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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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you ascend the tower and you look down upon all thiswonderful roof, this amazing wealth of sculpture, and take it all in ata glance. The roof itself is divided into sections, and you can onlysee a portion of it at a time until you have risen above it. On all sides of you is one of the most wonderful views in theworld. Stretching far away are the rich Plains of Lombardy : espe-cially fertile in corn, wine, fruit, rice, olives, and the cultivation of thesilkworm. The plains are watered by many rivers, amongst themthe Sesia, the Tesin, the Adda, the Oglio, and the Po. This formerDuchy of Italy is rich in water, for it also possesses the lakes Mag-giore, Como, and Lugano. Milan itself is watered by the riversAdda and Tesin. In the early morning, when the distance is not veiled by mist, the In Sunny Climes. 317 view is scarcely to be surpassed, either in beauty or extent. The Alpsin the distance rear their giant heads, reaching as it seems into the • Illiti>-i I I.jjI.,! I / >4\l(i
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A Florentine Doorway. heavens, their outlines melting into the pale blue of the sky. To thesouth-west there are Monte Viso and Mont Cenis, and nearer Turin, 3i8 In Sunny Climes, the beautiful Superga. The Matterhorn is conspicuous; MonteLeone near the Simplon, and the Bernese Alps; in the far distancethe summits of the St. Gothard and the Splugen, the peak of theOrder. In the east may be faintly discerned, by the help of atelescope, the towers and domes of quiet Pavia, ancient capital ofthe Goths and Lombards, backed by the far-famed Apennines. This country of Lombardy, now consisting of eight provinces, wasonce of much greater extent. It inherits its name from the Germanictribe that invaded Italy in the sixth century. Twelve centuriesbefore this it was under the dominion of the Etruscans, thosemysterious people of whom so little is really known. The Etruscanlanguage can still be traced in the derivations of many of the wordsnow used by the Milanese. Milan itself was the centre of the

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