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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Itinerary through Corsica, by Charles Bertram
+Black
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+Title: Itinerary through Corsica
+       by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads
+
+
+Author: Charles Bertram Black
+
+
+
+Release Date: November 20, 2006  [eBook #19882]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ITINERARY THROUGH CORSICA***
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+Transcriber's note:
+
+      The printed book carried two kinds of headnote: keyword and
+      mileage.
+
+      "Keyword" headers, noting the places and subjects mentioned
+      on the page, have been placed before the most appropriate
+      paragraph.
+
+      Each itinerary gives the "miles from" {starting point} and
+      "miles to" {ending point}, with the numbers themselves printed
+      in the left and right corners of each paragraph. For this
+      e-text the numbers are shown in braces before the beginning
+      of each paragraph; the place names are given at the beginning
+      of the itinerary, and repeated as needed. Paragraphs
+      describing side exursions do not have mileage information.
+
+      Additional transcriber's notes are at the end of the book.
+
+
+
+
+
+CORSICA.
+
+[Map:
+Sketch Map of the Riviera and Corsica]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+New Editions of Guide-Books for
+France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal
+and the Channel Islands.
+
+Copiously Illustrated with Maps and Plans.
+
+
+NORTH-FRANCE--From the North Sea to the Loire, exclusive of Paris, and
+  from the Bay of Biscay to the Rhine. 19 Maps and 21 Plans          7/6
+
+SOUTH-FRANCE--From the Loire to the Mediterranean, and from the Bay of
+  Biscay to the rivers Arno and Po. The island of Corsica. 40 Maps and
+  27 Plans                                                           7/6
+
+_Published also in separate Parts._
+
+North-France, WEST-HALF, or NORMANDY, BRITTANY and TOURAINE. 14 Maps
+  and 16 Plans. Eighth Edition                                       5/
+
+NORMANDY: Its CASTLES and CHURCHES. Second Edition. 5 Maps and 9 Plans
+                                                                     2/6
+
+North-France, EAST-HALF, or PICARDY, CHAMPAGNE, LORRAINE, ALSACE and
+  part of BURGUNDY. 5 Plans and 5 Maps. Third Edition                2/6
+
+South-France, WEST-HALF. The SUMMER RESORTS in the PYRENEES; LUCHON,
+  BIGORRE, BARÈGES, etc.; the WINTER RESORTS of PAU, ARCACHON, BIARRITZ,
+  ST. JEAN-DE-LUZ, VERNET, AMÉLIE-LES-BAINS and MALAGA, and the
+  CLARET-WINE VINEYARDS in MEDOC. 17 Maps and 4 Plans. Fourth Edition
+                                                                     2/6
+
+South-France, EAST-HALF, or the VALLEYS of the WALDENSES, of the
+  RHÔNE, the DURANCE and the UPPER LOIRE; the Baths of VICHY,
+  AIX-LES-BAINS, ROYAT, VALS, MONT-DORE, BOURBOULE, BOURBON-LANCY,
+  ACQUI, LUCCA, VALDIERI, etc.; the VOLCANIC REGION OF ARDÈCHE; the
+  MOUNTAIN-PASSES between FRANCE and ITALY; and the RIVIERA of the
+  MEDITERRANEAN from MARSEILLES to LEGHORN. 20 Plans and 21 Maps.
+  Fourth Edition                                                     5/
+
+THE RIVIERA, or the MEDITERRANEAN from MARSEILLES to LEGHORN,
+  including the inland towns of PISA, LUCCA, CARRARA and FLORENCE,
+  and Excursions into the MARITIME ALPS. Fourth Edition. 10 Plans and
+  13 Maps                                                            2/6
+
+CORSICA, its Rail, Carriage and Forest Roads, with 6 Maps from the
+  latest authorities. Second Edition                                 1/
+
+BELGIUM, its CHURCHES, CHIMES and BATTLEFIELDS. 9 Plans and 4 Maps
+                                                                     2/6
+
+NORTH-FRANCE (East-Half) and BELGIUM in One Volume, including a
+  part of HOLLAND. Convenient for those going to Aix-la-Chapelle, Spa,
+  Vittel, Contrexéville, or any of the Bathing Stations on the North Sea
+                                                                     5/
+
+HANDBOOK for the CAR-TOURIST in the pleasant Islands of JERSEY,
+  GUERNSEY and ALDERNEY. Maps and Plans. Second Edition              1/
+
+SPAIN and PORTUGAL. (O'SHEA.) Seventh Edition. Edited by JOHN LOMAS.
+  Crown 8vo. Maps and Plans                                         15/
+
+
+From "Scotsman," June 2, 1884.
+
+_"C. B. Black's Guide-books have a character of their own; and that
+character is a good one. Their author has made himself personally
+acquainted with the localities with which he deals in a manner in which
+only a man of leisure, a lover of travel, and an intelligent observer of
+Continental life could afford to do. He does not 'get up' the places as
+a mere hack guide-book writer is often, by the necessity of the case,
+compelled to do. Hence he is able to correct common mistakes, and to
+supply information on minute points of much interest apt to be
+overlooked by the hurried observer."_
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ITINERARY THROUGH CORSICA
+
+by Its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads
+
+by
+
+C. B. BLACK
+
+Illustrated by Five Maps and One Plan
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Moor's Head]
+
+
+
+Edinburgh
+Adam and Charles Black
+1888
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS: CORSICA.
+
+  [Transcriber's Note:
+  The four pages consisting of the Contents and List of Illustrations
+  appeared twice in the original text, first as pgs. v-viii, then as
+  pgs. xv-xviii. (The intervening pages are absent.) The text and layout
+  are identical except that the first group is headed "Contents", the
+  second "Corsica." The repeated text has been omitted here.]
+
+                                                                    Page
+
+Corsica. --Position --Extent --Population --Highest Mountains
+  --Forests --Vegetation --Aspect --Climate --Steamboats               1
+
+Ajaccio. --Hotels --Cabs --Napoleon's Birthplace --Memorial
+  Chapel --Chapel of San Antonio --Chapelle Greco --Fontaine du
+  Salario --Family Sepulchral Chapels --Climate --Fair of
+  St. Pancras --Water Carriers --Curiosities                           3
+
+Ajaccio to Bastia by Corté. --This road traverses the centre
+  of the island diagonally, exhibits every characteristic of
+  Corsica, crosses the longest rivers, passes through one of the
+  greatest forests and by some of the highest mountains, and
+  connects the three principal towns. Rail between Corté and
+  Bastia                                                               7
+
+  From Vivario, p. 8, a road leads to the mineral water
+  establishment of Pietrapola. From Corté, p. 8, the ascent is
+  made of Mt. Rotondo. From the Ponte Francardo, p. 9, the most
+  important of the Forest roads extends S.W. to Porto by
+  Albertacce and Evisa. From Albertacce the ascent is made of
+  Mt. Cinto.
+
+  The great highway traversing the island from Prunete to Calvi
+  passes through Ponte alla Leccia, p. 9. From Bastia, p. 10,
+  are trains or diligences to every part of the east coast, and
+  steamers to Leghorn, Genoa, Nice and Marseilles.
+
+Bastia to Rogliano and Morsaglia, skirting the east coast of
+  the long peninsula called Cap Corse. This road follows more or
+  less the level of the sea till it reaches Macinaggio, whence
+  it ascends to Morsaglia. The highway on the western side of
+  Cap Corse is cut along the flanks of the mountains, generally
+  at a considerable height above the sea                              11
+
+Bastia to Calvi by St. Florent and the Ile Rousse                   14
+
+Calvi to Ajaccio, by Galeria, Porto and Sagona. From Galeria
+  and Porto great Forest roads penetrate into the interior            16
+
+GALERIA to the FORESTS of FILOSORMA. --Tourists should not
+  explore any of the great Forest roads without being provided
+  with letters to the dwellers in the maisons forestières and in
+  those of the Cantonniers; see p. 41 and map, p. 20                  16
+
+PORTO to the PONTE FRANCARDO. --The most important of all the
+  Forest roads. It passes through Evisa and by several good
+  "maisons forestières." From the Col Vergio is seen Mt.
+  Tafanato, with its natural tunnel, and from Albertacce is
+  commenced the ascent of Mt. Cinto. Several mule-paths ramify
+  from this forest road, the most important being to Lake Nino
+  and Corté, and to Asco: whence Mt. Cinto is also ascended. The
+  most famous part of the road itself is the Scala di Santa
+  Regina                                                              18
+
+Calvi to Corté or to BASTIA by PONTE ALLA LECCIA. --This road
+  traverses a most picturesque country, and the region of the
+  finest olive trees in the island                                    20
+
+BELGODERE to the FOREST of TARTAGINE. --This forest contains few
+  old trees, and is not of easy access                                21
+
+Ajaccio to Evisa, VICO and the BATHS of GUAGNO                      22
+
+Ajaccio to Sartène, by CAURO, APA, OLMETO and PROPRIANO. See
+  S.W. end of general map                                             23
+
+CAURO to BASTELICA. --Bastelica is the common name of a group of
+  hamlets, in one of which Sampiero was born. From this the
+  ascent is made of Mt. Renoso                                        24
+
+AJACCIO and APA to ZICAVO and the BATHS of GUITERA, by
+  Santa-Maria-Siché, Frasseto and Zecavo. S. Maria-Siché is the
+  birthplace of the fair and gentle Vanina. From Zicavo the
+  ascent is made of Mt. Incudine; whence is beheld the finest
+  view in Corsica. See maps on fly-leaf and fronting p. 27            24
+
+PROPRIANO to SOLENZARA, from the S.W. to the S.E. of the island.
+  This Route Forestière is better treated on p. 36, as Solenzara
+  to Sartène                                                          26
+
+Sartène to Corté by Vivario. --This is the great central
+  highway, of which the wildest and most difficult part is given
+  on map, p. 27. It leads to some fine forests, of which the
+  best is the Verde forest. At the most desolate portion are
+  tolerably comfortable maisons forestières. Vehicles should be
+  hired either at Sartène or Vivario, 20 to 25 frs. per day           27
+
+GHISONI to GHISONACCIA, by the route forestière, extending from
+  the central main road to the Ghisonaccia railway station on
+  the east coast. The most dangerous part of the road is the
+  "Passage" Inzecca. See map, p. 27                                   29
+
+SARTÈNE to BONIFACIO                                                  30
+
+Bonifacio to Bastia by the fertile plains and insalubrious
+  lakes of the east coast                                             31
+
+Aleria to Corté by a picturesque road following the course of
+  the Tavignano. Coach every other day                                33
+
+Prunete to Castagneto or ALESANI, by coach daily. Castagneto
+  is one of the villages in the Castagniccia or Chestnut
+  country. The road ascends all the way. It, as well as most
+  of the roads into the interior, should not be taken till the
+  chestnut trees are in leaf                                          33
+
+FOLELLI to STAZZONA by coach daily. Stazzona is the village
+  nearest to the Spa of Orezza. The road extends to Ponte alla
+  Leccia                                                              33
+
+VESCOVATO STATION to PORTA, by coach daily, passing Vescovato,
+  Venzolasca and Silvareccio. In summer the coach goes on to
+  Piedicroce                                                          34
+
+PONTE ALLA LECCIA to PIEDICROCE by "Courrier" daily                   34
+
+Piedicroce to Prunete-Railway Station, the finest part of the
+  road being between Piedicroce and Castagneto. Coach from
+  Castagneto to Prunete by Cervione. From Castagneto or Alesani
+  to Prunete see Prunete to Alesani, on p. 33                         35
+
+SOLENZARA, on the S.E. coast, to SARTÈNE, 46 m. S.W., by a
+  forest road with much fine scenery                                  36
+
+HISTORY, HABITS, AGRICULTURE and HOUSES OF REFUGE, called
+  "Maison" in the index                                               37
+
+
+LIST OF MAPS.
