Italy


A tour through Italy: exhibiting a view of its scenery, its antiquities, and its monuments (1813) By John Chetwode Eustace :

Italy lies extended between the thirty eighth and the forty sixth degree of northern latitude a situation which exposes it to a considerable degree of heat in summer and of cold in winter but the influence of the seas and of the mountains that surround or intersect it counteracts the effects of its latitude and produces a temperature that excludes all extremes and renders every season delightful. However as the action of these causes is unequal the climate of the country at large though every where genial and temperate varies considerably and more so sometimes than the distance between the places so differing might induce a person to expect. Without entering into all or many of these variations the effects of the bearings of the different mountains Italy may be divided into four regions which like the sister naiads of Ovid though they have many features in common have also each a characteristic peculiarity.

The first of these regions is the vale of the Po which extends about two hundred and sixty miles in length and in breadth where widest one hundred and fifty. It is bounded by the Alps and the Apennines on the north west and south and on the east lies open to the Adriatic. The second is the tract enclosed by the Apennines forming the Roman and Tuscan territories. The third is confined to the Campania Felix and its immediate dependencies such as the borders and the islands of the bay of Naples and of the plains of Patstum. The last consists of Labruzzo Apulia Calabria and the southern extremities of Italy.

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 Chapter 16 
. The room was most dear to her, and she would not have changed its furniture for the handsomest in the house, though what had been originally plain had suffered all the ill–usage of children; and its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded footstool of Julia’s work, too ill done for the drawing–room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moonlight lake in Cumberland, a collection of family profiles, thought unworthy of being anywhere else, over the mantelpiece, and by their side, and pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H.M.S. Antwerp at the bottom, in letters as tall as the mainmast.
 

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