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Title: Reminiscences; the story of an emigrant
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Mattson, Hans, 1832-1893
Subjects: Swedish Americans
Publisher: Saint Paul, D.D. Merrill company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t Mont Cenis, and arrived the following day atRome, via Turin and Florence. And is this great and glori-ous Rome? Yes! These walls, ruins, palaces, and Sabinehills,— aye, the very air I breathe,— all this belongs to theeternal city. From the window^ of my room in HotelMalori I can read the signs,— Via di Capo le Care, ViaGregoriana, etc., and among these an index pointing to theRome and Tivoli street-car line. Indeed, I have seen thegreat city of Rome, w4th its churches, statues, paintings,and ancient ruins and catacombs; the little monument tothe Swedish Queen Christina in the St. Peters church; thetriumphal arch which commemorates the destruction ofJerusalem, and the temple of Vesta where the ancient vestalvirgins guarded the sacred fire. Two thousand years thuspassed in review before my eyes in a few^ days. From Rome I proceeded to Naples. This city is built onthe most beautiful bay in the world, and has a populationof six hundred thousand inhabitants. It is built in the form
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Story of an Emigrant. 149 of an amphitlieatre, with a steep decline toward the watei.In the south w^e see the island of Capri, fifteen miles distant,and on the east coast the volcano Vesuvius, which, by itsthreatening clouds of smoke, seems to obscure the easternpart of beautiful Naples, although it lies fourteen miles dis-tant from the city. Long before the time of Christ the ba)looked about the same as it does now. The chief citiesaround it at that time were Naples, Herculaneum andPompeii. Mount Vesuvius, how^ever, did not look as it doesnow^ but rose as a green hill, called *La Somma, andserved as a summer resort for manj wealthy Roman patri-cians. The city of Pompeii had about fort)- thousand in-habitants. On August 23, A. D. 79, terrific rumblingswere heard from the interior of La Somma, the summit ofwhich suddenly burst open, and a pillar of ashes, steam, andred-hot rocks shot up through the openingto a great height,and fell, scattering itself over the surrounc ing country, whil

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