Herculaneum, past, present & future . queposition, and has preserved what neither Neapolis, Cumae,Stabiae, nor even Pompeii can ever yield. For the entombmentof Herculaneum ^ was both sudden, complete, and secure, andthis was not the case with the other Campanian cities nor withPompeii. A glance at the map of Campania (Plates i and 2)will show that Pompeii is about five and three-quarter milesfrom the foot of Vesuvius, while Herculaneum is considerablynearer, a distance of only four and a half miles. From theaccount of the catastrophe in the letter of the younger Pliny ^we learn that Pompeii w
Herculaneum, past, present & future . queposition, and has preserved what neither Neapolis, Cumae,Stabiae, nor even Pompeii can ever yield. For the entombmentof Herculaneum ^ was both sudden, complete, and secure, andthis was not the case with the other Campanian cities nor withPompeii. A glance at the map of Campania (Plates i and 2)will show that Pompeii is about five and three-quarter milesfrom the foot of Vesuvius, while Herculaneum is considerablynearer, a distance of only four and a half miles. From theaccount of the catastrophe in the letter of the younger Pliny ^we learn that Pompeii was ultimately buried by the rainof ashes which the wind, blowing from the north - west,gradually sent over the distant city. The process, thoughmore destructive and terrible, was very similar to that whichwas seen during the most recent eruption. The inhabitantshad every reason to hope that their city might be saved from 1 See Part I. Chapter III. 2 Pliny, Ep. vi. i6 and 20; Ruggiero, Scati d Ercolano, 1885, pp. v seq. CLChapter
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