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FROM NAPLES TO POMPEII. 323
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guise there was of sleep less , it of was the so awfulness easy and of natural death ; here and to than my in mind the
gaud ghastl y y trapp figure ings of in San Milan Carlo cathedral Borromeo . in his crystal shrine and
After some discussion between our driver and our guide , we - were extremity next of driven and a to . little the amp beyond hitheatre the rest , which of the is at excavations the eastern .
preservation It is 430 feet We in looked length , down 335 feet in it breadth for awh , ile and reflecting in excellent oil
the fearful scenes . it had witnessed upon recalling too the , still fairer hitheatre of the Coliseum at , Homewhich we had but
recentl amp y also looked down upon , when flooded , with moonlight . I did not then know that therewas a special matter of historic
interest connected with this , amphitheatre , from a quarrel which arose at one of the gladiatorial fights with the
inwho habitants had come of the as nei guests ghbouring to the town entertainm of Nuceria ent _, , in now the . Nocera reign ,
jud Emperor of gm the ent Emperor upon seat , the and Nero Pompeiian . entertainments the The sentence case s was was passed their broug dep ht by rivation b that efore amiable Csesar for ten 's
years In a of . p all . 63 theatrical , four years later , a great . part of the city was was destroyed singing by at an Nap earth les quake according . The to a year writer after in , a whilst voluminous _"CSTero
a encyclopa . d . 79 in 3 dia that , a memorable similar , catastrop month of he August occurred came ; and the " then first re in
-Plin corded the , eruption Elder of lost Vesuvius his life , " in and which to the which celebrated , the greater naturalist part ,
of As the y we present at last desolation drove , out o to _£ Pompeii rejoin , the is living to be , traced leaving . the final
resting-place of so many behind us , we came upon some obtain being pleasant cultivated permission evidences in to of this gather industry neig a hbourhood in few the specim cotton . ens I was fields of the long which flower ing are to
, full when -blown I came flower upon and a man one just with fading a smal with l bouquet , two , or comprising three pods a *
full of cottonfor , which an exorbitant , price was asked , but a little less taken ,
of Before refreshm starting ent . and homeward having s been we recommended experienced a to decided " Diom need ed's
House" _io the , wretched inn of that name we repaired . But day as the may ' s refreshment adven , be jud tures ged , : like from " Lunched the the " following House prin , " ci was pall entry y less off in than a Jiies journal second flavoured of -rate the ,
with cheesegrapes and lemonade , for which nine francs , were ,
From Naples To Pompeii. 323
FROM _NAPLES TO POMPEII . 323
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/35/
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