A university tramp . hape, and is almost one entire city from Naples to Cas-tellammare. Pompeii is sixteen miles distant and the spacebetween the two places is almost solidly built up with vil-lages and towns, the boundary line between which itwould puzzle one to find. Around the base of thevolcano is one of the most thickly inhabited spots onearth. The dwellings and buildings even extend up theside of the mountain. Fruit orchards are to be foundtwo-thirds of the way from the base to the crater. Herein this valley and on the sides of this mountain multitudesof people swarm in busy life notwith
A university tramp . hape, and is almost one entire city from Naples to Cas-tellammare. Pompeii is sixteen miles distant and the spacebetween the two places is almost solidly built up with vil-lages and towns, the boundary line between which itwould puzzle one to find. Around the base of thevolcano is one of the most thickly inhabited spots onearth. The dwellings and buildings even extend up theside of the mountain. Fruit orchards are to be foundtwo-thirds of the way from the base to the crater. Herein this valley and on the sides of this mountain multitudesof people swarm in busy life notwithstanding that theylive and walk over the buried ruins of former cities, andthat the angry mountain many times has belched forthfire and streams of lava which carried destruction far andnear. Pompeii was buried in A. D. 79. You enter hergates, walk up the streets, go into her houses, visit hertemples, baths and theatres, stand in her forum andrealize what a scene was here presented on that fatal day .--- -,.-. **&. Pompeii. — 173 — when she was buried from the sight of the world. Menat their work, priests at the altar, sick people in bed,dogs as they lay on the floor, were overwhelmed andhave been found in the same position 1800 years after-wards. In many instances nothing but the skeleton and thecavity formerly occupied by the body, long since decayed,are left; in such cases, when the pick of the workmanreveals a cavity, the work ceases and a fluid preparationof plaster of paris is poured into this ghastly mold, andtime given for it to harden. Then the earth is dug awayand an exact model is obtained ol the person or animalthat perished there eighteen centuries ago. Thework of excavating the city is in the hands of the Italiangovernment and every ounce of dirt is carefully siftedbefore being carried away. The small theatre which hada seating capacity of 2,000 or more, is almost the exactcounterpart of our modern theatre buildings. The streetsare all paved with lava from the
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