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Title: A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Vanderbilt, William K. (William Kissam), 1878-1944
Subjects: Automobile travel
Publisher: New York, Priv. print.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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andcascades all around us. Walled towns, hanging,one might say, by their eyelashes to the side ofthe hills, are seen here and there. All of themare interesting, and many of them built hun-dreds of years ago. The people are a fme raceand surprisingly agreeable. Once in a while theproverbial bad boy would throw a stone at us,but throughout the day only three were dis-charged at us. They were all well shot, two ofthem hit me, and one fell into the car betweenPayne and myself. This last stone was rather alarge one, and had it been more accurately aimedwould undoubtedly have done harm. As it was Christmas, the young folks were, ofcourse, celebrating. Their toys were certainlypeculiar, many of them taking the form of bombs.One of these was so accurately discharged thatit exploded under the car, almost paralyzing themechanic, who nearly drove us over the cliff intothe sea hundreds of feet below. We passed Positano and Prajano without fur-ther incident. Neither of these places is fit for (28)
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<: w H o w NAPLES TO PALERMO the tourist to stop at. They are interesting his-torically and are very picturesque to the eye. Amalfi came next, situated close to the sea,and forming a l^eautiful picture as we entered itafter a steep drop. We did not stay to investi-gate the place, although tourists say that the hotelaccommodation is fairly good. From its ap-pearance we thought it better to pass on. After we left Amalfi behind, we once morecliml)ed to a considerable height, and found thatthe road surface was l)y no means in as good con-dition as we had found it previously. This wasowing to the diligence service which runs iDetweenthis town and Salerno. The scenery, though veryfme, is devoid of the wildness, which had soappealed to us after leaving Sorrento. Rounding Cape dOrso we took a sharp turn tothe left at Yitri, and made for the town of Cavajust as it was growing dark. On the outskirts ofthe town we found, what is for this part of theworld, a good hotel, and having dismissed ou

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