| A walk up a boulder-strewn slope reaches the old crater, or solfatara, almost surrounded by steep walls of rock. |
| The demi-god Faunus, who had an oracle at the Solfatara, had also an oracle on this hill. |
| The students climbed to the top of Vesuvius and were able to get close to Solfatara, a volcanic crater which still emits jets of steam and sulphurous fumes. |
| On our way back we visited solfatara, the celebrated crater plain, about 1000 feet in length by 800 in breadth, skirted by hills. |
| The whole of the solfatara crater has been enclosed for the purpose of manufacturing alum from its soil. |
| This solfatara must formerly have been much more active than it is now. |
