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professor to enter the system at Snaefells in Iceland, and eject
from it in Stromboli, on the Lipari Islands.4² Would that it could;
it would be so convenient for intercontinental travel, though it
would challenge the airlines, and demand an urgent solution to
the problem of excess heat.
Despite the generational change of step clearly apparent 50
years after Dahl climbed Vesuvius and addressed the volcano
as a scientific subject, it is salutary to note that the Queen's
Theatre in Long Acre, London, was so out of touch in 1877 as
to mount a dramatized version of Bulwer Lytton's
Last Days of
Pompeii
. It was a resounding flop.4³
View of the square
at Torre del Greco,
Campania, during the
eruption of Vesuvius
on 8 December 1861,
1877, engraving.
