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The Living Age Volume 171

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...of it could be recognized in old Greek story. The earliest volcanic explosion of which any contemporary account has survived is that of Vesuvius in the year 79, whereby the towns of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae were destroyed. For the main facts of this memorable event we are indebted to the two well-known letters of the younger Pliny to Tacitus, and to an examination of the ruins themselves, and of the volcanic materials under which they have been buried. But the details may be more vividly appreciated from the accounts of similar recent calamities. The graphic narratives of the eye-witnesses and survivors of the New Zealand eruption of last June are especially interesting from this point of view, for there is a close analogy between the phenomena of that eruption and those which must have characterized the famous outburst of Vesuvius. It is worth while making a comparison between the two widely separated catastrophes. In the first century of our era, and doubtless for many previous generations, Vesuvius was what would now be called an extinct volcano. Rising some three thousand feet above the sea, it formed a notable landmark in one of the fairest landscapes of the Roman Empire. Its slopes were richly cultivated, save around the summit, where the loose volcanic cinders had not yet been covered by the mantle of vegetation that during the previous centuries had gradually been creeping up the mountain. The barren crest surrounded a deep crater, whose rugged walls, tapestried with wild vines, enclosed the level space in which Spartacus and-his three thousand companions encamped. Intelligent observers had noticed the probable volcanic origin of the mountain, and tradition spoke of its having formerly emitted fire. But to the surrounding...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154954852
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 650
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154954854
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1143 gr


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