. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 185 this town, is the village of San Terenzo. Our house, Casa Magni, was close to this village ; the sea came up to the door, a steep hill sheltered it from ; The proprietor of the estate, who was insane, had rooted up the olives and planted forest trees on the hillside. " These were mostty young," continues Mrs. Shelley, " but the plantation was more in English taste than I ever elsewhere saw in Italy ; some fine walnut and ilex trees intermingled their dark mossy foliage, and formed groups which still haunt my memory, as then they sa
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 185 this town, is the village of San Terenzo. Our house, Casa Magni, was close to this village ; the sea came up to the door, a steep hill sheltered it from ; The proprietor of the estate, who was insane, had rooted up the olives and planted forest trees on the hillside. " These were mostty young," continues Mrs. Shelley, " but the plantation was more in English taste than I ever elsewhere saw in Italy ; some fine walnut and ilex trees intermingled their dark mossy foliage, and formed groups which still haunt my memory, as then they satiated the eve with a sense of loveliness. The scene w'as indeed of unimaginable beauty. The blue extent of waters, the almost landlocked bay, the near castle of Lerici shutting it in to the east, and distant Porto Venero to the west ; the \-aried forms of the precipitous rocks that bound in the beach, over which there was only a winding rugged footpath towards Lerici, and none on the other side ; the tideless sea leaving no sands nor shingle, formed a picture such as one sees in Salvator Rosa's landscapes onl^^ Some- times the sunshine vanished when the sirocco raged. . The gales and squalls that hailed our first arrival surrounded the baj' with foam ; the howling wind swept round our exposed house, and the sea roared un- remittingly, so that we almost fancied ourselves on board ; This must certainly have been the case, for the porch and terrace open on to the sea, which frequently penetrates the first floor. But as the days wore on into summer the heat became intense, and the sea and the cool breezes rising off it were more than welcome. Shelley and Williams spent most of their time on the bay in the Ariel. Some whUe before their departure from Pisa the two friends had commissioned Captain Roberts (already mentioned) to have a boat built for them at Genoa, where B\Ton was building his yacht, the Bolivar. The Ariel^ arrived on May 12th, and the jo\- with which the il
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