The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . Thusa calamity so horrible in its nature has had the singular efiect of addinganother charm to the environs of Xaples, by embalming the remains of twoancient cities for the inspection of modern travellers. The general aspect ofthe ruins may be gathered from the frontispiece, and will be stUl fiu-therillustrated by another photograph which we annex, also taken from the morerecent excavations. It is this that renders a visit to Pompe
The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . Thusa calamity so horrible in its nature has had the singular efiect of addinganother charm to the environs of Xaples, by embalming the remains of twoancient cities for the inspection of modern travellers. The general aspect ofthe ruins may be gathered from the frontispiece, and will be stUl fiu-therillustrated by another photograph which we annex, also taken from the morerecent excavations. It is this that renders a visit to Pompeii so pre-eminently , indeed, possesses far more striking and celebrated monuments thancan be found here, and leaves on the spectator a deeper sense of imperialgrandeur. None but a people-king, the sovereign of the greater part of theknown world, could have reared the Colosseum, or have lined the AppianWay for a space of two mUes with magnificent tombs, or have conceived andexecuted the vastness of Caracallas baths, or covered the Palatine Hill withthose splendid palaces which, through the liberality of the French emperor. RECENT EXCAVATIONS,. THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 13 are now revealina; their enormous substructions to the o-aze of a fiftiethgeneration. These remains are unequalled, and will probably continue to beso tin the end of time. They cannot fail to strike even the most phlegmaticspectator with astonishment and admiration; but beyond these feelings theyawaken no thoughts on which the mind much loves to dwell. They speakof military rule and despotic power, of oppression abroad and tyranny athome. They are the tombs and may be regarded as the monuments ofcenturies of Roman liberty and prowess, and nothing less could have achievedor deserved them. But of the commonwealth itself, the true parent of theseremains, the actual monuments are mean and few, and of the private life ofthe Romans there is not a trace. An excursion to Pompeii, besides being the most int
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