+
+                                                                    Page
+
+Sketch Map of the Riviera and Corsica, showing the relative
+  position of their principal towns; as also the ports connected
+  with each other by steamboat
+_Fly-leaf_
+
+General Map of Corsica                                               1
+
+Plan of Ajaccio. --The town is built on rising ground                3
+
+Environs of Ajaccio                                                  6
+
+The Western Central Region. --This is the least known and the
+  most difficult portion of the island to traverse. Yet easy and
+  picturesque short excursions may be made from Porto, Evisa and
+  Galeria, into the forests of evergreen oaks, etc                    20
+
+Central Corsica, or the most troublesome part of the grand
+  highway, which traverses Corsica from south to north, from
+  Sartène to Ponte alla Leccia, whence it ramifies eastward to
+  Bastia and westward to Calvi and Ile Rousse. It joins the
+  railway and the road between Ajaccio and Corté near Vivario         27
+
+
+
+
+CORSICA
+
+
+Is situated 54 miles W. from Leghorn, 98 m. S. from Genoa, and 106 m.
+S.E. from Nice. It is 116 m. long, 52 m. broad, and contains an area of
+3376 square miles; divided into 5 arrondissements, subdivided into 62
+cantons, and these again into 363 communes, with a population of
+275,000. The surface, of which little more than a tenth is under
+cultivation, is composed of lofty and rugged granite mountain chains,
+diverging in all directions from the culminating peaks of Mounts Cinto,
+8892 ft.; Rotondo, 8613 ft.; Pagliorba, 8278 ft.; Padro, 7846 ft.; and
+Oro, 8829 ft. On the western and southern sides of the island these
+ranges terminate abruptly on the shore, or run out into the sea; while,
+on the eastern side, a great undulating plain intervenes between their
+termination and the coast, in summer troubled with malaria, but in a
+less degree than formerly.
+
+Corsica is the central region of the great plant system of the
+Mediterranean. Among the many fine forests which cover the mountains,
+the most important are those of Valdoniello, Filosorma, Vizzavona Verde,
+Zonza, Bavella, Ometa and Calenzana. They contain noble specimens of
+pines, oaks, beech, chestnut, walnut and olive trees. The cork oak forms
+woods, chiefly in the south of the island. The chestnut trees are as
+large and fruitful as the best on the Apennines, and the nuts form the
+staple article of food for man and beast during the winter months.
+Indeed, these glorious chestnut and beech forests, when in full foliage,
+are the grand features of Corsican scenery, which therefore cannot be
+seen to advantage till towards the end of May, and if to this we add the
+splendid bloom of the oleanders, not till July. "I at any rate know of
+no such combination of sea and mountains, of the sylvan beauty of the
+north with the rich colours of the south; no region where within so
+small a space nature takes so many sublime and exquisite aspects as she
+does in Corsica. Palms, orange groves, olives, vines, maize and
+chestnuts; the most picturesque beech forests, the noblest pine woods in
+Europe; granite peaks, snows and frozen lakes--all these are brought
+into the compass of a day's journey. Everything is as novel to the
+Alpine climber as if, in place of being on a fragment of the Alps,
+severed only by 100 miles from their nearest snows, he was in a
+different continent."--D. W. Freshfield, Alpine Club.
+
+[Map: Corsica]
+
+[Headnote: VEGETATION.]
+
+The prickly pear, the American aloe, the castor-oil plant and the
+fig-tree, grow wild along the coast; while a little farther upwards, on
+the slopes and plateaus, the arbutus, cistus, oleander, myrtle and
+various kinds of heaths, form a dense coppice, called in the island
+maqui, supplying an excellent covert for various kinds of game and
+numerous blackbirds. When the arbutus and myrtle berries are ripe the
+blackbirds are eagerly hunted, as at that time they are plump and make
+very savoury and delicate eating.
+
+There are few cows on the island, the greater part of the milk supply
+being procured from goats. It is excellent, and has no rank flavour.
+
+The only remarkable creature is the mouflon, a species of sheep,
+resembling that almost extinct animal the bouquetin or ibex of the Alps.
+It inhabits the highest mountains, and though very wild is easily tamed.
+
+The best red wines are grown about Ajaccio, Tallano, Cervione and
+Sartene, and the best white wines in Sari and in the valleys of Cape
+Corso. They improve up to twenty years, and even up to fifty.
+
+The temperature of the climate of Corsica varies according to the
+elevation. Along the coast the sun is warm even in January. After
+January the temperature rises rapidly. The climate of the zone 2000 ft.
+above the sea is considerably colder and snow generally appears there in
+December. The olive ripens its fruit up to an elevation of 2000 ft. and
+the chestnut to 3000, where it gives place to oaks, box trees, junipers,
+firs and beeches. The greater part of the population inhabits the region
+of the chestnut trees, in villages scattered over the mountain slopes,
+valleys and tablelands.
+
+[Headnote: STEAMBOATS.]
+
+  Steamers to Corsica.--For invalids the easiest way is by the
+  large weekly Tunis steamer of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique,
+  12 R. de la Republique, which on its way from and to Marseilles,
+  touches at Ajaccio, 211 m. S., in 16 to 19 hrs., fare including
+  meals, 38 frs. The Compagnie Insulaire, 29 R. Cannebière, have boats
+  every week for Ajaccio and Propriano, 38 frs., Calvi and Ile Rousse,
+  28 frs., Bastia and Leghorn, 32 frs., and Nice, Bastia and Leghorn.
+  Weekly steamers between Genoa, Leghorn and Bastia. The boats of the
+  Compagnie Insulaire being smaller, come within a few yards of the
+  mole. The luggage is landed from the steamers by the company free of
+  expense and is delivered at the custom-house to the proprietor on
+  presentation of the bulletin de baggage. Passengers are taken ashore
+  and to their hotels for 2 frs. each.
+
+  The Navigazione Generale Italiana, Piazza Marini, Genoa, have a
+  steamer every week for Portotorres, at the north-west extremity of
+  Sicily, calling at Bastia. Also from Leghorn to Bastia. Distance 72
+  miles, fare 20 frs., time 7 hrs.
+
+  Small steamer between Ajaccio and Propriano twice weekly.
+
+
+
+
+AJACCIO.
+
+  _Hotels._--On an eminence, in its own grounds, rising gently from
+  the sea, is the *Grand Hotel, with sea and fresh water baths and
+  every convenience; opened at the end of the present year. A skilled
+  English physician on the premises.
+
+  There are besides three good family hotels, charging from 8 to 12
+  frs.; in the Course Grandval, the H. Continental, wine 1½ fr.,
+  carpeted brick floors, garden; near it, with south exposure and full
+  view of the bay, the *H. Suisse or Schweizerhof, wine 1 fr., smooth
+  wood floors, partially carpeted, garden; at the top of the Course
+  Grandval, the H. Bellevue, wine 1¼ fr., partially carpeted wood
+  floors, garden.
+
+  These prices include coffee or tea in the morning, meat breakfast
+  and dinner and service, but neither candles nor wine, of which the
+  lowest price per bottle is given above. In the Place Bonaparte is
+  the H. de France, a good French hotel, pension 8 to 12 frs.
+
+  _Bankers and Money-changers._--The bank Bozzo-Costa and the bank
+  Lanzi, both near each other in the Boulevard Roi Jerome.
+
+  The office of the Compagnie Transatlantique is in the same
+  Boulevard; the office of the Compagnie Insulaire is in the Place du
+  Marché.
+
+  _Cabs._--The course 1½ fr., the hour 2 frs., the day 25 frs.
+
+  Tariff of return drives, with 2 frs. extra for every hour of repose.
+
+  _West_ from Ajaccio: Scudo, 5 frs.; Vignola 1114 ft., 15 frs.;
+  Vignola village, 10 frs.; Lisa, 15 frs.; Iles Sanguinaires, 10 frs.;
+  St. Antoine, 5 frs.; Salario, 5 frs. _North_ from Ajaccio:
+  Castelluccio, 4 frs.; Mezzavia, 5 frs.; Alata and Col Carbinica, 25
+  frs.; Afa, 20 frs.
+
+  _East_ from Ajaccio: the Campo dell' Oro, or the plain at the mouth
+  of the Gravona, 5 frs.; the Baths of Caldaniccia, 5 frs.;
+  Bastelicaccia, 5 frs.; Pisciatella, 6 frs. Three frs. gratuity for a
+  whole day. The horses cover on an average about thirty miles a day.
+
+AJACCIO, pop. 19,050, the capital of Corsica, is situated on the
+extremity of a small gulf 677 miles from Paris and 15 to 20 hours' sail
+from Marseilles. Founded in 1492 by the Bank of St. George of Genoa, a
+commercial association similar to the East India Company, it was raised
+in 1811 through the influence of Madame Letitia and Cardinal Fesch to
+the dignity of capital of the island, and became accordingly the
+residence of the Préfet and the seat of the civil and ecclesiastical
+Courts. Ajaccio has a handsome Episcopal chapel built by Miss Campbell,
+of Moniack Castle, Scotland, an accomplished lady, the authoress of a
+work on the island in French and English.
+
+In the Cours Napoleon is a small French mission, whose worthy pastor,
+besides conducting the regular Sunday services, gives two lectures
+(conferences) every week, which are attended by from 80 to 100 people.
+
+The houses in Ajaccio, as well as those throughout the island, are
+generally built in large square blocks of from 3 to 5 stories, each
+story forming a separate dwelling.
+
+[Map: Ajaccio]
+
+[Headnote: NAPOLEON'S BIRTHPLACE.]
