1890 Article Gallery Capodimonte Tufa Rock Reservoirs Naples Water Works MAB1 XGC7 This is an original 1927

This is an original 1927 black and white print ad for the Samarkand Hotel in Santa Barbara

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1890 Article Gallery Capodimonte Tufa Rock Reservoirs Naples Water Works MAB1 XGC7 This is an original 1927This is an original 1890 half page article about the Rock Reservoirs for the water supply of Naples in Italy. The peculiarity of these reservoirs lies in the fact that they have been excavated in the solid rock. This rock, which is known to geologists as tufa, which has, since its ejection from the crater, become compact and massive, so that it is sufficiently solid to be practically impervious; at the same time, it is sufficiently soft to make the