Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ish 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 rose bydegrees
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ish 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 rose bydegrees out of the waves, higher and higher until it almost touched the dwelling of thegods with its burning forehead. The very foundation of this island is a volcano, MonteEpomeo, which stands in the centre of it. Fiery masses flowed out in broad streamsfrom its vast crater, and spreading into the waters below, formed the flat circumference ofthe island. From its volcanic architect it received the form of its main outline,—a 3 h ITAL circular one. Other and subordinate powers added the jagged ornamentation. Thesewere the clefts or gullies of lava which opened in the flanks of the mountain after thehigher crater had cooled, and pushed themselves out into the sea so as to surround theisland with a series of capes and points. There are nine-and-twenty of these lava orna-ments ; and the principalof them enumerated bythe Ischian fishermenare Punta di San Pan-crazio, Punta Sant An-gelo, and Capo Negro,in the south ; Punta delFImperatore and S. Fran-cesco in the west; PuntaCaruso, Cornacchio delLacco, della Scrofa, andS. Pietro, in the north ;and to the east the rockon which Ischias ancientcastle stands. You land below thiscastle in the charmingharbour of Ischia madeby Nature herself, as ifin sport, by sinking anold crater and filling itwith sea-water. It isquite circular, and as stillas a mountain tarn ; nota wave is felt to movehere. Rosy floweringoleanders surround itwith southern p
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