Word: vesuvius
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...examples of flatness, we may quote the statements that "Columbus is dead"; that " the Cathedral [of Pisa] is built in the form of a Latin cross,"-nothing more being said of the building; and that " before me lay Naples, while on the right, old Vesuvius was sending forth its dense columns of white smoke." Of the Bay of Naples no further mention is made...