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Chap. I: Bay and Castle of Procida - Evening Hymn - Beautiful View, Observations - the Island of Vivara - Ischia, its Mountains, Eruptions, Appearance, and Population - Nisida - Vesuvius
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wine practised not only here and in some other
parts of Italy, but in Austria, and various trans-
alpine wine countries; it has many advantages,
and implies a great degree of honesty and mutual
confidence among the inhabitants.
Besides Ischia, there are nine towns and se-
veral villages; one of the former, Foria, is as
large as the capital itself, and I believe more po-
pulous. Panza is on the southern side of the isle,
and near it, on an insulated and conical rock,
stands a fortress. Casamicio is placed nearly on
the summit of Mount Epomeo ; these towns have
all one or two large churches, as many convents,
and generally some medicinal waters, orhotbaths,
or sands, within their confines. The island of
Ischia is extremely well peopled, and highly cul-
tivated; and as its beauty, its waters, and the
coolness and salubrity of its air, attract a consi-
derable number of visitants to it in summer time,
it may be considered as very prosperous and flou-
rishing. Its coasts present a great variety of ro-
mantic scenery, as they are in general bold and
craggy, indented with little bays, jutting out in
points, and lined with shapeless rocks which have
been torn in moments of convulsion from the shore,
or hurled from the precipices above. Such is
Inarime, at present the seat of rural beauty and
fertility, the resort of health and pleasure, very
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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. 1
wine practised not only here and in some other
parts of Italy, but in Austria, and various trans-
alpine wine countries; it has many advantages,
and implies a great degree of honesty and mutual
confidence among the inhabitants.
Besides Ischia, there are nine towns and se-
veral villages; one of the former, Foria, is as
large as the capital itself, and I believe more po-
pulous. Panza is on the southern side of the isle,
and near it, on an insulated and conical rock,
stands a fortress. Casamicio is placed nearly on
the summit of Mount Epomeo ; these towns have
all one or two large churches, as many convents,
and generally some medicinal waters, orhotbaths,
or sands, within their confines. The island of
Ischia is extremely well peopled, and highly cul-
tivated; and as its beauty, its waters, and the
coolness and salubrity of its air, attract a consi-
derable number of visitants to it in summer time,
it may be considered as very prosperous and flou-
rishing. Its coasts present a great variety of ro-
mantic scenery, as they are in general bold and
craggy, indented with little bays, jutting out in
points, and lined with shapeless rocks which have
been torn in moments of convulsion from the shore,
or hurled from the precipices above. Such is
Inarime, at present the seat of rural beauty and
fertility, the resort of health and pleasure, very
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