+
+The mole at which passengers land from the steamers is at the foot of
+the Place du Marché. In the centre of this "Place" is a fountain
+ornamented with lions and a white marble statue of Napoleon I. by
+Laboureur. To the left of the statue is the Hotel de Ville, the markets,
+and the commencement of the Rue Fesch, in which is the edifice
+containing the public library, the museum, and the memorial chapel
+(p. 5); while to the right is the Rue Napoleon, in which the first
+opening right leads into the Place Letitia. A little beyond this opening
+is No. 17, the house of the Pozzo di Borgo family, of whom Charles
+André, 1768-1842, was the great upholder of Paoli and the bitter enemy
+of Napoleon I. Napoleon's house, though not equal to that of the Borgo
+family, was one of the best in Ajaccio. It is well built, of three
+stories of six windows each, and all the rooms have a more or less
+handsome marble chimney-piece. Over the door is inscribed on white
+marble "Napoleon est né dans cette maison le XV Aovt MDCCLXIX". A good
+staircase, bordered by a wrought-iron railing, leads to the top. The
+rooms shown are on the first floor. The first is the parlour, with a
+small table, a few chairs, and a piano said to have belonged to Mme.
+Letitia. Then after having passed through a small chamber we enter the
+room in which Napoleon was born, into which Madame was brought hurriedly
+from the church in the sedan chair kept in the end room. Over the
+chimney-piece are portraits of the father and mother. Then follows the
+dining-room, and after it the drawing-room, with inlaid wood floor and
+six windows on both sides. The floors of all the other rooms are of
+glazed tiles. In the next room is the sedan chair. Fee for party 1 fr.
+
+This now silent and empty house was once enlivened and brightened by the
+fair Letitia and her large family of children, just like other men's
+children; schoolboys toiling at their Plutarch or Cæsar, and their three
+young sisters growing up careless and rather wild, like their
+neighbours' daughters, in the half-barbarous island town. There is
+Joseph, the eldest, then Napoleon, the second born, then Lucien, Louis,
+and Jerome; then Caroline, Eliza, and Pauline, the children of a notary
+of moderate income, who is incessantly and vainly carrying on law-suits
+with the Jesuits of Ajaccio to gain a contested estate which is
+necessary to his numerous family. Their future fills him with anxiety;
+what will they be in the world and how will they secure a comfortable
+subsistence? And behold! these same children, one after the other, take
+to themselves the mightiest crowns of the earth--tear them from the
+heads of the most unapproachable kings of Europe and wear them in the
+sight of all the world; and they, the sons of an Ajaccio lawyer, cause
+themselves to be embraced as brothers and brothers-in-law by emperors
+and kings. Napoleon is European Emperor; Joseph King of Spain; Louis
+King of Holland; Jerome King of Westphalia; Caroline Queen of Naples and
+Pauline and Eliza Princesses of Italy. In 1793, after the flight of
+Madame Letitia and her children to her country residence, the Casone,
+the house was pillaged by the Corsicans opposed to the French Republic.
+
+[Headnote: CATHEDRAL.]
+
+Near the Place Letitia is the cathedral built in the 16th century by
+Pope Gregory. It contains the font at which Napoleon I. was baptized on
+the 21st July 1771.
+
+[Headnote: MEMORIAL CHAPEL.]
+
+In the Rue Fesch is the College founded in 1822. In one wing of the
+edifice is the public library, with 33,000 volumes, founded by Lucien
+Bonaparte, and the museum and picture gallery, with 900 paintings,
+mostly copies; and in the other the memorial chapel built by Napoleon
+III., lined with beautiful marble. In the crypt under the transept, left
+hand, is the tomb of Marie Letitia Ramolino, died at Rome in 1836; and
+right hand, that of Napoleon's uncle, Cardinal Fesch, died at Rome in
+1839. Both bodies were brought to this, their present resting-place, in
+1851. There are, besides, the tombs of Prince Charles and of Zenaida his
+daughter. Napoleon's father died in 1785 and is buried at Montpellier.
+Madame was only 35 at his death and had already borne him 13 children,
+5 of whom were dead, and Jerome was an infant in the cradle.
+
+Parallel with the Rue Fesch is the Cours Napoleon, by which all the
+diligences enter and leave the town. The continuation round the bay is
+bordered with plane trees. At the commencement is a bronze statue of
+"E. C. Abbatucci né à Zicavo le 12 Novembre 1770, mort pour la patrie
+le 2 Decembre 1796." Near it is the railway station.
+
+At the western end of the Cours Napoleon is the Place Bonaparte or
+Diamant, bordered with trees and ornamented with a complicate bronze
+monument on a granite pedestal by Violet le Duc, "à la memoire de
+Napoleon I. et de ses frères Joseph, Lucien, Louis, Jerome." All are
+life-size statues; Napoleon is on horseback, the others on foot,
+marching solemnly towards the sea.
+
+
+[Headnote: WALKS.]
+
+EXCURSIONS.
+
+From the port, 11 m. W., is the chapel S. Antonio, 850 ft. The road
+passes the penitentiary of S. Antonio, 331 ft. North from it, under
+the peak of La Barrage, 1476 feet, is the Castelluccio penitentiary.
+Westward by the Hospice Eugenie and the Batterie de Maestrello, a
+pleasant road leads along the coast to the orange gardens of Barbicaja,
+passing by the Chapelle de Greco and the cemetery. About 4 m. farther is
+the Tête Parata, 199 ft., opposite the Iles Sanguinaires.
+
+A beautiful road, the continuation of the Cours Grandval, ascends 2½ m.
+to the Fontaine du Salario, 760 ft., commanding enchanting views. This
+road traverses the Place Casone, 144 ft., occupying the site of the
+Casone, the country house of the Bonapartes, destroyed in 1878. Close by
+is the "grotte Napoleon," composed of blocks of granite, to which, it is
+said, the youthful Napoleon used to retire.
+
+About 6 m. N. from Ajaccio is the village of Alata, 1312 ft. Within an
+easy walking distance north from Ajaccio is the pleasant estate of
+Carrosaccia, on the canal which supplies the town with water from the
+Gravona. 5½ m. N. from Ajaccio are the sulphurous springs of
+Caldaniccia.
+
+[Headnote: FAMILY TOMBS.]
+
+In the neighbourhood of Ajaccio and of the other Corsican towns and
+villages are numerous family sepulchral chapels enclosed within walls. A
+more pleasing characteristic feature, probably inherited from the Moors,
+are the numerous fountains in the villages and by the road side, whence
+flow streams of cold, sparkling water of exquisite purity.
+
+[Headnote: CLIMATE.]
+
+_Climate._--For convalescent invalids, Ajaccio forms a delightful change
+from the Riviera, as it is so rural, and has such pleasant air and good
+water. The hotels are comfortable and their charges moderate. As, too,
+the road metal used around Ajaccio is that disintegrating granite which
+so readily solidifies by the combined action of the rain and traffic,
+there is very little dust in the neighbourhood (p. 9).
+
+The principal winds are the Libeccio or S.W. wind, the Sirocco or S.E.
+wind, and the Mistral or N.W. wind.
+
+On the 12th, 13th and 14th of May the fair of St. Pancras is held, which
+affords a good opportunity for purchasing Corsican horses. They are from
+10 to 14 hands high and of great endurance. It is wonderful to behold
+the energy these small slim creatures display in dragging heavy
+lumbering diligences up long, steep, winding roads.
+
+But more wonderful still is it to see the peasant women and girls as
+young as thirteen carrying on their heads up and down the mountain paths
+big pails, or the more elegant two-handled brass jars of classic form,
+containing about two gallons of water, without ever stumbling on any of
+the many stones. The pails are made of copper lined with tin, weighing
+when full of water from 55 lbs. to 65 lbs.
+
+Among the curiosities of Ajaccio are gourds made into bottles, of
+various shapes and sizes and mounted with silver, and the pretty baskets
+made of straw by the girls of Alata.
+
+
+[Map: Environs of Ajaccio]
+
+
+Ajaccio to Bastia.
+
+  Ajaccio to Bocognano by rail, thence by diligence to Corté; Corté to
+  Bastia by rail 47 m., or 44 by road. The road from Ajaccio ascends
+  the valley of the Gravona to its source at the Col Vizzavona. On the
+  N. side of the Col it follows the course of the Vecchio. The most
+  picturesque part of this route is between Vizzavona and Vivario.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{ }{95}
+AJACCIO. Start from the station in the Cours Napoleon. The road, after
+traversing the fertile plain of Campo dell Oro, crosses the Col
+Sudricchio, 804 ft., and then the bridge of Ucciani, 948 ft., built in
+the reign of Louis XIV., 17½ m. from Ajaccio and 2 m. from the village
+of Ucciani. Use general map, and map, p. 27.
+
+[Headnote: BOCOGNANO.]
+
+{25}{70}
+BOCOGNANO, pop. 2000, and 2120 ft. above the sea. _Inn:_ Univers.
+Picturesquely situated in a plantation of chestnut trees, surrounded by
+high mountain peaks. Near Bocognano commences the Vizzavona tunnel, 4375
+yards through the mountain. Diligence now to Corté. The road, having
+crossed the Sellola bridge, 2843 ft., winds its way up by the Col de
+Pinzalone, 3370 ft., and the Maison and Pont de Lavatoggio 3615 ft. to
+the top of the ridge. See map, p. 27.
+
+[Headnote: VIZZAVONA.]
+
+[Headnote: PINES.]
+
+{31}{64}
+LE FORT DE VIZZAVONA, on the summit of the Pass, 3813 ft. above the sea,
+with the Gendarmerie and a few houses of refuge. A few miles northwards
+is Monte d'Oro, 7845 ft., and southwards Monte Renoso, 7733 ft. The
+diligence, in its descent to Vivario, traverses the forest of Vizzavona,
+consisting mainly of beeches and larches, frequently 150 ft. high. Of
+this tree there are two varieties, the _Pinus pinaster_ or cluster pine,
+the _Pin maritime_ of the French, which grows best on deep loose soils
+and flourishes even on the drifting sands of the sea shore. They supply
+large quantities of resin. Their wood being soft, coarse and perishable,
+is usually converted into charcoal and lamp black. The other is the
+_Pinus laricio_, which thrives on the high lands of Corsica, Spain,
+south of France, Greece and Cyprus. Their growth is rapid, the trunk
+straight and from 100 to 150 ft. high, the branches are in regular
+whorls, forming in large trees a pyramidal head, and the leaves are
+slender, from 4 to 7 inches long, and of a dark green tint. The timber
+is good and durable, though less strong than that of the _Pinus
+silvestris_. Between the 51st and 53d kilomètre stones are passed the
+"Maison de Refuge d'Alzarella," and the "Maison de refuge Omellina,"
+2832 ft.
+
+After crossing the Col de Campo di Lupo, 2684 ft., 35 m. from Ajaccio,
+the road descends into the ravine of the Vecchio, above which is
+
+[Headnote: VIVARIO.]
