The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-11-01
P0MPEIL.

IlblC .SAtlI w hR RANtRR III NiA9 NOAAA
SO full Of suggestion as that rich plain
whith h stretches inlandlfFom the bealiti-
ful Bay Of Naples, under the slopes of
Vesugius. One does not know which
thoMRt to offer first, so thick is the
very air with memories. If one .ap-
proaches from Sorrento one sees the
landscape slowly grow less magnificent
and luxuriant, but perhaps more fertile
as the gorgeous flowers which give a
tropical esplendorA to the rocky road
gradually yield to fields and vineyards,
where peasants drive their plow oxen,
just as Virgil saw them, and irrigate
their land by methods as primitive as
their plows, Ona the other side Of the
bay, lust above the Grotto Of Pozzuoli,
is Virgil's Tomb. Farther away, round
the Cape of Posilippn, is. Pozzholi. 1T
was called Puteoli when Saint Paul
came untoits little harbor, on board the
ship whose sign was Castor and Pollux;
and his feet must. have trodden those
great rough stones which pave the APP
plan Way. Farther. of still afe Lake
Avernus and the cave of that Cumean
SibYl, whose dark saving set Augustus
y puAN snh dllIl AEEbO lut G1lHt-DOHIl
God Lastly, there is the Cape Of
Alsenrlin, whore Pliny ahe Elder lay
with his fleet on the day that Pompeii
was destroyed. kE ~ E8Fs
Asawe turn inland we pass few
houses an inn, church-and become
every moment more and more aware OF
me awful nearness Of the Burning
Mountaln, which now seems to tower
rhreateHningly above the fields. The
helds rise a little. above the road, the
grass grows high, and there is a perfect
haze Of poppies. When you walk in
these fields You are walking on the
grave Of Rompei. - ~ I'LL
Assoneleonles to. the excavation parts,
ana goes down into the narrow streets
where the Roman nehariot-wheels have
worn deep ruts in the great paving
stones one realizes tire past, and the
changing fortunes Of empires, and the
immortality Of human deeds, as one
never did before.r Down there.s in those
Iong-burled Streets; 1T is easy TO realize
mat tod shall bring every work TO re
meInbrance, when the Books are opened,
any theJudgment is seT9F8 glEg
IN some sort, the books are opened
alreadSin Pompeii8 Eighteen d hundred
years ago life there was suddenly stop
ped As in the days before the Flood.
SO here. IN Poinpeii, they were eating
ana ~ drinking, and know not until The
siood came. 1t was "a gay city, the
scarborough or BiaIritz of Rone-44per,
maps one might rather cali itthe 0s-
le9d, for it was less genteel than Her
r'n'. Du,aneam' ~ ~. rs shown by, the more
lnsiefetlacious taste sof- The, decorations.
SaS S5iAteeh en-, years before, AN earthquake
llau uone SO much mischief that. thC
iuln was not yet quite restored; but the
nloullaIn hadsbeenqriet ever since. ano
people soon grow used even to vol
Saho' 50 transitory passion Is fear i
was not August Gay-a day when The
pareIedS fields, made all the air dusty
anu ~ ury, and the beautiful white CITY d
rapies tealled Neapolis, thenewtowfi)
iying All round the head of the bay
looked a dtlsky yellow through The
wa Sau5. heayy air. Most Of the people
ho Msle N the amphitheater, at a wild
o,a oeasl hight, when they saw a Strange
Snd uioud rise from pesuvins. Il seemed
w. 2 9, Pi,ie treei the trunk rose up higl
;nto the heavens, and then spread ou
~ llanches7 some white. SOME dull anC
spoued, until. Slowly defach;ng them
seiVes s from the parent trunk, they be
gan 70 darSen, the whole sky.
flny the Elder, over at Misenum
was reading in his study when his siste
zane in to tell him OF this strang,
Cloud &c. He ordered iight galley to s, s
~ ready, and asked his nephew if n,
would come with him; but Young pin,
said he would rather study. especiall,
- nus uncle had Just given him SOM
mrlllpg % dog AS the Admiral wa.
r9lplHg out with his tablets in his hand
.eaay 10 note down all he saw. th,
mariners belonging to Athe sqailers Ia
~ ee.,na ~ came up to implore of him to p,
.p 70 their help BY the time Pliny 90 3
sa'i,s sants with his galleys the, ashes .wer,
.h;n, h;.lg = thick on his decks, hotter an,
S,er snleker every instant. Then cam,
sloAen and blackened stones and pnm
dnl %ace. Vast fragments were rolling
snSJl syn 5ne mountain, and the sea hai
suddenly retreated. No wonder u,
p,tSt was for putting back. But th,
bAQaQnted old nhiloso,,har.- A d,,,;,s