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 410
ANCIENT STABI^. 389 be proper to say, lies at the base of the Peninsula of Sorrento, and occu-pies the site of the ancient Stabige, which was destroyed in the year 79by the same eruption of Vesuvius that overwhelmed Pompeii. Theelder Pliny perished here, as already mentioned, while observing… … ROAD NEAR SORRENTO. modern town derives its name from a castle which was built in thethirteenth century for defensive purposes, and is now in ruins. Frank and Fred desired to see some of the armored ships of war be-longing to the Italian Government, and with this object in view theyobtained,…
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