Correspondence of Palestine Tourists Comprising a Series of Letters By George a
Correspondence of Palestine Tourists Comprising a Series of Letters By George a
George Albert Smith
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In many places beggars thronged us by multitudes. We visited Pompeii, distant a few miles from Naples, and spent several hours in walking through tlie streets and examining its interesting and mournful ruins. In the year A. B. 63, the city was partially destroyed by an earthquake. The inhabitants abandoned the town but returned directly afterwards, and it had regained nearly all its splendor, when, at mid-day, on November 23d, A. D. 79, the eruption destined to destroy it commenced. The wooden ...roofs of the houses were either set on fire or broken in by the weight of the matter deposited on them. It is thought that, inasmuch as but few skeletons have been found, nearly all of the inhabit- ants were enabled to escape. They returned soon afterwards to dig the soil in which the town was buried, and carried away the valuables left in their houses, and some precious objects from the public edifices. The villa of Diomede is one of the largest establishments. The remains of seventeen per- sons were found there during the excavations.
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