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 393
s. Among the most interesting things that we sawthere were the casts of bodies found in the ashes. During the centu-ries that they lay underground the bodies of those who perished by theeruption disappeared altogether, with the exception sometimes of thebones, and left cavities in the earth of… … obtain casts of these places, but none were successful until one of theofficials hit upon the plan of pouring melted tallow into the openings,and obtained the cast which he desired. In many instances the casts of openings or cavities were of novalue, while in others they were of great importance.…
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