Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
CHAPTER XXI.
GREAT ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS.
Pompeii long buried--Excavations begun--A hermetically sealed city--Scenes in the town--Pliny’s story--Hundreds stifled--Finding the bodies--Subsequent eruptions--Notable convulsion of 1538--The eruption of 1531, 1737 and 1793--Recent observations 421