Very soon we shall be passing over the top of Herculaneum.

The ancient city lies buried thirty feet below the surface." "Aren't they ever going to excavate it like they did Pompeii ?" "The trouble is that the modern town of Pugliano is built over the top, and naturally the owners don't want their houses pulled down, whatever treasures in the way of Greek or Roman antiquities may lie buried underneath.

Isn't the view of the Bay of Naples beautiful from here ?" "Yes, and the flowers.

It's like fairyland." At Pugliano the party left the train, and after a long and tiresome wait at the station changed to the light electric railway that was to take them up Vesuvius.

The little carriage resembled a tramcar, and its wide glass windows afforded excellent views of the scenery _en route_.
Up--up--up they went, gradually getting higher and higher.