The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-04-10

blue stockings Of the 18th century, and
all others to come, and the ihanklcss,
reckless, and ridiculous profit Of that
whole race ofraseai,y, the guides, cicc-
rones, abbes, and antqunrians
But italian ,igor is OF all things the
| easiest exhausted, where it has not the
/ lash or the bride to feed its waste, and
the cities slumbered for twenty years
more, till, Ill, a Duke, who WIS Dig
ding for marbles 10 burn into mortar,
found a Hercules, and n whole heap of
fractured beauties, row of Greek coz
lanns, and a little temple. Aelin the
ei5ies slumbered, i'll in l73S, a king of
Naples, on whom lioht may tho earth
rest, commenced DIGGING, aud streets,
temple, theatres, opened out 10 the sun,
ID he az rest no more.
| So few details Of the original cataelro-
phe are to be found in. historians, that
We can scarcely estimate lhe-aetnal hs-
maj suli" nc which is, after all, IN e
tie only tFng to be considered rs-
foftme. 1t IS probable that liz populd-
zion OF, at least, Pompcii, Ind time to
make ,hcir escape. a pedlar's pack
would contain all the valuahles left at
Pompeii, and the people, who had time
thus to clear their premises, must hayo
been singularly fond of hazard II they
staid lingering within the reach Of the e.
fnption. Bu some melancholy eyidcn-
len al
| tul.
In one of the last excavations, made
by the French, four female skeletons
were found lying together, with their Or
naments, bracelets aud rings, aud with
their little hoard OF CONS in gold and sill
yer. They probably had been sui
located by tho sulphureous vapor. In
a wine cellar, known by its jars ranged
round the wall, a male skeleton, suppo-
sed to be that of Il master BY his seal
ring, was found as il he had persisted in
the attempt at forcing the door. In an
other a male skeleton was found with an
axe in his hand beside door which he
was breaking open. In prison the
! skeletons OF men chained to the wall
were found. Iii were NOT like ai1ecta-
ton 10 regret agony that has passed a.
way so long, II might be conceived as a
oalliaton ofthat agony that ii was pro-
badly the work OF a moment, that the
Vapor OF the eruption extingulshed lie
atonce, ard that these uniorlunates pc
rished, not because they were left be-
bind in thn general flight, but were left
behind because they had persisted.
A large portion ofP ompeii IS now IN
covered. This was an easy operation,
for its covering was ashes, themselves
covered by vegetable soil, and tlat again
covered by yordure and vineyards.
Herculaneum reserves its deyelopemcnt
for another generation, its cover is hG0,
solid as rock and dat again covered
with two villages and royal palace ;
aud the whole under the protection OF u
still surer guard, Neapolitan stupidity,
poverty and Incidence. The forum,
the narrow streets, the litle Greek hou-
ses, with their remnants Of ornamental
paintings, their corridoes and then tas-
selated floors, are seen, as they might
have been seen, the dav before the orup-
ton. The surrounding landscape has
the grandeur that the eye LOOKS Tor in a
volcanic country. Wild hills, fragments
of old lavas, richly broken shores, ,nd
IN the centre tho most picturesque aud
Iblime of all volc nos, Nesuyius, throw
ING up its eternal columns of SMOKE 70
the heavens.
4 Calapdsr tor 1927, whieh, miM a
6ttle D0riaiign, tOiH satt airy State in
/ the Union:
Januoyg--Cold weather will be felt
this month and female gossps will
huddle together, sip their tea, and SLAM
der their neigfbors, while the politi-
clan reads the newspapers, and curses