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Show g m Pompeii. Touipell was overwhelmed on the night of Aug. 1M, 70 A. D. The principal prin-cipal citizens were then assembled, It appears, In an amphitheater where public spectacles were In progress. After a lapso of llfteeu centuries a countryman, ns liu was turning up the ground on the farm whcio he was employed, em-ployed, found a bronze ligiire, which discovery led to further search, in the course of which numerous other objects ob-jects were brought to light, and thus, at length, was the whole city uncovered. |