ETNA IN ERUPTION. linir Orlt Ihnnl lur doubt fill If tie climbing of Ye>u\ in- is a prom enade, that of Etna is brief, but painful Starting trom t atania in summer clothes, one must don the le tviesl winter ul-ter la-fotv reaehitu' the summit, on penalty ol fiAvzing. The thermometer, which mark-at tin- foot sixty degree* in the sun, falls many d-'grees below zero dur ing the night tint' must be nass.il at the fisit of the main cone During the forty-eight hour- tliat >re generally em plnvol in -rending and descending tin volcano. Ac tourist has to endure at hast twice a variation of temperature averaging on -ixt d- gives, and a v aria tion of atmospheric pis -snreof 3.31? kil ogramme. This enormou- mass pres ents all the climate- of the ghdve. The lower .'>me. which attains a height ot about TS.VUHV feet, i- lvcuutUied by tin mo-t huwrhut Tfptatioa, rack id the tropi ca! and tll tnodernt. zones afford. It 1-. index), tlx richest land ot " olive ami aax and mai ■ and vine"' to be found upon the fa.v of Europe. Laughing little low ns. white, prosvierous. and gl.-efu . and. dr. ary Norm an nstk* .abound all over the n gton. uiinge . w itL streak- of his. k lava, ami interrupted by gardens tii'.ial w itli orange us •-. ligtr.vs and ole anders. I'he middle ?om . or " Woody Region," belts the mountain to a height of nearly s> \ enthouvutd feet, and though not so richly shaded a- in former times, it still dr- rve- the natie of i. whi hit rived front the an ient-. I'he eruption ot the s.v-o.v. -d " 11. where.l. del FU.hm," in 1700, dostrov.il over a million oaks of the most Itoautiftii growth on the southern -idc of the mountain. A bore this tl.e inert firgf—' the lour hundred and *ev. ntv - \eu species ot which the flora ot the Etnean vv.ml- t compos.il thin down to a Out eighty, tliirtx of which urn lichens belonging to the glacial zone. The upper portion of the mountain is. in fa. t, a cast wi der n is where the tire alone .ivntrnd* for supremacy with the -now that, almost a tin v ar round clothes the summit and the -id- of tie main cone. The iau-r i als>ut live hundred f<-et high; wrv i: g i tire wou >\ r> aeh it- -um uii* -o dittit ult >- the aseeot. H< xv 1. • i- tint s-en the -un ri- from the top of Ktn ha- a gtvat deal to learn :hU. as nsity and beauty of na tu.a . du- - as the -un ri- -. an iinmen-e shadow m ex .tr-ite purple i projt' ' !' r.u tli volcano half over the 5- e. w without it- range the light strik'-- w l li magic suddt anes- upon the top- ot mountains below The range of th vi w i- a most h uindie-—iV.a nia. Srra - and even Malta; tie- I'vr ennia:.. th 7. "lian ami the 'African ar v.- . Castro l.iovanni stands tu> on i:. . ■ ~ c.e spieuou- in the center of : i-l : whi. the distant Apeti nir. - oi l hale i and Apulia, ami the entrain ;'".li Faro ef Me--ina. with the llralinav tovvr< of R.-ggio and Pin . appear in tie far east. Seemingly but a mi e distant rile crater JHVsentS itself as a real ral • v. profound, un. ren. with hollow- and promontories formed by an—-* of v i ihat have rolled in all di re-lion-. < vWr enctoa- hing upon >ne an other. Thg wa 1- of the crater are jet black and sti-el gray in color, inter sie r-t-1 vita th moot beautiful bluish, reddish, pruralrti and golden v. in-. A grave-like -- eiuv usui • prevail-. A thousand -tii'i'-a k- n.'i- •ly emit long trails of white raior* that go slow ly to -rak against the sides of the crater. While the ascent of the cone takes at l<-n-t two hours, the descent i- done in fire minute-. At the Ixt- of the cone an tie- • Tow ■r of the Philosopher." and,, further below, the ••English House." Tic hitter was originally built by the tiemelhuo family, who for threi generations have derot