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ETNA (Gr. \lrvrj, from aWw, burn; Lat. Aetna), a volcano on the east coast of Sicily, the summit of which is 18 m. N. by W. of Catania. Its height was ascertained to be 10,758 ft. in 1900, having decreased from 10,870 ft. in 1861. It covers about 460 sq. m., a ...

ETAH, a town and district of British India, in the Agra division of the United Provinces. The town is situated on the Grand Trunk road. Pop. (1901) 8796. The district has an area of 1737 sq. m. The district consists for the most part of an elevated alluvial pl

ETON, a town of Buckinghamshire, England, on the north left) bank of the river Thames, opposite Windsor, within which parliamentary borough it is situated. Pop. of urban district (1901) 3301. It is famous for its college, the largest of the ancient Engtish pub

... e same volume. On his pages, close beside the I'.irthenon, the Sphinx. M I'aulV Etna and Vesuvius, you will find the White Mountains, Monadnock, Agiocochook, Katahdin, the pickerelweed in bloom, the wild geese honking through the sky, the thick -a -dee braving ...

... nverts it into oxalic acid. Several compounds of ethylene and metallic ETIENNE— ETNA chlorides are known; e.g. ferric chloride in the presence of ether at 150° C. gives C2H4-FeCl3-2H2O (J. Kachtler, Ber., 1869, 2, p. 510), while platinum bichloride in concentr ...

... Lar9i or Sana of a woman. (2) nomen — family name. ETTENHEIM ( Tile or Vipi or Tetna, of men. at - * - - 'g'\ e-g Titi or Vipinei or Tetinei, of women. (3) cognomen = additional family name. e.g. Faru or Petru of men, Farui, Vetui of women. (4) agnomen = speci ...

... however, situated in the Mediterranean. Vesuvius on the western coast of Italy, Etna in the island of Sicily, and Stromboli 4 See Mitteil. der Wiener Geog. Gesellschaft (1890), p. 333. 6 See R. T. GUnther, Contributions to the Study of Earth-Movements in the B ...