Fragments of History; Narratives of Some of the Most Remarkable Events in Ancient and Modern Times, Selected with a View to Illustrate God's Providence, and Intended Chiefly for the Young - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1850. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... HE names of the two cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii are so generally mentioned together, that it has been deemed desirable to give a description of the destruction and discovery of both of them in one chapter ; and, indeed, there is an identity in their histories which proves that little apology is needed for such an association. Situated not many miles from each other on the Bay of Naples, both cities are said to have been founded about the same period by Hercules, whose name Herculaneum clearly bears; while Pompeii was so called from the long procession (pompa) of captives which that same hero there exhibited on his return from his Spanish conquests. It was the same awful visitation which effected the ruin of both ; and both, after having been lost to the world for many centuries, were discovered about the same time. It is difficult to give any correct account of the relative magnitude of Herculaneum and Pompeii; the latter, however, is generally supposed to have been the more considerable of the two places; at any rate it was the more populous. The city, which at that time was washed by the waves of the sea, is now at some distance from it. A branch of the celebrated Appian Way leads from Rome to Pompeii, passing through o Naples and Herculaneum ; the former being about ten miles distant from Pompeii. Seneca has recorded that, about sixteen years before the great eruption of Vesuvius, by which these cities were destroyed, an earthquake, which took place on the 10th of February, A.d. 63, did great damage to both. " A flock of 1600 sheep was swallowed up, statues were split, and many persons lost their reason." The following year another earthquake was experienced, which threw down the theatre at Naples, just after the Emperor Nero, who had been sing...

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