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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Januarius, crowds, anddisquietude everywhere. Ever louder thunders the mountain. It is midnight, and againthe eastern sky is illumined by a wild glare ; again the sea shines red even to its depths ;—how slowly pass the hours ! All at once—the mountain is silent; suddenly, instantly ! A dread mysterious still-ness seems to weigh on every heart. Every one fears the worst, and watches in halffeverish, half slumbering anxiety, for the day. But the day does not come. The hour of sunrise is long past, but a gray, desolate twilight still broods over thecity. Not a sound is heard. The air we breathe is thick and suffocating. Hastily weopen the window-shutters and step out on the balcony. Horror ! What a sight! Is 39o ITALY. the dreadful fate of Pompeii about to overtake us ? There is no sky, no sea, no earth, noair, to be seen :—the landscape lies before us like a dreary corpse beneath a shroud ofashes. And still they are falling on head and shoulders, filling our eyes, and nostrils,—
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IN THE HARBOUR OF PORTICI. falling, falling, falling in thick Hakes like black snow, and rising higher and higher onevery flat surface! Whoever witnessed the last tremendous eruption of 1872, will certainly rememberthat gruesome Sunday morning (28th of April), when the daylight would never come, asthe most terrific of all the experiences of the time. This rain of ashes usually lasts for days, and the wind carries them to great distances.Stuff from Vesuvius has been known to fall in distant Calabria. But this phenomenongenerally heralds the last act of the drama, which closes with tremendous storms born as THE BEAUTIFUL, DANGEROUS NEIGHBOUR. 39i it were within the crater, when lightnings flash and play around its smoking edge asthough Jupiter were hurling Olympian weapons against the Titan Typhceus. ####### Whosoever, for ages past, has visited Rome, has endeavoured to see the Pope;whosoever visits the City of the Sirens on the Bay ascends Vesuvius. Nor is this eithera dangerous, or a

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