+
+{38}{57}
+VIVARIO, pop. 1500, and 2152 ft. _Inn:_ H. Voyageurs a three-storied
+house. Junction with road to Zicavo, 37 m. S. (pp. 27,29). Although
+Vivario be a poor village, yet it has a terrace and fountain ornamented
+with a statue of Diana. The breeding of pigs fed in the adjoining
+chestnut forest, and the manufacture of hams, sausages and bacon, are
+the most important industries of the inhabitants.
+
+  From Vivario a forest road extends 27 m. S.E. to the hamlet of
+  Vadina, by Muracciole 2022 ft., 1½ m., the Col Erbajo 3018 ft.,
+  7 m.; Pietroso 10½ m., Saparelli 12½ m., and Quinzena 18 m. From
+  Vadina a good carriage road leads 6 m. to the Baths of Pietrapola,
+  which are supplied by most copious springs of hot, saline,
+  sulphurous water. The season is from May 1 to June 30; or
+  September 1 to November 30. The situation is beautiful and the
+  bathing-establishment and lodging accommodation comfortable, and
+  much frequented.
+
+The road from Vivario to Serraggio passes along the top of the rocky
+gorge of the foaming Vecchio. The best view of the gorge is from the
+Pont du Vecchio 40 m. from Ajaccio and 280 ft. above the bed. From
+Serraggio, 1890 ft., Mt d'Oro is well seen. See map, p. 20.
+
+The road now passes Lugo, 1980 ft.; S. Pietro, 2496 ft.; the Col. S.
+Nicolo, 2473 ft.; and Casanova, 2136 ft., to
+
+[Headnote: CORTÉ.]
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{51}{44}
+CORTÉ, 1329 ft., pop. 5500. _Hotels:_ *Paoli, 8 to 10 frs., Europe. Is
+situated at the junction of the Tavignano with the Restonico, in the
+midst of majestic mountains of the most varied form. The citadel or
+château, built in the early part of the 15th century, stands on
+precipitous and jagged rocks rising from the Tavignano, commanding from
+the top a magnificent view of the wild surrounding scenery. In the
+"Place" is a statue of Paoli, the Corsican patriot, born at Stretta in
+1726, and to the right of the statue the post and telegraph office. In
+the immediate neighbourhood stands a large house, a Franciscan convent,
+in which the Corsican parliament assembled in Paoli's time. Near Corté,
+by the left side of the Restonico, is a quarry of marble of a bluish
+tint with reddish white veins. To take the walk up the gorge of the
+Restonico, descend by first road left up the main street from the hotels
+and cross only the Tavignano bridge. The mountain appearing to close the
+valley is Mte. Rotondo. See map, p. 20.
+
+Coach to Aleria, 31 m. S.E. (p. 33), by a beautiful road.
+
+Just outside Corté the rail traverses the Torretta tunnel, 1531 yards.
+
+[Headnote: MTE. ROTONDO.]
+
+  From Corté the ascent of Monte Rotondo is most easily effected. It
+  is 8613 feet above the sea-level, or 7284 feet above Corté. Cabins
+  inhabited by the herdsmen are scattered over the declivities of the
+  mountain up to within 3000 feet of the top. Time 2 days. Guide with
+  mule 25 frs. Ascend by the road up the picturesque valley of the
+  Restonico to the Timozzo bridge, 3590 feet, and 2½ hours from Corté.
+  From this the path extends 1½ hour up the wild ravine of the Timozzo
+  to the shepherds' huts; whence the rest must be done on foot. Now
+  the hard work commences. Block lies above block, towering upwards
+  and upwards in such endless masses of monotonous gray that the heart
+  quails with the sight and the foot trembles to go farther. After
+  about 2 hours' scramble over these colossal steps the traveller
+  reaches the fontaine de Triggione, about 2200 feet below the summit
+  and in full view of it, an incomplete circle of steep jagged cliffs.
+  About 330 feet higher is a little dark lake, the Lago di Monte
+  Rotondo, encircled by gentle green slopes, where the night is
+  generally spent. Snow-field extend from the lake to the summit,
+  which, although apparently near, requires 2 full hours' climbing to
+  reach, often on hands and feet, over sharp fragments of rock, or up
+  steep beds of slippery frozen snow. The extreme peak is a rugged
+  obelisk of gray rock ending in a pinnacle. A way leads down by the
+  S. side in 6 hours, to Guagno by lake Bettianella, 3419 ft., then W.
+  by the road over the Col de Manganella, 5874 ft. See map, p. 20.
+
+[Headnote: GRANITE.]
+
+  "The view from Monte Rotondo did not impress me. The central
+  uplands, which form a large portion of it, are bare and arid, while
+  the great ridge of Monte Cinto stretches across the northern horizon
+  like a long screen. Comparatively little of the coast is seen in any
+  direction, but most towards the west. It was curious to notice how
+  completely the tops of the mountains between us and the Cinto ridge
+  were flattened down, while the crest on which we stood was a set of
+  bristling teeth. There are two kinds of granite in Corsica, one
+  friable and unable to resist the action of the air, the other hard
+  and defiant of the elements. Of this latter consist the Cinto range,
+  Monte Rotondo and the rocks in the forest of Bavella."--D. W.
+  Freshfield, Alpine Club.
+
+The road now from Corté to Bastia traverses the Quilico Col, 1932 ft.,
+passes Soveria, 1843 ft., and Caporalino, 8 m. from Corté, 36 from
+Bastia and 1 m. from Omessa. About 1½ m. farther it crosses the Golo by
+the Francardo bridge, 856 ft., where it meets the great Forest Road from
+Porto, 50 m. S.W. by Evisa and the Col de Vergio, p. 18, and map, p. 20.
+
+[Headnote: PONTE LECCIA.]
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{66}{29}
+PONTE ALLA LECCIA, 624 ft. Village, and coach and railway station.
+_Inn:_ Cyrnoz. Diligence to Calvi by the beautiful northern continuation
+of the road from Prunete by Cervione and Piedicroce, p. 20. "Courrier"
+daily to Piedicroce, 18 m. S.E. by Morosaglia, see p. 34. During the
+summer heats Ponte alla Leccia is considered insalubrious.
+
+[Headnote: PONTE NOVO.]
+
+{71}{24}
+PONTE NOVO. The site of the disastrous battle fought on the 9th of May
+1769, when the Corsicans lost their independence and became subject to
+France. The two small houses on the right bank, a little farther down
+the river, were Paoli's headquarters. One month afterwards he, with some
+other Corsican refugees, sailed from Porto Vecchio in a British vessel
+for England (p. 39).
+
+[Headnote: BORGO.]
+
+{85}{10}
+BORGO, pop. 820. On the Mariana hills, rising from Lake Biguglia, one of
+the many lagoons on the eastern coast, separated from the sea by narrow
+sandbanks. Along this coast extend the only large plains in Corsica.
+Unfortunately, in summer they are subject to malaria, which, however, a
+judicious system of drainage is gradually abating. They are cultivated
+by Italian labourers who visit the island periodically. Between Borgo
+and Bastia is Bevinco, with valuable marble quarries. Southward from
+Borgo on the coast is Mariana, the site of the colony founded by Marius
+(p. 34).
+
+[Headnote: BASTIA.]
+
+{95}
+BASTIA, pop. 21,000. _Hotels:_ *France; Europe; Lingenieur; Croix de
+Malte over the post and telegraph office, all in the Boul. du Palais, 8
+to 10 frs. Theatre; Public Library with 65,000 volumes. Steamers twice a
+week to Marseilles, time 18 hours, touching once a week at Nice, 12
+hours distant. Fare direct to Marseilles, including food, 28 frs. To
+Nice, without food, 30 frs. Rubattino's steamers leave three times a
+week for Leghorn; time 6 hours. These same steamers proceed afterwards
+to Genoa. Railway to Corté. Rail also to Aleria, whence diligence to
+Bonifacio, Sartène and Ajaccio.
+
+Diligences daily from Bastia to Cap Corse, 7 hours, 6 or 5 frs.; and
+also to Calvi, 12 hours, 13 or 10 frs.
+
+[Headnote: BRANDO.]
+
+Carriages to visit the stalactite cave at Brando, 10 frs. Admission 2
+frs. each. It is 7 m. from Bastia, above Erbalunga, on the face of a
+mountain; and was discovered in 1841 by M. Ferdinandi. A steep path
+leads up to it. Keeper near cave. See p. 12.
+
+_Bastia_, the most important city of Corsica, is built on ground rising
+gently from the sea. Facing the sea and the principal harbour is the
+Place St. Nicholas, adorned with a marble statue of Napoleon I., by
+Bartolini, looking towards the island of Elba. In this "Place", the
+promenade of the town, are the offices of the Messageries Maritimes and
+of the Compagnie Insulaire. Fraissinet's office is at the old harbour;
+whence also their steamers sail.
+
+From the Place St. Nicholas ascends the principal street, the Boulevard
+du Palais, to the Palais de Justice. In this Boulevard are the post and
+telegraph offices (whence most of the diligences start), the hotels,
+cafés and the best shops, and from it ramify the streets of the town. At
+the top of the B. du Palais commences, right hand, the Boul. Cardo, one
+of the best roads to take for views of the town and neighbourhood. A
+flight of steps leads from the quay up to the cathedral, a handsome
+building in the Italian style. The markets are held in the "Place"
+fronting the cathedral. Most of the houses are built in large blocks
+from 5 to 6 stories high and from 6 to 9 windows broad, each story
+forming a separate residence.
+
+Bastia owes its name to the bastion built here by the Genoese in the
+14th century. From the hills behind Bastia the view embraces the islands
+of Gorgona, Capraja, Elba, and Monte-Christo, seen best from the top of
+the Serra di Pigno, 3640 feet. Refer to map on fly-leaf.
+
+[Headnote: STEAMERS.]
+
+The most beautiful part of Corsica, and the most easily visited, is the
+eastern side, including the Castagniccia or the chestnut country, and
+the whole region up in the mountains, which border this coast. The
+wealthiest, most industrious and most enterprising of the people are
+those who inhabit that long narrow tongue of land called Cap Corse.
+Although boats are constantly sailing from Marseilles and Leghorn to
+Bastia, invalids visiting Corsica with the intention of wintering in
+Ajaccio should, if possible, sail from Marseilles or Nice direct to
+Ajaccio; but on leaving the island, when winter is over, Bastia is
+perhaps the best port to sail from, as it affords an excellent
+opportunity for visiting the most beautiful parts of Corsica and the
+most important towns in Italy. On arriving at Leghorn (see Black's
+_South France_) it is best to proceed at once to the railway station,
+and start for Pisa, only 30 minutes distant. There are numerous trains.
+At the station and in the kiosques in the "Piazzas" of Leghorn, is sold
+an excellent little book with all the railway Time-tables, _L'Indicatore
+Ufficiale_, price 50 c.
+
+
+[Headnote: CAP CORSE.--WINE.]
+
+CAP CORSE.
+
+Bastia to Rogliano and Morsaglia.
