Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850

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The name of this gentleman will be recognised by some of the readers of NOTES AND QUERIES as that of a most indefatigable explorer of the wonders of the mountain, and the author, in the Transactions of the Catanian Academy., of excellent descriptions of its recent eruptions.

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If the patient be a woman, the grave chosen must be that of the last young man buried, and that of the last young woman in the case of a man patient.