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IIERCULANEUM AND POMPEII. 



643 



Lippi entitled his work, < Fii il fuoco o Pacqua che sotterd 

 pompei ed Ercolano ?' * and he contended that neither were 

 the two cities destroyed in the year 79, nor by a volcanic 

 eruption, but purely by the agency of water charged with 

 transported matter. His letters, wherein he endeavoured to 

 dispense, as far as possible, with igneous agency, even at the 

 foot of the volcano, were dedicated, with great propriety, to 

 Werner, and afford an amusing illustration of the polemic 



selves. His 



writers ot that day indulged them 



derived from the silence of contemporary historians, respect- 



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roofs. He 



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matter in the vaults and cellars at Hercul 



from ejections which had fallen through the air. 



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impression of a woman's breast, which was found in a vault 

 at Pompeii, or have given the cast of a statue discovered in 



Herculane 



Herculaneum 



mm 



by the carbonization of the timber, corn, papyrus-rolls, and 

 other vegetable substances there discovered : but Lippi re- 

 plied with truth, that the papyri would have been burnt up, 

 if they had come in contact with fire, and that their being 

 only carbonized was a clear demonstration of their having 

 been enveloped, like fossil wood, in a sediment denoaitftd 



from water. 



The 



micians 



in their report on his 



pamphlet, assert, that when the amphitheatre was first 



matter 



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interior form of the building, just as snow would lie if it had 

 fallen there. This observation is highly interesting, and 

 points to the difference between the stratification of ashes in 

 an open building and of mud derived from the same in the 

 interior of edifices and cellars. Nor ought we to call the 

 allegation in question, because it could not be substantiated 



matter 



* Napoli, 1816. 



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