Show t LIn In the Crater of Vesuvius J SSi S p fir AT t A v X t. t Sp rt aa t t's s V Y Prof descent Into the crater of Vesuvius has aroused the Interest of the scientific world and the photographs he took are of great value One of them Is here reproduced In describing the exploit of himself and his assistant Prof says Supporting o ourselves by the rope and placing our feet against the rocky sides Bides of the crater we began our descent The first obstacle was an oblique wall formed by the debris of earlier eruptions and this was succeeded by byan byan an enormous crevasse Into which numerous ous smoking fissures opened I measured the temperature of these fissures and found It to be 86 degrees C C. Co Continuing our way we came to a nearly perpendicular wall of over fifty yards In In height Our serious difficulties now commenced ed Wherever we wo put our feet we opened new fissures belching out sulphuric acid but we managed managed managed man man- aged nevertheless to get get down down the wall We now encountered red another wall of nearly as difficult a character Allaround All Allaround around us now was failing falling a literal hail of cinders and debris which we had difficulty In avoiding My hands and arms were severely burned and b bruised while my assistant Is still suffering from contusions of the head We persevered persevered persevered per per- severed In our descent and encountered still another nearly perpendicular wall After some searching we found a crevasse with some negotiable lava canals and commenced to move on But now we found we had not sufficient rope We had a hundred yards more-descent more without a rope to help us At last we found ourselves at the bottom I was able to measure the depth of the crater and found It to be yards The surface at the bottom was Irregular and showed deep depressions and mounds not to be seen from the top |