+
+See General Map, p. 1.
+
+By diligence, fare to Rogliano, 4 frs. and 3 frs., distance 27½ m., 6
+hrs. To Morsaglia, 5½ and 4½ frs., distance 37½ m., 8 hrs. By the road
+skirting the eastern side of the peninsula of Cap Corse, the best
+cultivated part of the island, and containing the tidiest villages. The
+best Cap Corse wine, mostly white, is produced around Luri and Rogliano.
+The quality used as table wine is drunk the first year. It improves till
+the fifth year, the better qualities till the tenth and twentieth year.
+Cap Corse is traversed by a rugged mountain range or serra, of which the
+culminating peaks are Mount Alticcione, 4230 feet; Mount Stello, 4536
+feet; and the Serra de Pigno, 3640 feet. From the east side of this
+rugged serra little fertile valleys extend to the sea.
+
+[Headnote: PINO.--LURI.]
+
+  Mr. Freshfield thus describes the "Cap":--"Down a promontory 8 to
+  10 m. wide runs a range 3000 to 4000 ft. high, with the crest towards
+  the western coast and the valleys towards the eastern. Hence the
+  western Cornice road is a terrace along an always steep, sometimes
+  sheer, mountain side, while the eastern crosses a succession of low
+  maquis-covered spurs, which beyond Cap Sagro flatten and become
+  monotonous. Pino is one of the most beautiful sites on the western
+  coast. It is also important as the spot where the cross-road through
+  the vale of Luri, under Seneca's tower, falls into the western
+  Cornice. Half-way on this road the village of Luri groups itself in
+  the most picturesque way imaginable on a hill-side broken by a deep
+  ravine. Down on the seashore above the little Marina or port is a
+  large convent; a church occupies a projecting brow 200 ft. above it;
+  higher still, and right and left, every vantage-ground is occupied
+  by groups of well-built villas and sepulchral chapels. The slopes
+  are terraced into orchards of citron, lemon, peach and almond trees,
+  olive groves and vineyards, sheltered from the gales of winter by
+  high palisades."
+
+  Farther south, 5¼ m., is Nonza, with inn, 479 ft., pop. 550. Coach
+  to St. Florent. This is one of the most curious villages of the
+  island. It stands like an eagle's nest, perched above the sea on a
+  black rock on the mountain side. Its houses, built level with the
+  edge of the cliffs, formed in olden days a sufficient rampart
+  against marauders.
+
+The diligence having passed Lavasina 4½ m. from Bastia, Brando 7 m., and
+Erbalunga 6¼ m., halts at Sisco-port 9¼ m. To visit the cave of Brando
+take the steep narrow path left, near a mill, just before arriving at
+Erbalunga. Seats in shady places are placed here and there. The keeper's
+house is close to the entrance. The diligence then proceeds by
+Pietracorbara 11½ m., and the Torre all'Osse 13 m.; one of the best
+remaining specimens of the 85 towers built by the Pisans and Genoese to
+ward off the attacks of the Saracens. From the Torre the diligence
+proceeds other 2 m. to Perticciolo, where it halts.
+
+[Headnote: SENECA'S TOWER.]
+
+Two miles farther is S. Severa, where the horses are changed and the
+passengers breakfast. From S. Severa, a road ramifies 10 m. W. to Pino
+on the other side of the peninsula by the valley of the Luri, with
+vineyards and orange groves, passing the village of Luri 3½ m., with
+good inn, the Col de S. Lucie 7 m., 1363 ft., and Saronese 9¾ m. From
+the Santa Severa inn, Seneca's tower is distinctly seen, at the head of
+the valley, on the summit of a precipitous peak, rising from the S. side
+of the Col, 1355 ft., from which a steep, stony path leads up to it, by
+a forsaken Franciscan convent. The view is grand. To this tower, one of
+the many watch-towers built in the 12th cent., Seneca could never have
+been sent, but to the Roman colony of Mariana, then used as a place of
+banishment for political offenders.
+
+[Headnote: SENECA.]
+
+Lucius Annæus Seneca was born at Cordova in Spain, just before the
+commencement of the Christian era. His eldest brother was A. Seneca
+Novatus, which name was altered afterwards to that of his adopted
+father, Junius Gallio. This brother was the proconsul of Achaia, before
+whom St. Paul was arraigned (Acts xviii. 12). While Seneca was still a
+child he was brought by his aunt to Rome, where he had for teachers
+Sotion, Papirius Fabianus and Attalus the Stoic. Although weak in body
+he was a most diligent student, which, joined to his powerful memory,
+enabled him to obtain at an early age important offices. Before his
+banishment, A.D. 41, he had already served as quæstor. Having irritated
+Caligula, he would have been put to death, had not one of the mistresses
+of the emperor assured him that it was not worth while, as Seneca was so
+consumptive he would soon die a natural death.
+
+In the first year of the reign of Claudius, his wife Messalina having
+become jealous of the influence his niece Julia, daughter of Germanicus,
+had over Claudius her husband, succeeded in getting rid of her by
+imputing to her improper intimacy with Seneca, then a married man. For
+that reason Seneca was banished to Corsica A.D. 41.
+
+During his exile he wrote his consolatory letter to his mother Helvia,
+as well as a panegyric on Messalina and a consolatory letter to
+Polybius, ostensibly to condole with him on the loss of his brother; but
+in reality to get that powerful freedman to exert his influence with the
+emperor, to recall his sentence of exile. This letter is full of fulsome
+flattery and expressions unworthy of an honest man.
+
+After the death of Messalina, Claudius married his niece Agrippina,
+sister of Julia and mother of Nero by a former husband. Through her
+influence Seneca was recalled A.D. 49 and appointed a prætor and tutor
+to Nero, then 11 years old. In A.D. 51 Agrippina poisoned her husband.
+
+
+[Headnote: MACINAGGIO.--ROGLIANO.]
+
+From S. Severa, the diligence, resuming its journey, passes Meria
+20½ m., and halts again at the port of Macinaggio 2½ m. more. From this
+commences the steep ascent up to Rogliano 1300 ft., a town built in
+groups on the side of the mountain, among vineyards and olive and
+chestnut trees, the inn being in the second highest group, near the
+post-office. After Rogliano the diligence crosses the Cols S. Anne,
+Cappiaja and S. Nicholas, and arrives at Botticella 31 m., and then
+proceeds to Ersa with inn, near the top of the Col de Serra 1182 ft.,
+commanding a good view of Cap Corse. Shortly afterwards the diligence
+arrives at Morsaglia, called also Pecorile, a village composed of groups
+of houses like Rogliano on the side of a hill. The conductor of the
+diligence will show the hotel. Six miles S. from Morsaglia is Pino, see
+p. 12.
+
+[Headnote: BOTTICELLA.]
+
+From Botticella a road leads 4½ m. N. to Barcaggio, opposite the island
+of Giraglia, on which is a first-class lighthouse, 269 feet above the
+sea, seen within a radius of 14 m.
+
+From Morsaglia the road is continued 31 m. farther to the Col S.
+Bernardino on the Bastia and St. Florent road, passing Pino, 25 m. from
+the Col S. Bernardino; Minerbio, 21½ m.; Marinca, 16 m.; Nonza, 9 m.;
+Farinole, 2½ m.; Pont du Patrimonio, 1¼ m.; and joins the Bastia road at
+the Col S. Bernardino, 11¼ m. W. from Bastia.
+
+
+Bastia to Calvi.
+
+57 miles west; time 12 hours; fare 13 and 10 frs.
+
+[Headnote: COL TEGHIME.]
+
+  miles from BASTIA
+  miles to   CALVI
+
+{ }{57}
+BASTIA. The road traverses a mountainous country, with scanty
+vegetation. As far as St. Florent the prevailing rocks are micaceous and
+beyond granitic. Immediately after leaving Bastia the diligence
+commences the ascent of the Col de Teghime (1785 feet) in the Serra di
+Pigno, discovering as it winds its way upwards, an ever-extending
+panorama over the great eastern plain, including Lake Biguglia, and the
+Mediterranean with the islands of Elba, Gorgona and Monte Christo. As
+the road descends towards the western shore, the enchanting panorama of
+the blue gulf of St. Florent, encircled by low reddish rocks, gradually
+unfolds itself. It was at this road, made by Count Marboeuf, at which,
+it is said, King Bernadotte worked among the other labourers. It passes
+the hamlets of Barbaggio and Patrimonio, the Col St. Bernardino 11¼ m.
+from Bastia, and the Pont des Strette, and enters the valley of Nebbio,
+partly watered by the sluggish Aliso, flowing through a marsh crowded
+with oleanders.
+
+[Headnote: ST. FLORENT.]
+
+{14¼}{42¾}
+ST. FLORENT, pop. 760. Hôtel de l'Europe, where a hurried breakfast can
+be had while the horses are being changed. Close to the village is the
+site of the ancient town of Nebbio, occupied now by a few poor houses
+and a small church, now a ruin, built in the 12th century. Napoleon
+said, "St. Florent has one of the finest situations I have ever seen. It
+lies most favourably for commerce, its landing places are safe and its
+roads can accommodate large fleets. I should have built there a large
+and beautiful city." It was one of the first places to give adherence to
+the Bank of Genoa.
+
+The road now for some distance leaves the shore and ascends a range of
+barren hills containing slate, limestone and granite. Hardy trees become
+more abundant than the chestnut, and the mountains higher and more
+imposing, as we approach the little port of
+
+[Headnote: L'ILE ROUSSE.]
+
+{42}{15}
+L'ILE ROUSSE, pop. 1610; Hotel Europe. The diligence stops in the
+"Place" near the monument to Pascal Paoli, and remains a sufficient time
+to enable the traveller to cast a glance over the main features of this
+port, founded by Paoli in 1759. The street beyond the "Place" leads by
+the market to the harbour and to the long jagged tongue of red sandstone
+rocks projecting into the sea, bearing on the extreme point a lighthouse
+of the fourth order. Steamer every alternate week to Marseilles. There
+is a charming view from the eminence St. Reparata, crowned with a
+church, now abandoned.
+
+Inland from L'Ile Rousse is the fertile valley of Balagna, famous for
+the size and fertility of its olive trees (p. 20).
+
+{47}{10}
+ALGAJOLA, pop. 200. The block of granite which forms the pedestal of the
+column in the Place Vendome came from the quarries of this place.
+Pillars 65 feet long can be procured from this quarry.
+
+[Headnote: LUMIO.]
+
+{51}{6}
+LUMIO, pop. 1100, among orange groves and high cactus hedges. From the
+hills here there is a beautiful view of the valley and gulf of Calvi.
+Junction here with road to Corté, 55½ miles, south-east, passing through
+a charming and picturesque country (see p. 20).
+
+[Headnote: CALVI.]
