VOLCANIC GIFTS.
All the accounts of Etna's eruption have dealt faithfully with the lava's destructive power, but there is another side to volcanic activity which must be put to its credit (says the Daily Chronicle). When time and wind and rain have turned the lava into mould you have some of the richest and most fertile of soils. The sal ammoniac, which you feed to your electric bell battery possibly came from Etna or its neighbour, Strom - boli. Sulphur, one of the fundamental materials of commerce, whose uses are many, is a volcanic gift, and so is boracic acid, which preserves food and cleanses wounds. Pumice stone is used by the painter to smooth woodwork before painting, by the dentist to cleanse tartar from our teeth, it forms an ingredient of most, metal polishes, and is used to smooth oilcloth and pumice is a most typical volcanic gift. It is the froth on the surface of the lava.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1419, 23 October 1923, Page 3
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