St Nicholas [serial] . m Naples very much, which was part ofthe way along the sea-shore and along the mountain-side. We passedthrough Portici and Kecini, and the gate which leads to the amphi-theater of Herculaneum, which was lately discovered, comparative! vspeaking: and then we saw the palace La Favorita, where we aregoing to stop when we go up the mountain. When we reached Pompeii, we all found it more interesting thanany of us had expected. We first went into the museum, where wesaw old jugs for water, and rusty locks and keys and bolts, etc., etc.;skeletons heads and bones, and two or thr
St Nicholas [serial] . m Naples very much, which was part ofthe way along the sea-shore and along the mountain-side. We passedthrough Portici and Kecini, and the gate which leads to the amphi-theater of Herculaneum, which was lately discovered, comparative! vspeaking: and then we saw the palace La Favorita, where we aregoing to stop when we go up the mountain. When we reached Pompeii, we all found it more interesting thanany of us had expected. We first went into the museum, where wesaw old jugs for water, and rusty locks and keys and bolts, etc., etc.;skeletons heads and bones, and two or three specimens of the peoplewho had been found in the houses; and their position plainly showsthe torture and agony they must have suffered when the sconx over-took them in their flight. There is one man who looks as though hehad been running when the scoriae reached him ; no one would knowthat such an object had ever been a man, were it not for the form,which was bent forward, with his hands up to his face. It must have. A VICTIM OF THE LAVA. been an awful time; and then, it being so completely dark, with theair full of ashes, many of them must have ran right into the lava with-out knowing it. The town is all in ruins; nothing is left but the walls and streetsto tell the tale of a once prosperous and thriving city. On many ofthe richest houses can still be seen the frescoes that adorned the walls,and the beautiful designs of the mosaic floors. One would think,from the walls and floors and ceilings, and the few fountains that areleft, that the majority of the people must have lived in more eleganceand refinement than the rich people do who now live in fountains in the floors served for mirrors. We went into one house in which was a little chamber barred offfrom the rest, and in the corner was a pile of dirt, and in it was em-bedded the skeleton of a man who is said to have been imprisonedthere when the calamity occurred; and, his hands and feet beingchained, the poor w
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