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Which part of the passage is essential to
understanding the effects of the eruption?
The chariots, which we had ordered to be drawn out,
were so agitated backwards and forwards, though upon
the most level ground, that we could not keep them
steady, even by supporting them with large stones. The
sea seemed to roll back upon itself, and to be driven from
its banks by the convulsive motion of the earth; it is
certain at least the shore was considerably enlarged, and
several sea animals were left upon it.
-Letter to Cornelius Tacitus,
Pliny the Younger
Which part of the passage is irrelevant to
understanding the effects of the eruption?