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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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and his body was bent nearly double.No wonder that when he died (27 A. D.) the people shouted with delight andcried, Tiberius to the Tiber. Capri became once more the resort of re-spectable people, who had been kept away by the royal guard lest theyshould disturb their emperors revelry. One of the greatest curiosities about Capri is the famous Blue Grotto Italy. 361 in a steep cliff by the sea. Everything within this cave is intensely blue.The walls look like the deepest sky in summer. Blue clouds seem to befloating about overhead. The water at the bottom, and even ones clothingis all of the same indigo hue. A flight of steps, cut out of the rock, seem tobe real sapphire stones. The water, besides being blue, has a silvery lookthat o-ives everything in it a very curious appearance. A man in a bathingsuit plunges into it and straightway he looks like a moving statue. Thewhole place is strange, weird and unearthly. No one has ever been ableto solve the mystery of its wonderful blueness.
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HOUSE OF GLAUCUS IN POMPEII. Mount Etna.—One interesting side of a volcano can not be seen atMount Vesuvius. This is the inside of the terrible cauldron from which thefiery storms issue. The opening is so squarely in the middle of his sharpcone and the sides so abrupt that the only way to look down into his throatwould be by going over it in a balloon. But at Mount Etna one can get afine view of a volcanic crater. The opening is slanting so that from acertain point on the margin, one can see the whole great basin two miles 362 Persons and Places in Europe. around like a lake of pure white smoke on the top of the cone. It is everboiling over its shores, and tumbling cascades of vapor down the dismalsteeps. Then when for a moment the wind blows a rift in this cloud of va-por the observer can see clear down into the deep black pit in the heart ofthe mountain. This is one of the most awful mountain views in the world,and it is made yet more startling by the contrast between the interior

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