Residents of the district round Vesuvius have put to practical use the lava which has flowed from the volcano in past and recent eruptions. Naples and its vicinity appear to he a world of lava. The streets are paved with it. There are lam staircases, drinking troughs, bric-a-brac, and even jewellery. The guides make profit out of it by pressing coins and other objects on partly cooled fragments and selling these to visitors. On the ashy sides of the mountain there is enough lava to build a large city. .In appearance it resembles a shoreless, frozen sea of dull black that shimmers strangely purple in gome lights.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2185, 14 September 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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