Three Volcanoes at Once

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 17, 1878

Three Volcanoes at Once.

The simultaneous eruption of the three great volcanoes in different regions is exciting attention.—The Hartford Times says: "Not once in centuries does a time occur in which, as at present, all of three active volcanoes of the world are in full blaze together. That singular fact now exists. Cotopaxi, in Ecuador, the great active fire mountains of the Andean chain, is reported to be in full and tremendous activity—his towering snow-covered peak, rising far above the high mountain valley of Quito, and 20,000 feet above the sea, being crowned by a roaring sheet of flame, and belching forth lava, ashes and thunder. In Italy both of the great volcanoes are in action—an unusual circumstance. Ætna the great mountain in the island of Sicily is seldom in action—scarcely once in a century—and far more rare is the occurrence of a simultaneous eruption of Ætna and Vesuvius."