Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ne which seems to be compounded of Etnas firesand summer sunshine, and which inspires the peoples popular songs. Olives too arehere, old and hoary as one never sees them on the mainland, and oranges and citrons areat home here, glowing like gold, and full of exquisite juice. Wherever we turn our stepswe find lavish abundance, a luxuriance of plenty poured out with open hands. The carobovershadows the dazzling yellow slopes of the hills, the broad-leaved fig-tree peers abovegarden walls. And everywhere,—in places where more delicate vegetation shrinks fromthe broad blaze of sunshine, the parched lava of the ground is covered by the victoriousIndian fig, whose red-gold fruit offers refreshment in the sunniest desert. Its standard-bearer is the bold Agave that often marches on in long lines across the naked rock, orstands sentry round some ruin of the Grecian times. These plants, together with thepalms and olive trees, and the stiff reeds that clothe the lower lands with their sad grey
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Of THE universe of umm A VOYAGE ROUND THE ISLAND. 455 colouring, give the whole landscape a strange, outlandish character, and make the travellerfancy himself in another quarter of the world. Wherever the land slopes down and is cut through by singular water-courses, thenatives plant cotton, rice, and the sugar-cane. Herds of cattle and horses wander overthe hilly pastures of the interior ; the Sicilian horses were famous in antiquity. Thecoasts are inhabited by a bold and adventurous race of fishermen and sailors, who live invillages or isolated huts, and—wherever the conformation of the shore, which, for the most

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