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 380
m very ancient times. The ge-ographer Strabo, who was bornsixty years before the Christian era, speaks of it as though it had not been active for a long while.Here is what he says in describing his visit to the volcanic mountain: Mount Vesuvius is covered with beautiful meadows, with the excep-tion… … CERES.—[Pompeian wall-painting.] 360 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. One might conclude from this that the mountain had once burned, andpossessed fiery abysses, and had become extinguished when the mate-rial was spent. And just from this cause its fertility may arise, as inthe case of…
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