RUINS OF poMpElI.
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From n volume lately issued from the press enti'
I'd, a journal nf Il 4 ur in iatly i'll ticyear 1921


The citv of pompeii was burned by showers
oct,,,s, and cin.eri which fell during an eruption
If ycsuvicus in the year 10 Of the Christian era.
lIr.ul neum, at the fon, Of the mountain AMI
mean po,npeii, shared the same awful tate, but
s,yas afterwards Hooded with river ofhol wat, i
which converted the whole mass into s1lid rock


cemcnt---pn pnmpei, on the contrary, was cover
ID with white ashes so loose AS to he easily re-
moved with spade, and about one third of he
low hill which contains It has been dug away, and
A. number of streets and some hundreds Of build


inrs are opened again to the sun" short time
since, several Thousand men We're employed in eX
cayating; in 1921 only" or three laborers
were found at work with spades and mattocks," !"
and in February last eleven men and few b. VS.
were cmployed in removing the ashes from the
buried nortiun of the city. The houses are with
ou' roofs; owing, as It is supposed, partly to an
carhq ialr which nearly destroyed the city 10
years previous to the eruption, and partly to the
weight of the superintendent sand aud ashes


They small general, ct two 81 ories and pant


d with the forms of animals, the colors OF which
have lost none of their original brightness


Most of the larger houses, are of one slory' 70
guard as our traveller supposes, against lhe ef'
tec,s of earthquakes. According TO 'heir size
they contain one or more square courts, open
above, and surrounded with rialzas, which par


tally protect from the weather the entrances to
the sieeping rooms, usually arranged around
them BY four zhe streets are nsrrcw and the