History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . unts of ^^•ildboars. To form an idea of the region as it then was we mustsuppress the cone of black cinders over 1,300 feet high, whichrises above the old plateau and from which the traveller has anincomparable view of Xaples, its bay. its islands, and the cities TITUS AND DOMITIAN, 79 TO 9(j 681 that lie close together along those enchanted shores, while beneathhis feet the mouth of the volcano is filled with threatening noises,smoke, and with sulphurous vapours, which leave here and thereon the
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . unts of ^^•ildboars. To form an idea of the region as it then was we mustsuppress the cone of black cinders over 1,300 feet high, whichrises above the old plateau and from which the traveller has anincomparable view of Xaples, its bay. its islands, and the cities TITUS AND DOMITIAN, 79 TO 9(j 681 that lie close together along those enchanted shores, while beneathhis feet the mouth of the volcano is filled with threatening noises,smoke, and with sulphurous vapours, which leave here and thereon the stones that have fallen on its rim brilliant tints of red,yellow, orange, and violet, as if to place upon the brow of thesombre mountain the remains of a shattered diadem. An earthquake, which,, on the 5th of February, 63, shookCampania and overthrew almost the entire city of Pompeii, pro-claimed that the subterranean fires were resuming their , however, returned and lasted sixteen years,- until the middleof summer, 79 Then the ground began to heave again ; wells. Souvenir of the Earthquake of 63 at Pompeii.^ and springs dried up, the sea boiled, and dull rumblings Avereheard. Finally, on the 23rd of August, an immense cloud, resem-bling a gigantic pine, whose top rose nearly 10,000 feet high,appeared above Vesuvius, dark, and spreading night around it, butconstantly rent by lightning. Pliny the naturalist, who was incommand of the fieet at Misenum, was astonished by this strangephenomenon, and wished with scientific curiosity to study it nearat hand. He had the galleys fitted out to take on board themarines stationed at Eesina, and the dwellers on the coast, whowere wild with terror. But a shoal had suddenly been formed, Seu., QufTst. nat., vi. 1. Ilercuhuieuiu was hkewise partially destroyed. Nuceria, andeven Naples, sutïered from the shock. According to an inscription 76. Herculaneum was again disturbed by an earthquakein that year, unles
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