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Identifier: italyhandbookfor03karl (find matches)
Title: Italy; handbook for travellers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Subjects: Italy -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's Sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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History. POMPEH. 9. Route. 121 visits and patient observation are indispensable. Tbe evening is tliemost enjoyable time for tbe visit, when tbe lights and shadows on thesurrounding mountains and the illumination of the ruins by the de-clining sun invest the place with magic fascination. Pompeii is mentioned in history for the first time in B.C. 310; butits monuments, such as the wall of the town and the so-called GreekTemple, clearly prove it to be of much greater antiquity. Founded by theOscans, it soon became imbued with the elements of Greek civilisation, likethe other towns of this extensive tribe. Being situated near the sea onan ancient volcanic eminence, it carried on extensive commerce with theinland Campanian towns by means of the navigable river Sarnus, andenjoyed an uninterrupted, though not brilliant share of prosperity. (Thesea and river were separated from the tc.wn by subsequent convulsions ofnature.) After the Samnite wars, in which Pompeii had also participated,the to

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