+
+{57}
+CALVI, pop. 2200. _Inns:_ H. France, in the high town; *Colombani, in
+the low town, near the dil. office and the wharf. Steamer for Marseilles
+every alternate week. This, the nearest port to France, is composed of
+the Citadel or Haute Ville and the Port or Basse Ville. The former,
+although the residence of the public functionaries, has a dilapidated
+and forsaken appearance. A rough road, paved with blocks of granite,
+leads up to it and to the ramparts, commanding beautiful and extensive
+views. The houses, shops and streets of the Basse Ville are much better
+and more cheerful than those in the Citadel. Both are defended by Fort
+Mozzello, rising behind the harbour. On the Punta-Revellata is a
+lighthouse of the first order, with a fixed light seen 20 miles off.
+Eight miles S.E. from Calvi is Calenzana, pop. 2900, with the chapel of
+S. Restituta, visited by pilgrims.
+
+
+Calvi to Ajaccio.
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   AJACCIO
+
+{ }{102}
+Distance 102 miles S.E. The road skirts the coast the greater part of
+the way. The first village is Galeria, pop. 500--_Inn:_ Seta, 21 miles
+S. from Calvi. From Galeria the Route Forestière, No. 8, extends 16
+miles eastwards to the Col Capronale, 4495 feet, in the forest of Ometa.
+Six miles from Galeria is the entrance to the forest of evergreen oaks
+of Treccio, as well as the commencement of the road, 4½ m. long, to the
+forest of Perticato by the Col Erbajo, 3½ m., 2090 ft., and the Bocca
+Melza, 4½ m. 2500 ft.
+
+
+Galeria to the Forests of Filosorma.
+
+Grand scenery. Guide necessary. Map, p. 20.
+
+  This, the forest road No. 8, has two ramifications. The main line
+  follows the course of the Fango the whole way, and only becomes a
+  mule-path when near the Maison de Cantonniers d'Ometa, 14 m. E.
+
+  3¾ m. from Galeria a mule-path ramifies from the road to the hamlets
+  of Tuarelli, Prunicciole and Chiorna. 3 m. farther is the
+  ramification, 4½ m. S., through the forest of Perticato by the Col
+  d'Erbajo, 2090 ft., 3½ m. S., and the Bocca Melza, 2500 ft., 4½ m. S.
+  From the Bocca Melza a very bad path leads 2 m. S. to the hamlet of
+  Pinito. At the beginning of the above ramification the main road
+  enters the Ilex forest of Treccio, and leaves it nearly 2 m.
+  afterwards.
+
+  8¾ m. from Galeria is a roadside inn, and 3¼ m. farther the entrance
+  into the Ilex forest of Ometa.
+
+  11¼ m. from Galeria and about 2 m. from the almost unknown valley of
+  the Lonca, an affluent of the Porto, is the Pont de Lancone, 1083
+  ft., across the Rocce. From this bridge there is a good view of Mt.
+  Tafonato, 7687 ft., to the N. E., with its singularly perforated
+  peak.
+
+  13¼ m. is the Grand Cassis d'Ometa, 1680 ft. A little farther the
+  road becomes a bridle-path, and ascends from 1677 ft. to the Maison
+  de Cantonniers d'Ometa, 2274 ft., and 1 m. farther is the end of the
+  forest of Ometa.
+
+  15 m. from Galeria is the Grand Cassis de Giargione, 1163 ft., and
+  about 2 m. farther the summit of Col Capronale, 4495 ft. A little
+  way beyond, at the Capo Guagnerola, is a beautiful semicircle of
+  reddish rocks covered with trees at the base. Farther E. by the Golo
+  this forest road joins the forest road No. 9 to Francardo (p. 18).
+
+  Having crossed the Col de Castellaccio, 850 feet, and passed through
+  the villages of Partinello and Vitriccia, 20 m. from Galeria, we
+  arrive at
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   AJACCIO
+
+{51}{51}
+PORTO (_Inn:_ H. Padoram), occupying a pleasant and sheltered situation
+at the head of a fine gulf, with a climate rivalling that of Ajaccio.
+Most of the timber from the forests of Valdoniello and Perticato is
+shipped here. For Porto to Ponte Francardo, see p. 18.
+
+  The road from Porto to La Piana (map, p. 20) affords a delightful
+  drive, and exhibits good engineering. It is cut for a considerable
+  distance through the rocks and cliffs and tall jagged peaks, like
+  cypresses turned into stone, standing on the edge of this savage
+  coast, parts of which are truly splendid. As the ascent is slowly
+  continued, charming views disclose themselves, and on each side of
+  the road the eye discerns some new beauty to dwell upon. At the Col
+  Geneparo, to the right are the ruins of the castle of the Colonnas
+  di Leca, rising boldly above the sea and surrounded and protected by
+  magnificent natural battlements and pinnacles. Six miles from Porto,
+  after having passed the Cols of Geneparo and Mezzano, both about
+  1250 feet, the traveller reaches
+
+[Headnote: LA PIANA.]
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   AJACCIO
+
+{58}{44}
+LA PIANA, 1587 feet, pop. 1280. _Inn:_ H. France. Delightfully situated,
+with a fine sea-view. From the Col San Martino, 1 m. from La Piana and
+1630 feet above the sea, the landscape undergoes a rapid change. The
+magnificent rocks become parched and arid and the grass as yellow as the
+soil where it tries to grow.
+
+[Headnote: CARGÉSÉ.]
+
+{70}{32}
+CARGÉSÉ, pop. 1100. _Inn:_ H. de Voyageurs. A large village at the foot
+of a hill which slopes down to the sea. It was founded by a colony of
+730 Greeks, who, fleeing from the oppression of the Turks, arrived and
+settled here, by the permission of the Genoese, in March 1676. For
+having refused to aid Paoli in 1755 against the Genoese their villages
+were burnt to the ground, and they themselves had to seek refuge in
+Ajaccio. After the cession of Corsica to the French in 1769 M. de
+Marboeuf had the village and church of Cargese built for the colonists,
+when they all returned. Greek is still spoken in the village, and it has
+a Greek as well as a Romanist priest.
+
+[Headnote: SAGONA.]
+
+{79}{23}
+SAGONA, pop. 100. The port of Vico. It contains a few houses, one of
+which is the inn, where beds, bread, eggs, coffee and wine can be had.
+On the beach are generally large logs brought down from the forests for
+shipment. Junction with road to Vico 9¼ miles E. (see p. 23), and also
+with the road extending 19 miles E. to the forest of Aïtone, passing by
+the Col Vico, 7½ m., 1607 ft.; Poggio, 12½ m.; the Col Sevi, 3612 ft.,
+13¼ m.; Cristinacce, 16½ m.; and the Col Lacciola, 3040 ft. in the
+forest. Five and a half miles from Sagona are the cold sulphurous
+springs of Caldanella; efficacious as a tonic.
+
+{87½}{14½}
+CALCATOGGIO, pop. 670. A poor village on a hill above the road. From
+this the diligence shortly after commences the ascent of the Col
+Sebastien, 1344 feet, 12 miles from Ajaccio. After the Col Sebastien,
+the road having passed over the Col Staggiola, 930 feet, within a short
+distance of Appietto, situated on a hill; reaches
+
+AJACCIO, 102 miles south-west from Calvi.
+
+
+Porto to the Ponte Francardo.
+
+50 miles north-east. Map, p. 20.
+
+  This important forest road traverses the region of the highest
+  mountains and of the greatest forests, passes through Albertacce,
+  and by the other villages of the Canton of Calacuccia, and then
+  proceeds to Francardo by the defile of the Golo.
+
+  Porto to Evisa, 13¾ m., by an excellent carriage road wending
+  through most picturesque mountain scenery. The road, after following
+  the course of the Porto, crosses the stream Onda, ascends the ravine
+  of the Cario, which it crosses 3 m. from Porto under the Capo
+  Polmonaccia, 5627 ft. It now winds its way round little valleys into
+  the narrow gorge of the Porto between dark red cliffs crowned with
+  pinnacles. Nine m. from Porto is the ramification of the mule-path
+  to Chidazzo, and ½ m. farther the ramification to Marignano. The
+  road, after passing the chapelle S. Cyprien, enters Evisa, pop.
+  1000; _Inn:_ *H. Carrara; 2770 ft., on a high promontory projecting
+  in the centre of a mountain-girt basin from the central range
+  between two deep gulfs hollowed out to a depth of 2000 ft. Behind it
+  rise pine forests to a broad mountain crest, the pass of the Niolo.
+
+  Evisa is admirably situated for excursions. A difficult winding path
+  leads in 2½ hours down to the great walls of the dark granite ravine
+  called the Spelunca, at the confluence of the Aïtone with the Porto.
+  Rambles and drives into the forest of Aïtone, from which
+  unfortunately the old stately pines have disappeared.
+
+  Evisa to Albertacce, 18 m. E. The road traverses the forest of
+  Aïtone with its vigorous beeches and young pines (_Pinus laricio_),
+  whose stems are clear of branches from 80 to 100 ft. It is watered
+  by the Porto and numerous brawling streams; which rush down steep
+  ravines covered with moss and ferns. In the forest, 3 m. from Evisa,
+  by this road, is the Maison forestière d'Aïtone, where those
+  provided with introductions, see p. 41, will find pleasant
+  headquarters for grand excursions and fishing and botanical
+  expeditions. 1¼ m. farther is the house of the road menders
+  (Cantonniers) of Tagnone; where lodging can also be had.
+
+  The road having made several detours to get round the heads of
+  ravines, ascends the Col de Vergio 4803 ft. on the great mountain
+  chain separating the valley of the Golo from the valley of the
+  Porto. About 230 ft. above the Col on the Cricche ridge, a little to
+  the W., is an admirable view of Mt. Tafonato, 7687 ft., almost due
+  N., with a strange natural tunnel through the summit. From Mt.
+  Cuculla, 6733 ft., nearly 1¾ hours W. from the Col is a still better
+  view of Tafonato, and besides a sight of Mt. Cinto, the valley of
+  the Golo and the mountain range of Monte Rotondo. A little beyond
+  the summit of the Col is the Maison de Cantonniers de Castellaccio,
+  whence there is a good view of the forest of Valdoniello, 11,483
+  acres, containing besides many large pines very fine specimens of
+  beeches, birches and alders. The felling of the trees in this forest
+  commenced in 1863.
+
+  After arriving at the Maison forestière de Sciattarina 10½ m. from
+  Evisa, the road passes by some of the finest trees, and descends
+  into the valley of the Golo; which has its source in a ravine
+  between Mts. Tafonato and Paglia-Orba.
+
+  Four and a half miles farther is the Maison forestière de Popaja,
+  3468 ft., 15 m. from Evisa and 3 m. from Albertacce. Either this
+  house or the former, make good quarters for exploring the forest.
