Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . 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. STREET IN TENDA. Imperial. In a word, there are many other things besides the great palm-tree in theyardin Public that have been planted in hono
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . 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. STREET IN TENDA. Imperial. In a word, there are many other things besides the great palm-tree in theyardin Public that have been planted in honour of the annexation. Although Nice itself is wanting in that air of picturesque neglect, if I may so express it,which gives a peculiar charm to the aspect of many thoroughly Italian cities, and althoughFrench civilization has covered it with the sort of varnish which makes modernEurope so monotonous, nevertheless the excursions to be made in the neighbourhood,—especially towards the mountains,—offer all the attractions of unsophisticated beautiful is the road over the Col di Tenda towards Valdieri, a favouritehunting seat of King Victor Emmanuel; snowy peaks rise above the crumbling Avails of thelittle town, and although there remain but few vestiges of the fortresses erected in the T 2 140 ITAL Y. Middle Ages to resist the incursions of the Saracens, yet that wild people has left othertraces of its presence in these par
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