Church review . n circumference. The ascent from thehay is a gradual slope to the bithe cone. Its height varies after eacheruption, hut is about three-fourth of amile. In his travels around the world. Dr. for the other way takes us by railwayto within a lew rod- of the very we pick our waj caul treaming vent holes and aero-- the ilphur and burning ashes until we -land on the 1 the crater, ami hear below sullen, awful swash of the lake of tire and brimstone. One cannot always see the seethinglake itself because it is generally hiddenby the almost continuous sulphurouswhich rise from it
Church review . n circumference. The ascent from thehay is a gradual slope to the bithe cone. Its height varies after eacheruption, hut is about three-fourth of amile. In his travels around the world. Dr. for the other way takes us by railwayto within a lew rod- of the very we pick our waj caul treaming vent holes and aero-- the ilphur and burning ashes until we -land on the 1 the crater, ami hear below sullen, awful swash of the lake of tire and brimstone. One cannot always see the seethinglake itself because it is generally hiddenby the almost continuous sulphurouswhich rise from its surface. Butthat which is not visible to one sense1- audible to another, and the beatingof that lake of molten fire upon the•the imprisoning mountainme the most awful sound I everheard. More vivid than ever beforewas the dreadful Scripture inwhich typil iie final destruction of those who hate all that is good andtrue. A few days after a vi-it which I oncepaid to this crater, two gentlenfen wirestanding on tl. VIlS AND NAPLES. F. E. Clark visited Naples and ased Vesuvius. lie thus describes the as-cent in Our Journey Around theWorld: There arc two way- of as-cending Vesuvius. The old-fashionedway takes us on horseback from theguides house near Pompeii throne;!!vineyards and villages, and acrosashes and pumice and scoriae of a hun-dred eruptions, to the base of tlcanic cone itself. Then we dismountfrom our horses. leave them in thehands of some villaii kingguides who arc waiting to devour as much ofthe substance of the average traveler asthey can lay their hands on withouting into jail, and then make the sharp,climb on foot to the very a holiday task, by anyand I do not recommend it tohave -tout musclesI ti:al endurance. It i-. however, theI icturesque and romantic method. lod uncon-scious of any danger, when the fumesfrom the pit being blown that way by apeculiarly strong g ivind they by it. Blinded anell headlong into thedreadful lake which boiled and blisbeneath
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