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Eve Drewelowe travel correspondence, 1928-1929
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cling to the rocks above each other in a cliff like outline. It's really quite an effective city pattern. When viewed from the height of the hill it is quite lovely laid out in a double cresent below at the foot of the hill up to and around the very bay. We added another important page to our memory book the other day when we made the respective journeys to Vesuvious and Pompeii. The volcano Vesuvious is by far the most stupendous phenomena that we have seen anywhere. It is overwhelming! It is awe inspiring! It is gigantic! In taking the trip to Mont Vesuvious one takes the ordinary train to the foot of the upward grade (caused by previous lava flows) where a machine is added to help push the one car up the incline. Finally however one comes to the foot of the cove proper and here begins the funicular which is a combination rail and cable affair. This car is taken up the side of the 550 incline of the mountain. The mountain looks like a great pile of soil dumped upon the plains. Its shape is almost as regular as a heaped sand pile. The mountain proper is composed of volcanic and dark brown in color; the lava is massed at the foot in great areas of hardened and broken up masses of molten rock. When we reached the top the valley below stretched away into a distant vagueness far below. The cities round about were constructed in the daintiest miniatures. The incline of the mountain made us quite wary of our steps above. When the funicular stopped we got out and together with our guide ascended the steep wide path which had been cut
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cling to the rocks above each other in a cliff like outline. It's really quite an effective city pattern. When viewed from the height of the hill it is quite lovely laid out in a double cresent below at the foot of the hill up to and around the very bay. We added another important page to our memory book the other day when we made the respective journeys to Vesuvious and Pompeii. The volcano Vesuvious is by far the most stupendous phenomena that we have seen anywhere. It is overwhelming! It is awe inspiring! It is gigantic! In taking the trip to Mont Vesuvious one takes the ordinary train to the foot of the upward grade (caused by previous lava flows) where a machine is added to help push the one car up the incline. Finally however one comes to the foot of the cove proper and here begins the funicular which is a combination rail and cable affair. This car is taken up the side of the 550 incline of the mountain. The mountain looks like a great pile of soil dumped upon the plains. Its shape is almost as regular as a heaped sand pile. The mountain proper is composed of volcanic and dark brown in color; the lava is massed at the foot in great areas of hardened and broken up masses of molten rock. When we reached the top the valley below stretched away into a distant vagueness far below. The cities round about were constructed in the daintiest miniatures. The incline of the mountain made us quite wary of our steps above. When the funicular stopped we got out and together with our guide ascended the steep wide path which had been cut
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