The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-08-09

the cities that have been destroyed in
the ages Of the past, there is. to the
world Of today only one 'buried
oity'-Pompeii. Nineteen centuries
ago it was q foarishing town of some
10000 Inhabitants, situated upon the
Mediterranean coast, at that time
eclipsing the neighboring town, Near-
oils (Ns.pleE>, both in commerce and
IN wealth. It was then three centu-
ries old, and it's life was mixture Of
the Greek and Roman. l. had won
by it's magnificent aituatiou far renown
as pleasure resort and many wealthy
Romans were won't TO come thither
from time to time when the stress Of
business or gaiety became too great in
the Eternal City-a sort Of Newport
for Rome Of the CaeLars, with busi-
ness attachment.
Behind the city and away from the
sea, rose mountain wooded to the
top and used as kind Of suburban
park by the Pompeians. This noun
tain was known as La Somms. The
Inhabitants of the city looked upon
La Somma with as little suspicion or
fear as the inhabitants OF St. Pierre
looked upon the wooded slopes aud
lake.crowned summit Of Pelee-not
within the memory Of man had the
mountain given the slightest sign Of
life. To be sure, some Of the wise
men Of that time had said thas it was
the tomb of long dead volcano. But
the Pompeians were quite too ,mush
taken up with the business and
pleasures of their own lives to con-
Germ themselves much with the tombs
of volcanoes, or with the possibility
Of resurrection. So, like the people
of St. Pierre, they went about their
ways, and on occasion ran up for day
to the summit Of the ancient hill to
get the sea breeuas and cool off.
But in 63 A. D. the city with it's
neighbors was almost destroyed by an
earthquake. which threw down the
houses aud overturned the temples.
People are much the came though in
all ages. Galveston is visited By :
wave which browns thousands Of it's
inhabitants and ruins millions Of
property-but scarcely are the dead
buried before the survivors determine
to repair the loss. So the fathers Of
Pompeiiissued o decree that, the city
should be restored in greater magnii-
cence than before. The work was
we'll nigh completed, when one August
day in 70 AID, with scarce . word
Of warning, the side Of La Somma
blew open with great violenos, and
the cone which is now known 40 Ve-
suvius was thrown up.
In this, the birth Of the famous
volcano, there was no discharge of
lava. And in this point, Che eruption
is very like that Of Pelee. Rivers Of
boiling mud were thrown out, and
these descending to the sea On one
side, overwhelmed the town Of Herou.
laneum and buried it in an ocean OF
mud, as the sugar mills were buried
at St. Pierre. The mud gradually
dried and became almost like stone.
Today Hercnlaneum lies under 30
feet Of this subst tance. over which are
more recent lava flowa 2SJ3
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