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Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii (1875)

Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836, Gandy, John P. (John Peter), 1787-1850, Heath, Charles, 1785-1848 · London : Chatto and Windus · leaf 68

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er tlie scoriae upon the surface of the burn-ing lava; and thus did a firework - maker save his stock-in-trade andgunpowder, his house having been surrounded, but not entered, by thelava. HISTORICAL NOTICE. 37 and effects. Torre del Greco is, perhaps, reserved forthe research of the curious. After… … PUBLIC WAYS.—TOMBS. The Public Ways ranked amongst the most important ofthe works of Roman magnificence. Amazing labour, withvast expense, were devoted and combined in extendingthem from the Capitol to the utmost limits of the knownworld; and in many instances they seem to have beencalculated by…

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