. 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. .ET. 26] PORTOFINO 105 piazza at the beach by poking down a steep staircase underbuildings. From the beach, looking outward, the view wasmore striking. At the right, the wooded castle-crownedheights; at the left, a little quay and the blocked buildingsunder the mountain, the opening between crossed in the fardistance by the coast line of the mainland. Next I climbed rovmd the cape to the church visible atpoint No. 1 in the ma
. 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. .ET. 26] PORTOFINO 105 piazza at the beach by poking down a steep staircase underbuildings. From the beach, looking outward, the view wasmore striking. At the right, the wooded castle-crownedheights; at the left, a little quay and the blocked buildingsunder the mountain, the opening between crossed in the fardistance by the coast line of the mainland. Next I climbed rovmd the cape to the church visible atpoint No. 1 in the map, using a little path and staircase whichwinds among cliffs and under mossy boulders, and to my greatsurprise found myself on the brink of great cliffs of open sea,with white surf dashing far below at their base. I pushed onby a footpath along the harbor side of the promontory, pastthe first strange castle, — or, rather, stronghold house, —between lovely thickets, imder Olives, past one or two littlehidden cottages, and up an exceedingly steep but little trodden. zigzag to the ruined tower and walls on the highest peak ofthis much-peaked headland. Here were vastly fine seawardcliffs, where, under a big Pine, I lunched off stuff from mypockets, while far below, and often hidden by Pines, two boatsslowly dragged nets close to the rocks, and in the far distancetwo feluccas and one steamship sailed east towards Genoa. Iloafed long on this height, and found many lovely wild flowers,and rescued an earthworm from a centipede. Then I returnedto the little piazza (No. 2 on the map), and took a mountain-ward path, which led me up a succession of valleys different 106 LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE. THE RIVIERA [1886 from anything yet seen, — a sort of fairyland of fresh greengrass and Ferns, moss. Ivy, and countless flowers, with new-budding trees and singing birds, and cottages hidden away incorners, and steep side-hills of Olives. Much stairs and muchwinding among verdurous walls and
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