BURIED CITIES

BURIED CITIES

BY

JENNIE HALL

The publishers are grateful to the estate of Miss Jennie Hall and to hermany friends for assistance in planning the publication of this book.Especial thanks are due to Miss Nell C. Curtis of the Lincoln School, NewYork City, for helping to finish Miss Hall’s work of choosing thepictures, and to Miss Irene I. Cleaves of the Francis Parker School,Chicago, who wrote the captions. It was Miss Katharine Taylor, now of theShady Hill School, Cambridge, who brought these stories to our attention.

FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS

Do you like to dig for hidden treasure? Have you ever found Indianarrowheads or Indian pottery? I knew a boy who was digging a cave in asandy place, and he found an Indian grave. With his own hands he uncoveredthe bones and skull of some brave warrior. That brown skull was moreprecious to him than a mint of money. Another boy I knew was making a caveof his own. Suddenly he dug into an older one made years before. Hecrawled into it with a leaping heart and began to explore. He found an oldcarpet and a bit of burned candle. They proved that some one had livedthere. What kind of a man had he been and what kind of life had he lived—blackor white or red, robber or beggar or adventurer? Some of us were walkingin the woods one day when we saw a bone sticking out of the ground.Luckily we had a spade, and we set to work digging. Not one moment was thetool idle. First one bone and then another came to light and among them aperfect horse’s skull. We felt as though we had rescued Captain Kidd’streasure, and we went home draped in bones.

Suppose that instead of finding the bones of a horse we had uncovered agold-wrapped king. Suppose that instead of a deserted cave that boy haddug into a whole buried city with theaters and mills and shops andbeautiful houses. Suppose that instead of picking up an Indian arrowheadyou could find old golden vases and crowns and bronze swords lying in theearth. If you could be a digger and a finder and could choose your find,would you choose a marble statue or a buried bakeshop with bread twothousand years old still in the oven or a king’s grave filled with goldengifts? It is of such digging and such finding that this book tells.

CONTENTS

POMPEII

1. The Greek Slave and the Little Roman Boy

2. Vesuvius

3. Pompeii Today

Pictures of Pompeii:

A Roman Boy

The City ofNaples

Vesuvius in Eruption

Pompeii from an Airplane

NolaStreet; the Stabian Gate

In the Street ofTombs

The Amphitheater

The Baths

Temple of Apollo

School of the Gladiators

TheSmaller Theater

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