The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . nel ; and having concreted, they thus remain truevolcanic casts, to be seen by remote generations, asnow, in the Museum of Naples. Because the soil had formed, and grass and trees hadgrown, and successive generations of men had uncon-•ciously walked, tilled the ground, or built their houses I02 BENJAMIN SILUMAN over the entombed cities, and because they were cov»ered by volcanic cinders, ashes, a
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . nel ; and having concreted, they thus remain truevolcanic casts, to be seen by remote generations, asnow, in the Museum of Naples. Because the soil had formed, and grass and trees hadgrown, and successive generations of men had uncon-•ciously walked, tilled the ground, or built their houses I02 BENJAMIN SILUMAN over the entombed cities, and because they were cov»ered by volcanic cinders, ashes, and projected stones,does anyone hesitate to admit that they were once realcities ; that at the time of their destruction they stoodupon what was then the upper surface; that theirstreets once rang with the noise of business, their hallsand theatres with the voice of pleasure ; that in an eviltime they were overwhelmed by a volcanic tempest fromVesuvius, and their name and place for more than sev-enteen centuries blotted out from the earth and forgot-ten ? The tragical story is legibly perused by everyobserver, and all alike, whether learned or unlearned,agree in the conclusions to be SILLIMAN, Benjamin, Jr., an American sci-entist, son of the preceding, born in New Haven,Conn., December 14, 1816; died there, January 14,1885. He was graduated at Yale in 1837, and forsome time afterward was an assistant professor inthe departments of chemistry, mineralogy, andgeology in Yale, and pursued original studies inthese branches of science and their application tothe arts. In 1838 he became associate editor withhis father of the American Journal of Science, 2i^^in 1846 part proprietor. In 1846 he was appointedthe first Yale Professor of Chemistry Applied tothe Arts, and in the same year appeared his FirstPrinciples of Chemistry, of which 50,000 copieswere quickly sold. During the winter of 1845-46he gave a series of lectures on AgriculturalChemistry at New Orleans. From 1849 t
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