. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good. ase partly hidden by Pines which also reached downover the shore rocks, its upper parts curiously broken intobays and groups of windows. At the head of one rock-boundcove, in a cleft of the cliffs, were a spring and cistern, wheregroups of women were washing. Around the next headlandthe wagon road suddenly ended against the close-built build-ings of the town of Portofino. Hence was one of the quaint-est pictures ever seen, —
. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good. ase partly hidden by Pines which also reached downover the shore rocks, its upper parts curiously broken intobays and groups of windows. At the head of one rock-boundcove, in a cleft of the cliffs, were a spring and cistern, wheregroups of women were washing. Around the next headlandthe wagon road suddenly ended against the close-built build-ings of the town of Portofino. Hence was one of the quaint-est pictures ever seen, — a deep hill-piercing cove, the shoresopposite wooded and reflected in water; small vessels weremoored in the inmost comers, their yards almost touching thetrees, and the steep wooded heights of the long promontoryopposite were crowned by castles of varying form, partlyhidden in verdure. The little port was headed by a wide,short beach, with high buildings close about it, and strungin a block along the hither shore. Olive-clad heights closebehind rise further off into Pine-clad summits of some twothousand feet. The road having ended, I got down into the \ \ A. \\. ???i1 x^ .-- \ ! \ \ i i
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