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Arguments For The Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius

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In the letters to Tacitus, Pliny the Younger accounts for the eruption of volcano of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. His first letter, he describes how his mother, uncle, and he noticed that the sky were full of dark huge clouds. Pliny uncle, as a commander, took a boat to investigate that phenomena and moved towards the danger. The ashes from the volcano were filling the air and the boat. After Pliny’s uncle returned home, he passed away because he had inhaled a lot of ashes in his lungs. In the second letter, Pliny the Younger describes how the volcanic eruption nearly destroyed his city, and how he and other people have been surviving the effects of the eruption. Observing changes in weather, people in Pliny’s town started panicking.
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