Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . gentlemen,—a little the worse forwear, but delightfully fashionable—proper to a foreign place of resort such as Nice. Onecan wear a straw hat and white linen coat even in November. What an odd anachronismthis costume appears to us northern folk, who know that our friends and relations aresitting at home over the fire with snow on the roof and mud on the pavement! The chiefplace of assembly for the fashionable world is—besides the Promenade des Anglais, begunin 1822 by the British colony in order to give employment to a number of poor distressedworkmen,—the J
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . gentlemen,—a little the worse forwear, but delightfully fashionable—proper to a foreign place of resort such as Nice. Onecan wear a straw hat and white linen coat even in November. What an odd anachronismthis costume appears to us northern folk, who know that our friends and relations aresitting at home over the fire with snow on the roof and mud on the pavement! The chiefplace of assembly for the fashionable world is—besides the Promenade des Anglais, begunin 1822 by the British colony in order to give employment to a number of poor distressedworkmen,—the Jardin Public, which lies near the sea and is filled with the finest exoticplants. It contains myrtles of truly colossal proportions and the noblest palm-trees inNice. The palm in the centre of the garden, however, was planted in honour of theannexation ! Quite close to the Jardin Public a little river runs into the sea, called thePaillon, which is distinguished above all its fellows, even in these parts, by the fact that it. UfWMfy Of ThE |;»!!Vro.:--, ? ; i^jjgjjjg ON THE RIVIERA DI PONENTE. J39 scarcely ever has any water in it. Its dry pebbly bed stares up at the sunshine ; but it iscrossed by several bridges, nevertheless. The whole nomenclature of Nice is impressedwith an air of almost comic grandeur : for instance there are Boulevards, Avenues, Quaysand Squares, and all baptised with the high-sounding but somewhat ephemeral title
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