Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . Of THE universe of umm A VOYAGE ROUND THE ISLAND. 455 colouring, give the whole landscape a strange, outlandish character, and make the travellerfancy himself in another quarter of the world. Wherever the land slopes down and is cut through by singular water-courses, thenatives plant cotton, rice, and the sugar-cane. Herds of cattle and horses wander overthe hilly pastures of the interior ; the Sicilian horses were famous in antiquity. Thecoasts are inhabited by a bold and adventurous race of fishermen and sailors, who live invillages or isolated huts, and—w
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . Of THE universe of umm A VOYAGE ROUND THE ISLAND. 455 colouring, give the whole landscape a strange, outlandish character, and make the travellerfancy himself in another quarter of the world. Wherever the land slopes down and is cut through by singular water-courses, thenatives plant cotton, rice, and the sugar-cane. Herds of cattle and horses wander overthe hilly pastures of the interior ; the Sicilian horses were famous in antiquity. Thecoasts are inhabited by a bold and adventurous race of fishermen and sailors, who live invillages or isolated huts, and—wherever the conformation of the shore, which, for the most. NEAR ALCAMO. part, descends steeply in the water, permits,—they lead a remote and obscure life, far fromthe world, but rich in reminiscences of antiquity. Their chief booty is the clumsy tunny,or the sword-fish, and the fishery takes place in the spring, when the markets of Palermoand Messina are filled with the fresh fish, and young and old subsist on it for manyweeks. The dark sunburnt coral fishers boldly defy wind and weather, and pass long monthson the sea between Sicily and Africa in miserable leaky little vessels, to drag up the brightred coral from the deep ; whilst their brothers at home labour within the entrails of avolcano to gain the gold of Sicily, the much-prized sulphur, and have a hard life of it withheat and dust and fever. The seaports offer a picture of busy life and activity, and onecan distinctly trace in them the various periods of Sicilian history, Greek, Roman,Saracenic, and Norman ; classic Antiquity, and Medievalism, are mixed up with showymodern life, and
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