Explore "Europe Revised" by Irvin S. Cobb on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
When I reached Pompeii the situation was different. I could conjure / up an illusion there -- the biggest, most vivid illusion I have been / privileged to harbor since I was a small boy. It was worth spending four / days in Naples for the sake of spending half a day in Pompeii; and if / you know Naples you will readily understand what a high compliment that / is for Pompeii.
To reach Pompeii from Naples we followed a somewhat roundabout route; / and that trip was distinctly worth while too. It provided a most / pleasing foretaste of what was to come. Once we had cleared the packed / and festering suburbs, we went flanking across a terminal vertebra of / the mountain range that sprawls lengthwise of the land of Italy, like / a great spiny-backed crocodile sunning itself, with its tail in the / Tyrrhenian Sea and its snout in the Piedmonts; and when we had done this / we came out on a highway that skirted the bay.