Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ning rock andhot cinders rained downupon the ship, and the seabegan to sink away from thecoast so rapidly that his sea-men advised him to hurryaway. He ordered his vessel toproceed to the little town ofStabise, on the southernshore of the bay, a shortdistance from Pompeii, butstill within reach of the fall-ing cinders. Here he foundhis friend Pomponianus ingreat alarm, about to hurry away in his vessel. Pliny quieted his friends fears, and to show that he was not alarmed, ordered a bath, ate a hearty dinner and lay down to sleep. But the court of the house was fast filling with cinders, and soon his friends aroused him, and with pil-lows on their heads to pro-tect themselves from the shower of falling stones, all hurried to the sea-shore. It was now day, but so dark that they could only see by the light of torches. When they reached the sea they found it raging so furiously that they could not hope to escape in their vessels. Terrible fumes of sulphur now began to suffocate the party.
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ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. Pliny, 358 Persons and Places in Europe. thinking probably to escape them, lay down upon the sand by the sea whilehis friends hastened away. His slaves came and raised him. but they hadno sooner done so than he fell back dead from suffocation. Meanwhile like terrible scenes were going on all around the bay. Tor-rents of hot mud were falling in continual streams covering everything.This continued for eight days, filling the cities to the roofs of the houses.Then storms of ashes and streams of lava finished the work of buryingHerculaneum and Pompeii completely out of sight. Years passed by and all traces of the cities were lost, no one knewexactly where they had stood and in time another town was built above theirgrave. An aqueduct was carried directly over a part of Pompeii, withoutdiscovering what lay beneath. But one day, in digging a well, several piecesof statuary were discovered. The king of Naples at once ordered excava-tions on a large scale and ever

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