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Title: South by east : notes of travel in southern Europe
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Rodwell, G. F. (George Farrer), b. 1843
Subjects: Europe, Southern -- Description and travel 1871-1918
Publisher: London : M. Ward & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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act the coldest weather is like anEnglish June, and the mornings and evenings even in January arevery mild. Owing to its proximity to the sea the landscape isoften overcast, and the perfectly cloudless sky which is so oftenseen in the interior of southern lands is seldom observed here.In consequence of the great masses of cloud which float in from thenorth, the effects of light and shade are very striking : greatshadows frequently pass over the landscape and travel up the sidesof the mountains, and the sun may be shining brightly on one partof the city while another is shaded by a densely-black cloud, andthe low hills in the vicinity may at the same time be capped byclouds. We have never seen such a continuous change of lio-hts.At this moment the hills to the south-east are in shadow, a briafhtspot of sunshine rests on Monreale and the lower part of MonteCuccio, a cloud rests on its summit; Monte Pellegrino is in completeshadow, the mountains just behind it in complete sunshine, while
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2e Church of La Marforana. 189 a thousand lights and shades pLay upon the sea. A fewminutes later and the whole scene is changed; in fact, frommorning till night the lights and shadows, and half-lights andhalf-shades, are not constant for one moment, yet in the valleynot a breath of wind is felt, and one wonders at the constantmovement of the clouds. Palermo still justifies its Greek name, Panormus (ttciv, all; op/xos,harbour); and formerly the name was still more appropriate,because the small harbour, called La Sala, extended muchfurther into the city than it now does, and separated theAcropolis from the outlying portions of the city. In fact, onearm of the harbour is believed to have extended as far as thepresent site of the Kings Palace, now nearly a mile from thewaters edge. Even before the Greeks settled here, the harbourwas employed by the Phoenicians, and a town arose on the site ofthe present city. The modern Palermo is a town of about 200,000 inhabitants,square as to its shap

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