Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ON THE LA GO DI GARDA. 27 wards the south : that is the castle of the old powerful Counts of Arco, and the lastgreat milestone on our way. When we have left it behind us, we have reached our goaland stand on the shores of the shining Lake of Garda. # * * * * * The flood spreads itself out before our eyes in apparently limitless extent, itsdeep blue colour seeming to give a foretaste of the charm of the still distant Adriatic. Wesit upon a little terrace built up high above the lake, and watch the boys playing on theshore, and the slight barks whose sails mel
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ON THE LA GO DI GARDA. 27 wards the south : that is the castle of the old powerful Counts of Arco, and the lastgreat milestone on our way. When we have left it behind us, we have reached our goaland stand on the shores of the shining Lake of Garda. # * * * * * The flood spreads itself out before our eyes in apparently limitless extent, itsdeep blue colour seeming to give a foretaste of the charm of the still distant Adriatic. Wesit upon a little terrace built up high above the lake, and watch the boys playing on theshore, and the slight barks whose sails melt away into vapoury distance. We are in. CASTLE OF ARCO IN THE VAL DI SARCA. Riva ; in the very sound of the name one feels some subtle enchantment of the Lago di Garda, which we purpose exploring from this point, is the largest of all theItalian lakes; with its circumference of a hundred and twenty-four kilometres, it sur-passes the extent of Lago Maggiore by one third. Three great provinces meet on itsshores, the Trentino, Venetia, and Lombardy: and though the streams which feed itcome mostly from the high mountains, from Val di Sarca, Ledro, and Tavolo, the riverwhich flows out of it is the broad bright Mincio, whose name has a warlike sound in theears of the men of this generation. It is one of the important lines along which we tracethe course of history, the great Quadrilateral was intrenched behind it, and its watersnourish the marshy lands that surround Mantua. How much blood had to be shed beforethese regions heard the victorious cry Viva 1 Italia! The shape of the country around the Lago di Garda, when we
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