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Old 14-04-2010, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by duncan View Post
Just look at the populations around active volcanoes. Would you live at the foot of Vesuvius?
People have lived around volcanoes for thousands of years because the soil is highly productive.

In the dawn times of agriculture those who lived there prospered. Today's cities like Naples grew out of that.
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