to suspect that themountain was a slumbering volcano. Wild183 Masterpieces of Science vines were growing over the sides of the craterand it was in the natural fortress formed by thisgreat amphitheatre that Spartacus the Thracian,with his little band of gladiators, took up hisposition at the… … Fig- 55.—-Summit of Vesuvius in 1767 newed activity was from a series of earthquakeswhich began, as-far as we know, in a. d. 63, andcontinued intermittently for about sixteen years.These disturbances culminated in the greateruption of a. d. 79, which has been describedin two letters written by…
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