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Identifier: touringreece00farr (find matches)
Title: A tour in Greece, 1880
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Farrer, Richard Ridley
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Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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object of attraction: to take so much trouble for the sakeof the view was an act of lunacy beyond his comprehension.But guide or no guide, it is well worth the climb to get alook at the monastery nestling in between the two chiefpeaks, entirely hidden from the surrounding country, butenjoying through one narrow opening a sight of tlie dis-tant city. Moreover, the charms of these mountains are accessible tothe least energetic, owing to the splendid English roads thatrun over either range. That of San Salvador is crossed at thePass of Pantaleone, which affords a panorama of the nortliand centre of Corfu; that of Santa Decca at the Pass ofGaruna, opening up the south and centre. Looking across thegreat central plain to Pelleka, the sight grows almost wearywith the endless masses of cultivation, broken only by dis-tant glimpses of the Adriatic. At last the cause suggestsitself: there is not a fence or enclosure of any kind; andthe Englishman, accustomed to associate fertility witli fields
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BRINDISI AND CORFU. 15 and hedgerows, experiences a sense of strangeness that atlength gives place to one of perfect satisfaction. Delightful is the drive back at sunset through the denseolive woods and vineyards, whence swarms of picturesque peas-antry are returning to the hills: the men very handsome,the women strangely the reverse; the stronger sex invariablyriding, the weaker walking by the side. But how few of the beauties of this paradise are revealedto the hurried tourist! Its charms develop fully only aftercareful exploration; they are not obvious to the casual sight-seer. Whether from the sportsmans point of view, or fromthe artists, two things are desirable—unlimited time and asteam yacht. The shooting on the island is not generallygood: there are snipe and wild-fowl in winter, and occasionalflights of woodcock; but these have to be shared with thenatives, who turn out in numbers to waylay them when theyland. Indeed a bad olive crop, by releasing these gentryfrom their ord

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  • bookleafnumber:36
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