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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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CORAL FISHING. THE THREE SISTER ISLANDS. 4*7 I would compare thee to some youthful nymphWhose maiden charms are scarcely yet matured.Still might thy budding beauties chain my heart,But that thy sisters full perfection wins me. The sister is Ischia, and Ischia is perfection! The radiant island smiles at us across the waters, and draws our boat as if withmagic bands nearer and nearer to its shores. These shores are girdled with black lava,over which the waves break in white foam. Dark brown crags rise from these blocks of
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POZZUOLI, WITH CAPO MISENO AND THE ISLANDS OF PROCIDA AND ISCHIA. lava, bare, or only clothed with coarse plants that love the sea; but at their feet, like agolden hem on the maidens robe, blooms the luxuriant yellow broom. From hence theland slopes gently upward to the middle of the towering Epomeo, and is covered to theremotest corner with pleasant vegetation ; the whole land is a pleasure garden. Whenthe sun shines on Ischia, you can distinguish from the sea the various forms and speciesof trees. The olive tree is contrasted with the vine, and this again with darker foliage,all harmonizing exquisitely with the light brown tufa soil, and forming a thousandgradations of light and shade; and nowhere are the habitations of men, vintagerscottages, and villas, so bright-looking as in this island, which enjoys an immunity fromdust! Ischia is now the fair realm of Flora and Pomona, and no one considers that it wasonce a masterpiece of Vulcans handiwork. At his behest and by his power, it r

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