds, and also because etna was by no means regarded as a luminous beacon for ships or wanderers, in the same manner as the ever-travailing Stromboli (Strongyle), to which Homer seems to refer in the Odyssey (xii., 68, 202, and 219), and its geographical position was not so well determined. I suspect that tna would be found to be a Sicilian word, if we had any fragmentary materials to refer to. According to Diodorus (v., 6), the Sicani, or aborigines preceding the Sicilians, were compelled to fly to the western part of the island, in the consequence of successive eruptions extending over many years. The most ancient eruption of Mount Aetna on record is that mentioned by Pindar and Schylus, as occurring under Hiero, in the second year of the 75th Olympiad. It is probable that Hesiod was aware of the devastating eruptions of Aetna before the period of Greek immigration. There is, however, some doubt regarding the work [Greek word] in the text of Hesiod, a subject into whci I have entered at some length in another place. (Humboldt, 'Examen Crit. de le Geogr.', t. i., p. 168.) In the time of Nero, men were disposed to rank Aetna among the volcanic mountains which were graduallybecoming extinct,* and subsequently Aelian** even maintained that mariners could no longer see the sinking summit of the mountain from so great a distance at sea. [footnote] *Seaeca. 'Epist.', 79. [footnote] ** Aelian, 'Var. Hist.', viii., 11. Where these evidences -- these old scaffoldings of eruption, I might almost say -- still exist, the volcano rises from a crater of elevation, while a high rocky wall surrounds, like an amphitheater, the isolated conical mount, and forms around it a kind of easing of highly elevated p 228 strata. Occasionally not a trace of this inclosure is visible, and the volcano, which is not always conical rises immediately from the neighboring plateau in an elongated form, as in the case of Pichincha,* at the foot of which lies the city of Quito. [footnote] *[This mountain contains two funnel-shaped craters, apparently resulting from two set of eruptions: the western nearly circular, and having in its center a cone of eruption, from the summit and sides of which are no less than seventy vents, some in activity and others extinct. It is probable that the larger number of the vents were produced at periods anterior to history. Caubney, op. cit., p. 488.] -- Tr.