Fuoruscito, and poor solitary student, gave me, that rosiest of all morning hours as we stood high up on the green Mount Car

he blue outline shows itself, y

nte, Petrarca, Boccacio, Macchiavelli, Galilei, and the godlike Michael Angelo; three thousand Croats-I can see them-are parading there among the s

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and his breast is wound with a threefold cord of honour; with ivy, bramble, and the white wild vine-the clematis. There are no fairer garlands than those wreat

all fall off when you have broken a single twig; yonder, outlandish and bizarre, stands the prickly cactus, like a Moorish heathen, near it the wild olive shrub, the cork-oak, the lentiscus, the wild fig, and at their roots bloom the well-known children of our northern homes-the scabiosa, the geranium, and the mallow. How exquisite, pungent, invig

Marmocchi now, on the bot

characterized by a profusion of fragrant Labiat? and graceful Caryophylle?. These plants co

th those of Tuscany and Rome, through the west and south coasts with the botany of Provence, Spain, Barbary, Sicily, and the East; and finally, through the mountainous and lofty region of the interior, with that of the Alps and Pyrenees. What a w

na. Plantations of olives, from their extent entitled to be called forests, clothe the eminences, and line the valleys that run towards the sea, or lie open to its influences. Even on the rude sides of the higher mountains, the grape-vine twines itself round the orchard-fences, and spreads to the view

s and evergreen oaks; the arbutus and the myrtle grow to the size of trees. Pomaceous trees, but particularly the wild olive, cover wide tracts on the heights. The evergreen thorn, and the

s, the cisti, the lentisks, the terebinths, everywhere where the hand of man has not touched the soil. Further down, towards the plains, t

duced from Africa, on the most sheltered spots of the coast. The cactus opuntia

talis, that deck the mountains of the island? And of the mallows, the orchises, the liliace?, the solanace?, the centaurea, and the this

cts them, and the climate and soil of the coasts of this beautiful island are so favourable to t

neral, all the fruit trees of Europe, are here common. In the hottest districts of the island, the frui

trouble, the sugar-cane, the cotton plant, tobacco, the pine-apple, madder, and even indigo,

ding to the elevation of the soil. The first climatic zone rises from the level of the sea to the height of five hundred and eighty metres (1903 English feet)

ort intervals; the heavy sirocco alone, from the south-east, brings lingering vapours, till the vehement south-west-the libeccio, again dispels them. The moderate cold of January is rapidly followed by a dog-day heat of eight months, and the temperature mounts from 8° to 18° of Reaumur (50° to 72° Fah.), and even to 26° (90° Fah.) in the shade. It is, then, a misfortune for the vegetation, if no rain falls in March or April-and this m

t of one thousand one hundred and sixty metres (3706 feet), it does no harm to the olive; but, on the contrary, increases its fruitfulness. The chestnut seems to be the tree proper to this zone, as it ceases at the elevation of one

d the two forts of Vivario and Vizzavona. Above these inhabited spots no vegetation meets the eye but the firs that hang on the gray rocks. There

al gradations, the lowermost of which is warm and moist, the uppermo