ocr: come. The awakening of the volcano was sudden and unbelievably violent. Its crater abruptly collapsed, and a great black column shot into the sky. Pliny the Younger (whose uncle, Pliny the Elder, was nearby and was among those killed) vividly described the eruption: it looked like an Italian umbrella pine a tall "trunk" spreading out at the top to a C dense cloud shot with flashes of lightning. From that cloud, driven bya strong northwest wind, there fell on Pompeii ah heavy hail of pumice stones, which smashed roofs, riddled the houses and buried the city under a blanket of pumice more than 1 ...
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