Rollo in Naples (1858) (14777399582)

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Title: Rollo in Naples
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
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Publisher: New York : Sheldon
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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on of Naples. Vesuvius. Smoke and flame. Chapter IV.Situation of Naples. Naples is situated on a bay which has the rep-utation of being the most magnificent sheet ofwater in the world. It is bordered on every sideby romantic cliffs and headlands, or by green andbeautiful slopes of land, which are adorned withvineyards and groves of orange and lemon trees,and dotted with white villas ; while all alongthe shore, close to the margin of the water, thereextends an almost uninterrupted line of cities andtowns round almost the whole circumference ofthe bay. The greatest of these cities is Naples. But the crowning glory of the scene is thegreat volcano Vesuvius, which rises a vast greencone from the midst of the plain, and emits fromits summit a constant stream of smoke. Intimes of eruption this smoke becomes very denseand voluminous, and alternates from time totime with bursts of what seems to be flame,and with explosive ejections of red-hot stonesor molten lava. Besides the cities and towns
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Situation of Naples. 79 Danger from eruptions. The map. that are now to be seen along the shore at thefoot of the slopes of the mountain, there aremany others buried deep beneath the ground,having been overwhelmed by currents of lavafrom the volcano, or by showers of ashes andstones, in eruptions which took place ages ago. Of course there is every probability that therewill be more eruptions in time to come, andthat many of the present towns will also be over-whelmed and destroyed, as their predecessorshave been. But these eruptions occur usually atsuch distant intervals from each other, that thepeople think it is not probable that the town inwhich they live will be destroyed in their day ;and so they are quiet. Of course, however,whenever they hear a rumbling in the mountainbehind them, or notice any other sign of an ap-proaching convulsion, they naturally feel some-what nervous until the danger passes by. Naples is built on the northern shore of the bayYou will see by the map on the