Vesuvius.—Ponies and Sticks.—Sand and Lava.—The rocky Steps.—The rolling, wrathful, Smoke-clouds.—The Volcano warns them off.—The lost Boy.—A fearful Search.—A desperate Effort.—The sulphurous Vapors.—Over die sliding Sands.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Pompeii, the City of the Dead.—The Monuments of the Past.—Temples,
Towers, and Palaces.—Tombs and Monuments.—Theatres and
Amphitheatres.—Streets and Squares.
CHAPTER XIX.
Lofty classical Enthusiasm of David, and painful Lack of Feeling on the Part of Frank.—David, red-hot with the Flow of the Past, is suddenly confronted with the Present.—The Present dashes cold Water upon his glowing Enthusiasm.—The Gates.—Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus.—The Culprits.
CHAPTER XX.
The Glories of Naples.—The Museum.—The Curiosities.—How they
unroll the charred Manuscripts exhumed from Herculaneum and
Pompeii.—On to Rome.—Capua.—The Tomb of Cicero.—Terracina.
—The Pontine Marshes.—The Appii Forum.
CHAPTER XXI.
The Pontine Marshes.—A Change comes over the Party.—The foul Exhalations.—The Sleep of Death.—Dreadful Accident.—Despair of Frank.—A Breakdown.—Ingenuity of the Driver.—Resumption of the Journey.