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Etna in Winter

Nature volume 2, pages 142–143 (1870)Cite this article

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THE ascent of a high mountain always gives plenty of opportunities of observation and experiment, but that of the prince of the volcanoes of Europe, and at the same time one of the grandest of its mountains, must always be an undertaking of paramount interest to the student of the phenomena of Nature.

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CORFIELD, W. Etna in Winter. Nature 2, 142–143 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002142a0

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