+
+  Two miles farther is the Ponte Alto, 2740 ft.; where the road
+  crosses the Golo and enters the pastoral country of the Niolo; now
+  called the canton of Calacuccia, comprehending the villages of
+  Albertacce, Calacuccia, Corscia, Lozzi, and Casamaccioli.
+
+  From near the bridge a mule path of 1¾ m. ascends to Casamaccioli,
+  2780 ft., pop. 550; whence the continuation leads in 7 hours to
+  Corté by the Bocca la Croce, the Melo forest, and the valley of the
+  Tavignano.
+
+[Headnote: ALBERTACCE.--MONTE CINTO.]
+
+  Albertacce, 18 m. from Evisa, 2845 ft., pop. 1000, a dirty village
+  amidst chestnut and walnut trees; where a good deal of coarse linen
+  and Corsican cloth is woven. It is one of the places whence the
+  ascent is made of Monte Cinto, 8892 ft., in 7 hours, and in about 6
+  for the descent. The path ascends by Calasima, 3610 ft., to the
+  height of 5251 ft. After this the course extends almost horizontally
+  in a western direction across ridges, ascending by gradations more
+  or less fatiguing.
+
+  When about 7720 ft., and having climbed nearly 6 hours, a cave is
+  passed where shelter can be had. The remainder of the ascent is
+  comparatively easy. The view is grand, Monte Falo, 8363 ft., being
+  the most prominent object. The ascent cannot be made till the
+  beginning of summer on account of the snow.
+
+[Headnote: LAKE NINO.]
+
+  To Lake Nino, 5598 ft., the source of the Tavignano in 5 hours.
+  From the lake a mule path chiefly by the left bank of the Tavignano,
+  leads in 6½ hours to Corté, through magnificent forests.
+
+  Around the lake are some shepherds huts; where rest and refreshment
+  can be had, but no further supply of food can be counted on between
+  the lake and Corté. The lake, full of fish, lies in a hollow between
+  high mountains, the highest being Mt. Retto, 6592 at the western
+  end.
+
+  Albertacce to Ponte Francardo, 18 m. N.E. The road follows the
+  Golo. To the left, a road 1¼ m., leads up to Lozzi, pop. 1050. 2½ m.
+  from Albertacce is Calacuccia, 2779 ft. pop. 860, and 2 m. farther,
+  another byeroad ascends to Corscia, 2913 ft., pop. 1000, about 5
+  hours walk S. from Asco, whence also Mt. Cinto may be ascended by
+  the valley of the Asco called also Stranciacone. Asco is 5 hours
+  from Olmi Capella by the Stranciacone, its affluent the Tassinella,
+  and the Col de Petrella, 6440 ft., to the S. of Mt. Corona, 7032 ft.
+
+  Near the chapel of S. Pancrazio, 2786 ft., 4 m. from Albertacce is
+  the commencement of the Scala di Santa Regina, as this part of road
+  is called, cut in the face of perpendicular cliffs rising from the
+  bed of the Golo. About half way are the small chapel and inn of
+  Santa Regina, and the cave which in former times used to be the
+  stronghold of robbers.
+
+  Thirteen miles from Albertacce is the Pont du Diable, 1083 ft.,
+  where four roads meet. The road southwards or to the right leads to
+  Corté, 7 m. S. by Castirla and Soveria, and the Col of Oninanda,
+  2155 ft., between cliffs rising 1720 ft. above it.
+
+[Headnote: ASCO.]
+
+  The road leading northwards extends to the beautiful highway between
+  Ponte alla Leccia and Calvi; by Castiglione 3¼ m., pop. 550, at the
+  foot of Mt. Traunato, 7186 ft., Popolasca, 7 m., pop. 200, with
+  beautiful red granite pinnacles, and Moltifao 12 m., pop. 1050, with
+  Inn, consisting of a group of villages, clustered on the slopes of
+  the ridge which separate the valley of the Tartagine from the Asco.
+  The byeroad S.W. from Moltifao leads up the highly picturesque
+  valley of the Asco, with magnificent forest trees, to the village of
+  Asco, pop. 950, a group of hamlets seldom visited, although one of
+  the best points from which to make the ascent of Mt. Cinto.
+
+  [Headnote: PONTE FRANCARDO.]
+
+  The road leading 5 m. N.E. by the Golo extends to the Ponte
+  Francardo, where the rail may be taken. See p. 9 and General Map.
+
+
+Calvi to Corté or to Bastia.
+
+See General Map.
+
+  By Ponte alla Leccia. The finest part of the road is between Calvi
+  and the Col Colombano. "If I were to permit myself to dwell in
+  detail on the exquisite variety and charm of the drive, especially
+  after quitting the _route forestière_ a little E. of the hamlet of
+  Palasca, I should wander far from the main purpose of this paper.
+  Valery, Gregorovius, Lear and others have done justice to its
+  wonderful beauty, and the last truly remarks that 'those who visit
+  Corsica without going through upper Balagne remain ignorant of one
+  of its finest divisions,' adding, 'no description can exaggerate the
+  beauty of this remarkable tract of mountain background and deep
+  valley, which for richness of foreground, cheerful fertility and
+  elegance of distance may compete with most Italian landscapes.' The
+  district is densely peopled--at least twelve large villages are
+  situated on the road itself between Belgodere and Lumio, a distance
+  of 21 miles--and picturesque hamlets with lofty campanili perch high
+  up on the mountain slopes or crown the summits of the lower hills,
+  whilst everywhere there is the richest culture and most varied
+  produce, and the charm of the picture is completed by continually
+  varying views over 'bowery hollows crowned with summer sea.'"--F. F.
+  Tuckett, Alpine Club.
+
+[Headnote: THE OLIVE TREE.]
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   CORTÉ
+
+{ }{61}
+CALVI. The road skirts the coast as far as Lumio, 6 m. from Calvi,
+whence it commences to ascend gradually by an admirably engineered road
+round the undulations of olive-clad mountains, disclosing at every turn
+a different view of the fertile valley of Balagna, extending from the
+distant mountains to the blue waters of the Mediterranean. It is said
+that there is no district throughout the whole of Italy where the olive
+attains such a size as in this valley. Of the tree there are three
+varieties, the Sabine (_Sabinacci_), the Saracen (_Saraceni_), and the
+Genoese (_Genovesi_), the most common of all, and is ascribed to the
+Genoese, who during the government of Agostino Doria compelled the
+Corsicans to plant olives in great numbers.
+
+[Map: Corsica Western Central Region]
+
+After passing the picturesquely situated village of Lavatoggio, 9 m.;
+the Col Cesario, 1200 ft., 10½ m.; the villages of Feliceto, inn, pop.
+640, 16¼ m.; Castor, 24 m.; Speloncato; Ville di Paraso, pop. 750;
+Occhiatana, and many more perched on the surrounding mountain tops, or
+nestling in nooks among olive and chestnut trees, the diligence arrives
+at
+
+[Headnote: BELGODERE.]
+
+{26¾}{34¼}
+BELGODERE, 1017 feet, pop. 950, commanding the finest view of this
+beautiful valley, its orchards, fields and mountains undulating towards
+the blue sea. The diligence just remains long enough to give time to run
+through the gate and up the narrow dirty street to the top of the rock
+on which the houses are clustered, and there to take a rapid glance at
+the lovely scene around and underneath. After the gate, the diligence
+halts at the post-office, and then moves on a few yards towards the
+stables, where the horses are changed.
+
+FOREST ROAD FROM BELGODERE TO THE FOREST OF TARTAGINE.
+
+[Headnote: CAPELLA.--TARTAGINE FOREST.]
+
+  From Belgodere, Route Forestière, No. 3, leads down to the small
+  port of Losari, 6 miles N. from Belgodere and 4½ E. from the Ile
+  Rousse. A continuation of the same route southward extends to the
+  bridge across the Tartagine, 2355 feet, 25 miles from the Ile
+  Rousse, in the great forest of Tartagine. It passes the Bocca
+  Campana, 2782 feet, 3¼ miles from Belgodere; the Bocca Croce, 3045
+  feet, the culminating part of the road, 7 miles from Belgodere; and
+  2½ miles farther, the hamlets of Olmi and Capella, 9 miles from
+  Speloncato; with ever-varying mountain and village scenes among
+  great forests; 20 m. from Belgodere is the Pont Tartagine in the
+  forest of that name. The forest of Tartagine, enclosed within the
+  high crests of the Capo Dente 6667 ft. on the west, and of Mt. Padro
+  on the east, measures 7166 acres, and contains principally the
+  _Pinus laricio_ and the _P. pinaster_, intermingled with ilexes or
+  evergreen oaks (p. 41).
+
+  "Olmi-Capella 2723 ft. is in an open airy situation, commanding fine
+  views of the mountains to the S. and S.W., and protected to some
+  extent on the N. and N.W. by the ridge which sweeps round to the
+  head of the Tartagine valley. This ridge, though in the
+  neighbourhood of the village only about 1000 ft. above the sloping
+  plateau on which it is built, rises to the W. into the peaks of
+  Monte Tolo 4370 ft., Monte San Parteo 5512 ft., Monte Cineraggia
+  5286 ft., Monte Grosso 6227 ft., Punta Radiche 6595 ft., Capo al
+  Dente 6667 ft., and Monte Corona 7031 ft. The N. slope of this ridge
+  is very steep, and commands most magnificent views of the Haute
+  Balagne and the sea beyond, whilst it is traversed by numerous
+  passes which afford charming scenery. Besides the _route
+  forestière_, which crosses the Col de Bocca Croce 3048 ft., and by
+  which the timber of the forest of Tartagine is conveyed to Ile
+  Rousse for shipment, several mule-paths connect Olmi Capella much
+  more directly with Ville and Speloncato by the Bocca Battaglia 3550
+  ft., and Bocca Croce d'Ovo 3629 feet; with Feliceto by the Bocca
+  Pianile 5033 ft.; with Zilia and Calvi by the Bocca di Cineraggia
+  4698 ft.; with Calenzana by the Bocca Bianca 6155 ft., with
+  Calenzana or the Val Ficarella by the Bocca di Tartagine 6093 ft.;
+  and with the head of the valley of Asco by the Bocca de l'Ondella
+  6086 ft."--F. F. Tuckett, Alpine Club.
+
+[Headnote: PALASCA.]
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   CORTÉ
+
+{28¾}{32¼}
+PALASCA, pop. 550. Situated lower down than the high road and the last
+village on this side of the
+
+{31½}{29½}
+COL DE SAN COLOMBANO, 2625 feet above the sea. The view though more vast
+is less distinct, presenting a succession of mountain-tops, between
+which are dimly seen valleys with the sea in the distance. The diligence
+now descends into the narrow, rocky vale of the Navaccia, an affluent of
+the Tartagine, which enters the Golo a little above the important bridge
+called the
+
+[Headnote: PONTE ALLA LECCIA.]
