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52 POMPEIANA.
tremendous visitation, as it affected Stabia
and Misenum, comparatively distant from
the source of the calamity; what must
have been the situation of the unfortunate
inhabitants of Pompeii, so near, of Her-
culaneum, within, its focus? Must we
not conclude that, at the latter place at
least, most of those not overwhelmed by
the torrents of stony mud1 which pre-
ceded others of Haming lava, burying their
city sixty feet under the new surface %
were overtaken by the showers of volcanic
matter in the fields, or drowned in at-
tempting to escape by sea, their last but
hopeless resource, since it appears to
have received them to scarcely less certain
destruction ?
The emperor Titus, whose great
-and good qualities here found every op-
portunity for their display, immediately
1 The lower stratum at Herculaneum appears to be a
-species of tufa, deposited in a fluent state.
•• Herculaneum us at present in some parts buried one
hundred and twelve feet below the surface.
tremendous visitation, as it affected Stabia
and Misenum, comparatively distant from
the source of the calamity; what must
have been the situation of the unfortunate
inhabitants of Pompeii, so near, of Her-
culaneum, within, its focus? Must we
not conclude that, at the latter place at
least, most of those not overwhelmed by
the torrents of stony mud1 which pre-
ceded others of Haming lava, burying their
city sixty feet under the new surface %
were overtaken by the showers of volcanic
matter in the fields, or drowned in at-
tempting to escape by sea, their last but
hopeless resource, since it appears to
have received them to scarcely less certain
destruction ?
The emperor Titus, whose great
-and good qualities here found every op-
portunity for their display, immediately
1 The lower stratum at Herculaneum appears to be a
-species of tufa, deposited in a fluent state.
•• Herculaneum us at present in some parts buried one
hundred and twelve feet below the surface.