Word: crater
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...views comprised about sixty places of interest, and were thrown on the white wall by the calcium light. Starting in Italy, the first picture was the Bay of Naples; then followed in quick succession the fish market at Naples, the Carthusian monastery, Virgil's tomb, Vesuvius, showing the present Crater, several views of Pompell and many more. Next, passing over to Sicily, photographs of Mount Etna, the old quarries at Syracuse, a beautiful Greek temple at Argumentum, and the bay of Falermo were shown...
Professor Dana, of Yale, last summer visited Hawaii, where he spent a week studying the crater of Kilauea. He had examined the volcano forty-seven years ago, and found that it had not changed as much as he had in the intervening years.- N. Y. World...