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Show SnowfaU in Rome. ROME. Feb. 23. Snow -fell here the morning after Christmas for the first time in eight years in quantity to whiten the city's roofs, and for the first time, certainly cer-tainly in the history of the modern city, it fell for three days consecutively, on December 2's 2" and 2S. Six inches of snow was not unusual In Rome under the empire, according to certain historians. During the Christmas week storm three feet of snow fell on the ble cone at Vesuvius, Vesu-vius, despite eruptions of hot lava. |