(°) One hundred horses. Y sazbasto @ sesho sazyy!. I knocked down a lot of trees here, extremely thick ones; by the way, the one that is called Ga U afe (ship), and in which there are about six fathoms of circumference around the root. Finally we arrived at the famous hundred-horse chestnut tree: from the bottom one can see one bark, and above it are seven hollow branches. Having circled the circumference of the tree, I counted 87 steps. The emptiness in it, or, if you like, its hollow, is 45 steps in diameter, and in other places even 20; A hut was built in the middle of the hollow, and the peasants say that it has existed for 200 years. In addition to this, in the same void there is a fairly large lawn, which is reached by many paths. The branches of this giant do not correspond to the thickness of its imaginary root, and I seriously doubt that the visible bark belongs to one trunk. The mrovodnik told me that recently someone tore off the ground around the entire tree, and found that it was down; solid bark; and this clearly shows that it belongs to the same tree. That's what they say!
Mount Etna is divided into three completely different hills or stripes: the first, Ves1one Siyo, or P\etotese, i.e. fertile, submountain; the second, Aesope 4571205a, or petogosa, lBesnaya, finally, the third, Aesope Dezeta, or bsoreta, i.e. deserted, barren. OnB also differ in climate and production, like stripes or zones of the globe; It would be decent to call them: hot, moderate and iced. The first is located at the foot of the mountain, along its entire circumference: there is the most fertile land, 45 miles high. The town of Nicolosi is located at the very tip of this strip. From here we entered the second, or lava, zone: it is all made up of lava, which over the course of several hundred years has already turned into rich plant soil. The climate here is completely different: at the foot of the mountain, in Katanyo in the region, the harvest was ripe and the heat was unbearable, but in Nicolosi, in the second zone, the grain was still green and the warmth was the most intense. Our road became worse hour by hour; one can even say that it was very nasty: everywhere you walk along the old lavf, and along extinct vents turned into arable land and vineyards. Zdyinve's fruits are considered the most excellent in all of Sitsimi; Figs of various kinds are especially famous. This strip is covered with hills, almost everywhere in a conical shape: they look like warts on the hills, but are already covered with greenery and growths. Each eruption produces one such hill. The fire and explosion of the burning mass cannot always reach the very top of the vent or crater, 42 or 43 thousand feet perpendicular to the height. It often happens that after shaking the entire mountain and surrounding countries for a long time, boiling lava breaks a hole in the side of the mountain, and then forms these hills. When an eruption occurs, thick and black smoke first flies; then, as if a rain of ash or ash begins to devastate the entire surrounding area; beyond the darkness, hot stones, some of enormous size, begin to be thrown out to a terrible height. These stones, falling with ash onto the mountain, form conical hills, which are sometimes formed in a very short time, sometimes, as during the eruption in 4669, this continues for many months: then the hill becomes a large mountain; n5which even now have a thousand khuts of perpendicular height; friend only from three to four here. As soon as a new mountain is formed, lava immediately appears from its foot, which flows, burning and destroying everything in its path. She always walks at night to the sea, where she stops and freezes. Etna's lathe nolosa occupies a space of nearly nine miles in height: it is around the mountain that it is a veritable nois of the best green color imaginable.