Stories of persons and places in Europe . ir feet the broadplain of Campagna Felice, from which, near the foreground, stands the tallcone of Vesuvius. Around it, like a vast amphitheater, rise the shores ofthe bay with the city of Naples upon its northern side, the buried ruins ofHerculaneum and Pompeii on the east and Stabia3, where Pliny made hisfatal visit upon the south, opposite Naples. The fate of its buried sistersseems^ to have no effect upon the prosperity of Naples, neither do thecalamities that it has suffered from its nearness to the burning monster. In 1872, during an unusually se
Stories of persons and places in Europe . ir feet the broadplain of Campagna Felice, from which, near the foreground, stands the tallcone of Vesuvius. Around it, like a vast amphitheater, rise the shores ofthe bay with the city of Naples upon its northern side, the buried ruins ofHerculaneum and Pompeii on the east and Stabia3, where Pliny made hisfatal visit upon the south, opposite Naples. The fate of its buried sistersseems^ to have no effect upon the prosperity of Naples, neither do thecalamities that it has suffered from its nearness to the burning monster. In 1872, during an unusually severe eruption the city was covered_ with^ashower of ashes and two hundred lives or more were lost. It is oftenshaken with violent earthquakes. But none of these can drive the peoplefrom their beautiful Naples. a +t,o «+Wpt* The city itself is not very lovely, the houses are shabby and the streetsanything but clean. But the hills around it are covered and draped withthe richest of verdure. The cactus stands blooming among groves of palm,. THE GATE OF HERCULANEUM, AND PLACE OF TOMBS. orange, lemon and stone; fine villas, monasteries and houses on numberless little eminences are linked together by chains of ™eyards orchardsand gardens. And here the Italian sun shines its brightest, the zephyrsblow their softest, the sea puts on its deepest blue and the mountains their most glorious purple. ., two ornamental knobs upon the horns of the bay, are tneislands of Ischia and Capri. The former upon the northern ?»™ °**>*bay, once contained the most lively volcano of the whole Burning^ Field,which extended in a chain of craters from here to Vesuvius. Since the latter 360 Persons and Places in Europe. v has broken out, Mount Eperneo on Ischia has been mostly silent, but hotsprings and jets of gas and steam show that all is not quiet beneath. In 1883 earthquake occurred here, just as the season for visitors was at itsheight, for Ischia is a very popular reso
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