Five Hundred Curious And Interesting Narratives And Anecdotes

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Download or read book Five Hundred Curious and Interesting Narratives and Anecdotes written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Five Hundred Curious and Interesting Narratives and Anecdotes: Comprising the Wonderful Book, the Anecdote Book, Sailors Yarns, Salmagundi, and the Domestic Manners of the Americans Vesuvius. - This mountain, the most celebrated of ancient and modern volcanoes, is situated in the south of Italy, about eight miles from Naples. It rises in a gentle swell, till it reaches an elevation of nearly 3700 feet above the level of the sea; commanding from its summit a most extensive and beautiful prospect, including Naples, with its bay, its promontories, and its islands, with the delightful scenery of Campagna Felice. To the west, the view loses itself in the immensity of the sea. To the east, it extends far into the interior, until bounded by the Apennines. The summit of the mountain is in the form of a cone, and consists of masses of burned earth, ashes, and sand, thrown out in the course of ages by the volcano. The crater is extensive, being nearly a mile and a half in circumference, but has not above 350 feet of depth or descent from the ridge. The total number of great eruptions on record is above thirty, reckoning from the celebrated one of A. D. 79, (for an account of which see Earthquakes). One of the latest, though not most formidable, took place in the end of the summer of 1819. The permanent effect of which has been to lower the height of the summit. Etna. - This mountain, as well known, and as highly celebrated by ancient and modern writers as the above, is situated in Sicily. Its height is above 11,000 feet. The ascent, like that of Vesuvius, is very gradual; the sides of the mountain exhibit extensive tracts under different temperatures, and which accordingly have been divided into three regions, called the fertile, the woody, and the barren. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.