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314 FROM NAPLES TO POMPEII.
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ordin this excurs ary tourists ion , Livingstone and nothing , Speke in , Grant the way , and of Co travelling . seemed mere can
, surprise But if me with now the . " ten thousand" who have leisure and
money author at or comman traveller d upper , it yet is now to the almost " million a , matter " locomotion of course is to stil be l
that not an quite this such an every fall , -day into occurrence the hands ; and of some therefore who trusting at least
Rome have not to paper as les yet may or tried driven the from recentl _Nap y les opened to that lin most e of in rail teresting from
" city hicall of _Nap the as dead , , " Pompeii bewhat , was I will seen endeavour and exp to erienced describe by , as a
grap trio of travellers y may in that , neighbourhood last autumn . The arrival in Naples itself on the evening of September 29 th ,
Cit for in the many annoyed year a of day grace . with Tired 1863 the with , delay was our a and u long sensation passport journey " not imposition from to be the forgotten Eternal which
had y , marked the transition from papal to royal jurisdiction , the first siht of leshazy and indistinct though it was in the
_gNap , gath thing ering was g prominentl loom of evening y visible , , was a frowning a most welcome mass of one mountain . realiz One ,
Vesuvius double-peaked —Vesuvius , so close ! that at han well d that -remembere one could d nam scarcely e from the e
terrible days of and one . ' remorseless s earliest lessons destroyer in Geograp of works hy of . — art Vesuvius and beau ! that ty , devas
mi geniu ght s , palaces and insp and iration temp . — les Vesuv and their iu lordl s ! y befor halls e whose stand alike desolate enveloped tating and
tenantlesstheir builders and occupants in a shroud , destructive as the garment of Nessus to the luckless ! ,
wearer there Saving is no always historic the record annihilation of a ruin of the to " ci min ties d of so the awful plain as , " my
that slumbering which from in apparent purely natural security causes at the , overwhelmed base of the treacherous the cities - rest when
we not Mount gazed smoking Vesuvius out upon even . him to But the that the extent g evening iant was of from a in sing a our state le railway pipe of , reflecting carriage , caused and
perhaps in his old age upon the commotion he had the innocent that lives dreadfu he had l sacrificed appendage in past to travelling years . had to be
Baggage , , poeti dispelled secured c or and fan Indeed ciful a vehicl n reflection ature e obtained were of quickl , so kind y that and was all somewhat altogether reflections abruptl out of of y a
. any the emerg question ing from amidst the the railway sudden station hubbub . Such which touting surrounded , shouting us on , !
m and whi vehicles p-cracking lined , as the never street assailed on either us b hand efore I or know since not How but any _,
314 From Naples To Pompeii.
314 FROM NAPLES TO POMPEII .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/26/
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