Today's installment concludes Volcano Buries Pompeii,the name of our combined selection from Pliny and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The concluding

But darker and larger and mightier spread the cloud above them. It was a sudden and more ghastly Night rushing upon the realm of Noon!Continuing

The ashes now began to fall upon us, though in no great quantity.Continuing Volcano Buries Pompeii,with a selection from Letters to Tacitus by

Though it was now morning, the light was still exceedingly faint and doubtful; the buildings all around us tottered.Continuing Volcano Buries