Identifier: illustrateddescr00lond (find matches)
Title: An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroads -- Great Britain Europe -- Guidebooks England -- Guidebooks
Publisher: (London) : Morton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the air and the senseof buoyancy and life which it imparts. Mentone has risen rapidly intoappreciation as a winter residence; it is more retiring than Nice, and lessbracing. It is considered one of the best spots on the Riviera for a winterresidence. The whole neighbourhood teems with opportunities for excur-sions both to mountain and valley scenery. The drive along the coast toBordighera is a continuation of the same general quaUties of scenery thatcharacterizes the road between Monaco to Mentone. In the same way it maybe said that Bordighera and San Remo very closely resemble Mentone.There are individual points of difference, but the same general characteristicsof climate, foliage, and beauty are common to them all. One point ofspecial interest in respect of San Remo may be mentioned,—it is veryclean. The town is also very old, and has a curious effect, the houses forthe most part rest upon arches, and the streets run in many places undervaulted passages. 364 % \ V3^ — s*e^:.
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GENOA. Genoa has been called the City of Palaces, and its earlier glory belongsto a time when Venice was Queen of the Adriatic, and Constantinople wasat the height of its power. During the middle ages the wealth of the East,equally with the religious fervour of the West, found its transit through, orits resting place near, the waters of the Mediterranean. At that epochGenoa rose by its natural position and its commercial enterprise to be thehome of merchant princes. The palaces which line its old and narrowstreets attest at once the wealth and taste of those who were located there.In the fierce heat of an Italian summer the very narrowness of the streetspossessed an advantage, by forming a natural and permanent protection

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