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Travel writings by Drewelowe, 1920s
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upon the plains and its shape is almost as regular. The composition is dark brown volcanic ash with a sprinkling of rocks; areas of hardened twisted and broken masses of once molten rock stritch away to a great depth below. (the plains stretch away into a misty vageness far below. What a depressing thought! The cities seem to be constructed in the daintiest of ivory minitures. The mountain slope falls away on all sides in steep descent to the plains where and the Chinese and Indians which one sees seem to bear out out out out From the river the old crater of Vesuvious look like a great angel cake pan with a huge [funnel?] in the center. Undoubtedly this great bowl had
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upon the plains and its shape is almost as regular. The composition is dark brown volcanic ash with a sprinkling of rocks; areas of hardened twisted and broken masses of once molten rock stritch away to a great depth below. (the plains stretch away into a misty vageness far below. What a depressing thought! The cities seem to be constructed in the daintiest of ivory minitures. The mountain slope falls away on all sides in steep descent to the plains where and the Chinese and Indians which one sees seem to bear out out out out From the river the old crater of Vesuvious look like a great angel cake pan with a huge [funnel?] in the center. Undoubtedly this great bowl had
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