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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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count on Vesuvius ;each of its eruptions has its own characteristics. The present eruption has supplied Dr. Matteucciwith conchisive data proving that there is a defi-nite periodicity to the eruptions of Vesuvius, thecycle being, he tells us, thirty-four years. ^ The scenes of terror and elementary ScffT6S of • Terror and fury attending the flight of the un-Grandeur. )jappy villagers, a class which haslived on the sides of Vesuvius for fifty genera-tions, are best given in the words of an eye-witness of the great lava-flow on April 7 : Along the road I met hundreds of families in flight,carrying their few miserable possessions. The spectacleof collapsed carts and fainting women was frequent.When one reached the lava-streams, a stupefying spec-tacle pre.sented it.self. From a point on the mountainbetween the towns I .saw four rivers of molten fire, oneof which, two hundred feet wide and over forty feetdeep, was moving slowly and majesticallj onward, de- THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 535
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A VIEW OF MOUNT VESUVIUS, SHOWING THE ROYAI^ OBSEKVATORY, OF WHICH DR. MATTEUCCI IS DIRECTOR, AND THE HERMITAGE IN THE FOKEGROUND. vouring vineyards and olive groves. I witnessed thedestruction of a farmhouse whicli was enveloped onthree sides by lava. Immediately overhead the greatcrater was belching incandescent rocks and scoriae foran incredible distance. The whole summit was wreathedwith flames, and a i)erpetual roar was heard. Ever andanon the cone of the volcano was encircled with vividelectric phenomena, amid wliicii a downpour of liquidfire on all sides of the crater was revealed in magnificentawfulness. In the evening there was a frightful shockof earthquake, which was repeated at 2 oclock on Sun-day morning (April 8). Simultaneously the lava-streams redoubled their on-rush, and men women, andchildren fled precipitately toward the sea. The lava hadinvaded the road behind them. Tlie present eruption is believed to be Rescuing ... the one 01 the most destructive since thatVilla

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