After twenty years of inactivity Vesuvius belched forth lava, which endangered the countryside. Our photograph shows the appearance of the huge mouth of the crater of Vesuvius immediately after the eruption, showing the great enlargment of the crater, with grooves upon the cones formed by the mammoth avalanches of incandescent material and violent inner explosions. -Underwood and Underwood, photo.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3803, 1 February 1927, Page 45
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59After twenty years of inactivity Vesuvius belched forth lava, which endangered the countryside. Our photograph shows the appearance of the huge mouth of the crater of Vesuvius immediately after the eruption, showing the great enlargment of the crater, with grooves upon the cones formed by the mammoth avalanches of incandescent material and violent inner explosions. -Underwood and Underwood, photo. Otago Witness, Issue 3803, 1 February 1927, Page 45
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