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Photo from Mrs Alexander Graham Bell 

 STONE QUARRIES OF* SYRACUSE 



A corner of the stone quarries where 9,000 Athenians, the remnants of Nicias' army, were 

 imprisoned by the Syracusans and left to die of thirst and starvation. La Latonia dei 

 Cappuccini, Syracuse. The quarries cover many acres in extent, having been hewn from the 

 living rock by multitudes of slaves. 



