. Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary. g, andmade us all look like millers. However, we reached Pompeii at last, and I canonly say, in a sentence, it exceeds in interest all I have seen before, even in Rome, c. II. sturgeons autobiography. 227 I walked on, on, on, from twelve to four oclock, lost in wonder amid the miles ofstreets of this buried city, now silent and open to the gazers eye. To convey aworthy idea of it to you, would be impossible, even in a ream of paper. We entered at the Street of Tombs, which
. Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary. g, andmade us all look like millers. However, we reached Pompeii at last, and I canonly say, in a sentence, it exceeds in interest all I have seen before, even in Rome, c. II. sturgeons autobiography. 227 I walked on, on, on, from twelve to four oclock, lost in wonder amid the miles ofstreets of this buried city, now silent and open to the gazers eye. To convey aworthy idea of it to you, would be impossible, even in a ream of paper. We entered at the Street of Tombs, which was outside the gate. In it werehouses, shops, taverns, a fountain, and several tombs. The house of Diomed greatlyinterested us. We went upstairs and downstairs, and then into the cellars wherewere still the amphorae, or wine-bottles, leaning- against the wall in rows, the pointedend being stuck into the ground, and the rows set together in dry dust, in exactlythe same way as we place articles in sawdust. In the cellars were found eighteenskeletons of women who had fled there for shelter. Th- photograph I send shows. THE HOUSE AND GARDEN OF , POMPEII. the garden, with covered walk round it, and tank for live fish. In this street wereseveral places for seats in the shade, made in great semicircles, so that a score ofpersons could rest at once. Near the gate was the niche where the soldier wasfound who kept his watch while others lied. We could not think of going up anddown all the streets ; it would need many days to see all. The city was, I shouldthink, a watering-place for the wealthy. No poor class of houses has yet beendiscovered. It was paved with great slabs of stone, which are worn deeply withcart or chariot wheels. Across the streets were huge stepping-stones, just wideenough to allow wheels to go on each side ; but either they had no horses to thecars in these streets, or else they must have been trained to step over. In someplaces were horsing-blocks, in others
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