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Identifier: southbyeastnotes00rodwrich (find matches)
Title: South by east : notes of travel in southern Europe
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Rodwell, G. F. (George Farrer), b. 1843
Subjects: Europe, Southern -- Description and travel 1871-1918
Publisher: London : M. Ward & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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A TEMPLE AT POMPEII. Pompeii can be reached in an hour from Naples by train, or ifthe day be fine, and the visitor is inclined to start early, it is apleasant drive along the edge of the Bay of Naples. The historyof the destruction of the town by ashes from Vesuvius, is toowell known to need even passing notice. Those who have not read
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O <A, o CO o Pompeii and Herculaneum. 151 any of the graver histories of the event have been fascinated bythe Last Days of Pompeii, written when the author was stayingthere, during a very active period in the history of the excava-tions. The town seemed to be doomed to destruction ; the awakenedenergy of Vesuvius began to show itself in a.d. 63, when a fearfulearthquake laid the whole place in ruins. However, nothingdaunted, the inhabitants re-erected the city, and had scarcelyfinished it when the final catastrophe of a.d. 79 destroyed it forever. A dense shower of ashes fell, and covered the town to adepth of three feet, and shortly afterwards showers of red-hot vol-canic dust and pumice stone added an additional eight feet; theseshowers continued until the stratum of volcanic matter was twentyfeet deep. The excavations were first commenced in 1748, andhave been continued, not without intermission, until the presenttime. More than half the town still remains buried beneath theashe

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