Goodisson, William: A historical and topographical essay upon the islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Zante: with remarks upon the character manners and customs of the Ionian Greeks : descriptions of the scenery and remains of antiquity discovered therein, and reflections upon the Cyclopian ruins, illustrated by maps and sketches (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1822)

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nected by arches, which form a sort of piazza at
each side, nearly through the whole of the principal
streets. This method of building is well suited to
a hot and rainy climate, as it affords shelter from
both sun and rain. The only part of the town of
Corfu worthy of description or notice is the espla-
nade. This is, while any vegetation remains, a
delightful green, which extends between the town
and the ditch that separates the fortress from it.
A good gravel walk with a double row of trees at
each side, unites the fortress to the town, and it
has been lately carried round the whole of the green,
with a double row of trees planted at each side.
This affords a great source of recreation to the
inhabitants of the town and garrison; and the
addition of the trees is a very great improve-
ment as well as ornament, notwithstanding the ab-
absurd notions entertained by some, that the
place is rendered thereby more unhealthy; where
the ventilation being preserved free, it is impossible
that such effect should take place in so wide and
open a space. At the north-east extremity of the
esplanade an irregular angle has been cut off, and
judiciously selected for the scite of the new palace.
This angle, so appropriated, hardly takes any thing
from the length of the green, and serves to give it
uniformity, besides throwing in the beautiful front
of the palace itself. Thus the palace of St. Michael
and St. George occupies one side of the esplanade,
along which its front extends, built of Malta
stone and ornamented with a colonade of fluted