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Ch. XXV.] 



HEECULANEUM AND POMPEII. 



651 



one fragment having been discovered, by an opponent of the 

 Epicurean system, Chrysippus. 



manuscr 



which was in the hands of the interpreters when I visited the 

 museum in 1828, the author indulges in the speculation that 



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Naples, p. 599), was overwhelmed during the eruption of 79. 



that, when his uncle was there, he was 



Pliny mentions that, 

 obliged to make his escape 



so great was the quantity of 

 falling stones and ashes. In the ruins of this place, a few 

 skeletons have been found buried in volcanic ejections, to- 



some 



papyrus, which, like those of Pompeii, were illegible. 



tved by lava. — Of the towns hitherto 



Torre del Greco overflowed by lava.— 

 mentioned, Herculaneum alone has been overflowed by a 

 stream of melted matter ; but this did not, as we have seen, 

 enter or injure the buildings, which were previously enveloped 

 or covered over with tuff. But burning torrents have often 

 taken their course through the streets of Torre del Greco, 

 and consumed or enclosed a large portion of the town in 

 solid rock. It seems probable that the destruction of three 

 thousand of its inhabitants in 1631, which some accounts 

 attribute to boiling water, was principally due to one of those 



alluvial floods which we before mentioned 



in 



1737, 



the lava itself flowed through the eastern side of the town, 

 and afterwards reached the sea; and, in 1794, another cur- 

 rent, rolling over the western side, filled the streets and 

 houses, and killed more than four hundred persons. The 

 main street is now quarried through this lava, which supplied 

 building stones for new houses erected where others had been 



