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320 PEOM NAPLES TO POMPEII.
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I stood by tlie side of one , that the children of the family had shore taken part and in that collecting Pater- * familias the shells had , pebbles perhaps , & c , desi . from gned the th sea eir
railings occasionall and arrangement in , one on y a you . p tolerable lace A come , very under upon collection few lock frescoes a broken and of marbles key are bust , as you , a yet pedestal more gaz undisturbed e throug or , or less bronze h frag , iron and - ,
marauding been mentary everything conveyed , in 1 fingers of all value to probability the having and Neapolitan interest more but th - recentl in an museum mosaics once y unearthed been for , , frescoes greater _busy , , as amongs security & nearl c , has y t ,
fro these m the relics interest of the of past a visit . Of to course the actual these removal city ; as s , detract were it much poselfit would be much
handsome greater sible to satisfaction preserve bronzes them and to in statues inspect Pompeii curious the its wonderful domestic , works utensil a of sand art ,
theto mestill more singular specimens , of bread ( shaped , like a larg , _"e cross , - where bun or tea-cake ) , first coffee , fruits ht to , working lihtrather materi than als ,
& cexactly they were brougg , arranged The , lan and of clas the sified usual in dwelling a museum -house collection is so . truthfully shown
in the model p of the . Pompeiian court at the Crystal Palace , that than apartments all of further the that houses descri are We struck p reall saw tion y a is me as mosaic superfluous small as being of as the there . on The ch a ained decidedl represente kitchens dog y , smaller and d and , and sleep also most scal ing the e -
. familiar invitation of salve . " The greatest length of the town is mile stated and to be its three circumference -quarters
nearl of a mile two , its miles breadth . The less streets than half the a narrowness , of which quite astonished y meas I found subsequentl , y they have generally
astonished travellers , more learned than myself , " are paved another with large This pieces pavement of irregular has been lava deep neatly ly rutted dovetaile by the d into chariot one
did wheels not . which fail to point formerly out . rattled But how over any it , " chariot a fact which could our get valet into must h
w som alked e of sing the le streets file , and , puzzled excepting me where ; the the pedestrian " three s -ways niet ave , ' contrivance
no althoug The vehicle ci stepp h not could ing clearly have stones un passed , " derstanding too another , I made b the y a any point _" reason possible of stepp why " ing of " over their * ,
existence in the streetsbut our guide told us that It was in consequence of the heavy , rains which are wont to deluge this
rain part of ever the fall worl s in d th Pompeii at they as were it needed did upon ; and our before certainl devoted in y , if heads the
the only narrow a day subsequentl strjeets of Pompeii y in Nap mi les g , ht qui the c week kly be converted Rome into ,
320 Peom Naples To Pompeii.
320 PEOM NAPLES TO POMPEII .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/32/
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