Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 76
cious movables, accompanied only by a single slave, to thesea, which he never reached alive. Plis daughter, two children,and other members of his family and household sought protectionin the subterranean vaults, which, by the help of the wine-jarsalready stored there, and the provisions which they… … -JO CONXLUSIVE EVIDENCE, The strong \aults and narrow openings to the day protectedthem, indeed, from the killing cinders; but the heat, sufficient tochar wood, and volatilize the more subtle part of the ashes, couldnot be kcDt out by such means. The vital air was changed intoa sulphurous vapor,…
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