. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph S3. V - <7 V^ ;r rt*JL3N*i -*v The Street of the Tombs, Pompeii Italian $ourne$8 A Day inPompeii Ft 1 %?£ - Herculaneum which all the speakers begin their observations withaHo! my Lepidus ! and Ha! myDiomed! In themeantime we return to the present day, and step downthe Street of Plenty along with Ventisei.) It is proper, after seeing the sites of some of the prin-cipal temples in Pompeii (such as those of Jupiter andVenus), to cross the fields that cover a great breadth ofthe buried city, and

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. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph S3. V - <7 V^ ;r rt*JL3N*i -*v The Street of the Tombs, Pompeii Italian $ourne$8 A Day inPompeii Ft 1 %?£ - Herculaneum which all the speakers begin their observations withaHo! my Lepidus ! and Ha! myDiomed! In themeantime we return to the present day, and step downthe Street of Plenty along with Ventisei.) It is proper, after seeing the sites of some of the prin-cipal temples in Pompeii (such as those of Jupiter andVenus), to cross the fields that cover a great breadth ofthe buried city, and look into the amphitheatre, where, aseverybody knows, the lions had no stomach for Glaucus onthe morning of the fatal eruption. The fields are nowplanted with cotton, and of course we thought thosecommonplaces about the wonder the Pompeians wouldfeel could they come back to see that New-World plantgrowing above their buried homes. We might have toldthem, the day of our visit, that this cruel plant, so long-watered with the tears of slaves, and fed with the bloodof men, was now an exile from its

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