The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 369
es in great danger, as thevolcano has not been in eruption for several centuries. We passed near Lake Lucrinus, which was famous for its oystersin ancient times, and is still famous for those excellent bivalves.Then we saw the more celebrated Lake Avernus, which the ancientsused to regard as the… … ANCIENT ARCH. nus, which is a sloping passageway in the solid rock or earth, pre-ceded by a boy carrying a torch and followed b}^ our guide. The airAvas so warm that it threw us into a violent perspiration, and at theend of the passage a jet of hot gas rose from the fissure. Our torch-bearer…
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