Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . HARBOUR OF MONACO. here is, if possible, more magnificent than that we have hitherto seen on the Riviera. Thelemon trees are especially luxuriant and vigorous. Every street boy who idles about dirtyand ragged may have a fragrant white blossom in the button hole of his buttonless climate of Mentone is one of the finest in Europe. During forty-three years thethermometer only went down below zero four times, and then but for a few hours ; whilstthe summer heat is scarcely ever so intense as that which is commonly felt every season in. VIEW NEAR SAN R
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . HARBOUR OF MONACO. here is, if possible, more magnificent than that we have hitherto seen on the Riviera. Thelemon trees are especially luxuriant and vigorous. Every street boy who idles about dirtyand ragged may have a fragrant white blossom in the button hole of his buttonless climate of Mentone is one of the finest in Europe. During forty-three years thethermometer only went down below zero four times, and then but for a few hours ; whilstthe summer heat is scarcely ever so intense as that which is commonly felt every season in. VIEW NEAR SAN REMO. Paris and St. Petersburg. Mentone was formerly an appanage of the princeling whoseterritory we shall enter on at the next station ; now it is the chief town of a French 134 ITALY. Canton, since the Prince of Monaco was paid four millions of francs in i860, pour ciderline ville qui ne lui appartenaitpas Monaco is the next important place we come to, and there is a visible excitementamong the passengers as we approach it, for there in the gaudily gilt Casino is thegambling table which is the chief and most peculiar feature in this miniature state. Itwould be worth while to get out here and win a thousand napoleons dor whilst waitingfor the next train, says a traveller, who looks as if it would puzzle him to stake ahundred! The principality, whose entire length can be traversed in the railway train inthirty minutes, and which at many points only measures a hundred and fifty metres across,nevertheless lies in a position of wonderful, almost unique beauty. A huge rock t
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