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LAGO FUSARO

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAGO

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FUSARO  , a
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lake of
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Campania,
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Italy, 2 m . W. of Baia, and 1 m . S. of the
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acropolis of
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Cumae . It is the
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ancient Acherusia palus, separated from the
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sea on the W. by a
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line of sandhills . It may have been the
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harbour of Cumae in
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early antiquity . In the rst
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century A.D. an artificial outlet was dug for it at its S. end, with a
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tunnel, lined with
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opus reticulatum and
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brick, under the
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hill of Torregaveta . This hill is covered with the remains of a large
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villa, which is almost certainly that of Servilius Vatia, described by
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Seneca (Epist . 55) . There are remains of other villas on the shores of the lake .
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Oyster cultivation is carried on there . See J . Beloch, Campanien (2nd ed.,
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Breslau, 1890), 188 .

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