. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . eater part of the inhabitants of the townsand villages had time to escape ; but in Pompeii, as well asHerculaneum, there were some still left, when a vast mass ofcinders, mingled with stones, mud, and water, fell upon them andburied them completely from the sight. Every living thing inthem immediately perished. The ashes and mud covered thestreets, and even penetrated into many of the houses. The thick-ness of this mass of earth and cinders was
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . eater part of the inhabitants of the townsand villages had time to escape ; but in Pompeii, as well asHerculaneum, there were some still left, when a vast mass ofcinders, mingled with stones, mud, and water, fell upon them andburied them completely from the sight. Every living thing inthem immediately perished. The ashes and mud covered thestreets, and even penetrated into many of the houses. The thick-ness of this mass of earth and cinders was from thirty to sixtyfeet. At Pompeii, it hardened by time into a compact soil; whileat Herculaneum it became a solid body of rock, called these cities disappeared, and were forgotten for fifteencenturies. Vesuvius has experienced other eruptions, at intervals, fromthat time to the present day. Nearly a hundred are some cases, the mountain throws out streams of lava, whichruns down the sides of the mountain, and after some yearshardens into rock ; and in others, it only sends forth smoke,ashes, and scoria. 12 MOUNT VESUVIUS. \ Ks r VMS IT NOW APPEARS. BCRING AN ERUPTION. % ©issit to % Crater of Desufnus in 1855. This celebrated mountain lies exactly east of Naples, and ob-trudes itself upon your notice from every part of that city. Asyou walk about the streets, as you traverse the bay, or ride intothe country, it seems to pursue you, to gaze at and frown uponyou. By the road, its top is ten or twelve miles from the town ;but in a direct line, it is less than six. To the stranger who isimpressed with its history, it has ever an ominous look ; but itis decidedly a favorite with the dwellers around it. Familiarityhas shorn it of its horrors, and the romance of its convulsionsseems to be a compensation for its destructiveness. Could itsfires be forever quenched by a royal edict, I have no idea that thepeople would consent to it. For ten days after our arrival,
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