+
+{46¾}{14¼}
+PONTE ALLA LECCIA. Inn at station. Here take rail for Corté (see p. 8)
+or for Bastia, 29 miles N.E. (see p. 10). The Ponte Nuovo is distinctly
+seen from the station. The two small houses near the railway bridge, on
+the S. side of the Golo, were Paoli's headquarters during the battle
+(see pp. 9 and 39).
+
+{61}
+CORTÉ, see page 8.
+
+
+Ajaccio to Vico and Evisa.
+
+33 miles north; time 7 to 8 hours; fare 4 frs.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   VICO
+
+{ }{33}
+AJACCIO. At about two miles from the town the diligence commences the
+ascent of the low Col of Stileto, passing the aqueduct for the Gravona
+water. On the left hand are the granite quarries whence the large slabs
+were taken for the monument to Napoleon in the Place d'Armes, as well as
+the long blocks for the pillars of the Marseilles cathedral. To the
+right are the village of Appietto, pop. 700, on a hill and the great
+cliff Monte Gozzi, 656 feet high.
+
+{12}{21}
+Summit of the COL ST. SEBASTIEN, 1344 feet above the sea, commanding a
+lovely prospect of the Bays of Liscia, Sagona and Cargésé, and of the
+valley of Cinarca, with its villages and vineyards. At the foot of the
+Col is a small inn called Le Repos des Voyageurs, where bread and wine
+and capital sea-urchins can be had. They are eaten raw, and taken out of
+the shell by cutting it in two horizontally.
+
+{23}{10}
+SAGONA, junction with road to Calvi, 79 miles N. (see p. 17).
+
+{31}{2}
+Summit of the COL ST. ANTOINE, 1488 feet. Near the top, at some distance
+to the left, is the village of Balogna, pop. 600, while in front is seen
+the splendid range of the Monte Rotondo, among which the most
+conspicuous is La Sposata, at the head of wooded valleys.
+
+The road to the left or N. leads to Evisa, 18 miles from Vico, pop.
+1000, and 2770 feet above the sea. _Hotel:_ Carrara, a comfortable
+house, where vehicles may be hired. Evisa is charmingly situated on the
+confines of the forest of Aïtone, containing 3,749 acres. Beyond Aïtone,
+or 11 miles from Evisa, is the large forest of Valdoniello, 11,483
+acres. These forests, instead of extending monotonously on large plains,
+plunge into deep valleys, or creep up the sides of high mountains.
+
+From Evisa descend to Porto (see p. 18).
+
+[Headnote: VICO.]
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   VICO
+
+{33}
+VICO, pop. 2020. _Inns:_ France, where the diligence stops; Voyageurs;
+Univers. Most picturesquely situated in the valley of the Liamone,
+surrounded by steep mountains covered with apple, peach, chestnut,
+walnut, olive and oak trees. On the opposite side of the valley is the
+large whitewashed convent of St. Francis, with terraced garden shaded by
+tall magnolias, beautifully placed on a thickly-wooded bank, above which
+is seen the small hamlet of Nessa. It is a favourite summer resort of
+the _élite_ of Ajaccio, who revel here on carpets of cyclamen, violets,
+and a profusion of other wild flowers, in the shade of the dense foliage
+of the chestnut groves around.
+
+[Headnote: BATHS OF GUAGNO.]
+
+  Seven and a half miles from Vico up the wooded vale of the Liamone
+  and by the Bridges of Silvani and Belfiori, the village of Murzo and
+  the Col de Sorro, are the Baths of Guagno, with hot, sulphurous
+  springs, resembling in their properties those of Bareges in the
+  Pyrenees (see Black's _South France_). From May to September they
+  are much frequented, when a coach runs between Vico and Guagno.
+  Time, 2 hours; fare, 3 frs. Coaches can be hired at Vico for Evisa.
+  Charge, 10 frs.
+
+
+Ajaccio to Sartène.
+
+53 m. S. by diligence, over a hilly road; 13 hrs.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   SARTÈNE
+
+{ }{53}
+AJACCIO. The most comfortable way to go to Sartène is to take the
+steamer to Propriano, only 8 miles N. from Sartène, and there to await
+the daily coach. The diligence from Ajaccio, after having crossed the
+rivers Gravona, Prunelli, Agnone, Vergajolo and Margone, and the pass of
+Campolaccio, 843 feet, arrives at
+
+[Headnote: CAURO.]
+
+{12½}{40½}
+CAURO or CAVRO, 1180 ft. _Inn._ Coach to Bastelica. Pop. 700. A
+straggling mountain village, commanding extensive views.
+
+
+Cauro to Bastelica.
+
+  12 m. northwards by "Courrier" by a charming forest road, which
+  after crossing the Else at the Pont Zipitoli, 7 m. from Cauro,
+  enters the defile of the Prunelli at the Col de Menta, about 2 m.
+  from Bastelica.
+
+  The road from Cauro crosses the Col Torro, 1394 ft., 1½ m. Four
+  miles, the col and bridge S. Alberto, 1710 ft. whence a road
+  ramifies 7½ m. S. to S. Maria-Siché and Grossetto. On the right side
+  of the road a waterfall descends from the crest of the Usciolo.
+  Large oaks and chestnut trees with ilexes and pines are now seen.
+  7 m. here a short branch road leads to a maison forestière surrounded
+  by large trees, at the foot of Mt. Mantelluccio, 5515 ft. A little
+  farther a road ramifies 4½ m. by the wild and beautiful valley of
+  the Else into the forest of Ponteniello, and where it ends a mule
+  path commences to Frasseto, pop. 750, on the coach road between
+  Ajaccio and the baths of Guitera. 7½ m. the Zipitoli bridge across
+  the Else, a short way above its junction with the Prunelli. On the
+  right side of the river is the Maison de Cantonniers of Zipitoli.
+
+  8 m. The Col Crichetto, 2380 ft., and nearly 3 m. farther the Col
+  Menta, 2458 ft., from which the road descends to the Prunelli and
+  continues by its banks to
+
+[Headnote: DOMINICACCI.]
+
+  Bastelica, pop. 4000, inn, 2400 ft., consisting of a group of
+  hamlets, none of which bears the name of Bastelica. Sampiero was
+  born in the one called Dominicacci, between Stazzona and Costa, at
+  the end of the 15th cent., and killed by the Ornanos in the defile
+  of the Prunelli on the 17th January 1567. The house which stands on
+  the site of the one he lived in bears an epitaph to his memory,
+  placed by "William Wyse, Irish Roman Catholic, nephew of Napoleon
+  the Great."
+
+[Headnote: MT. RENOSO.]
+
+  Among the many pleasant excursions is the ascent of Mt. Renoso, 7733
+  ft., 5½ hrs. N.E.
+
+  In summer men go up every day with mules for frozen snow. There are
+  lakes on the south and east sides of the mountain, and some fine
+  velvety swards. Map, p. 27.
+
+Five miles beyond Cauro, the Sartène road attains the summit of the Col
+St. Georges, 2500 ft., commanding a fine prospect of the surrounding
+country, and afterwards descends to the valley of Ornano, the native
+land of Vanina, traversed by the Taravo.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   SARTÈNE
+
+{20}{33}
+APA, whence a Route Departamentale extends 18 m. N.E. to the baths of
+Guitera and Zicavo. Maps, pp. 1 and 27.
+
+
+AJACCIO TO ZICAVO AND THE BATHS OF GUITERA.
+
+[Headnote: BATHS OF GUITERA.]
+
+  8¼ hrs. by coach and 39 m. from Ajaccio by the Apa mill, 1841 ft.,
+  then by the slopes of the Punta del Castello, 2674 ft., through a
+  charming country, to S. Maria-Siché, 2 m. from Apa, inn where
+  coach stops, pop. 800. An old lofty building here of granite, with
+  the remains of towers blackened by age, was the birthplace of the
+  unfortunate Vanina, strangled by Sampiero, p. 39. The ruins of the
+  chateau he built for himself in 1554, after his house had been
+  destroyed, are seen on a hill to the left of the road. Coaches for
+  Ajaccio, Guitera, Zicavo, and Propriano. 4½ m. from Apa at Campo,
+  pop. 390, the road describes a great circuit to get round the head
+  of the defile of the torrent of Frasseto, an affluent of the Taravo.
+  1¼ m. farther is Frasseto, pop. 740. When about 2770 feet high there
+  is, through an opening, a superb view extending to the sea by the
+  valley of the Frasseto. 8 m. from Apa is the Col de Granace, 2713
+  ft., with a splendid view. Zecavo, 10 m., 2238 ft., pop. 510, on an
+  affluent of the Taravo. Then rounding the buttresses of the Sposata,
+  3288 ft., enter the village of Corrano, 12 m., pop. 470, in a lovely
+  situation. 14½ m. from Apa and 34½ from Ajaccio are the hot
+  sulphurous springs of Guitera, with hotel, 1437 ft., on the right
+  bank of the Taravo, an excellent trout stream. Coach to and from
+  Ajaccio during the season, from May to September. Pleasantly
+  situated among cork oaks and banks covered with the Osmunda fern.
+  The road from the Baths of Guitera up to Zicavo, 3½ m., follows for
+  about 1 m. the Taravo till its union with the torrent from Mt.
+  Coscione, whence it climbs up through the gorge to
+
+[Headnote: ZICAVO.--MT. INCUDINE.]
+
+  Zicavo, pop. 1500, hotel, 2385 ft., charmingly situated,
+  overlooking the valley of the Taravo, 38 m. by coach from Ajaccio.
+  From Zicavo the ascent is made of Monte Incudine, 7008 ft., in 6
+  hrs. Mules can be employed to within ½ hr. of summit. Although not
+  difficult, guide and mule are advisable, if for nothing else than to
+  assist in fording the streams. After having passed the chapel of S.
+  Roch, ascend a steep mule path, right, among the largest and best
+  formed chestnut trees in the island, then rounding Mt. Buchino, 3623
+  ft., among ilexes, and Mt. Occhiato, 5749 ft., covered with beech
+  trees, ascend southwards by a wooded ravine between great rocks.
+  Between 2 and 3 hrs. the Pastures of the plain of Coscione, with
+  many shepherds' huts, are reached, whence Mt. Incudine is seen.
+  After leaving this the path becomes very bad, over loose stones and
+  across troublesome torrents. These are succeeded by an annoying
+  thick coppice of alders, and then the Col de Cheralba, 6345 ft., is
+  ascended, in about 5½ hrs. from starting. The mules are left here,
+  and the ascent is made by the western flank, taking care to make the
+  guide understand that the highest peak is wanted, and not the Rocher
+  de l'Incudine. "The view is probably the most beautiful in
+  Corsica--a vast panorama full of variety. Steep pine clad hills sink
+  abruptly into the eastern sea; glens open southward on a rich
+  glowing valley; the blue depths of the bays are fringed with an
+  edging of white sand and green water. The great granite aiguilles of
+  the forest of Bavella, a strange array of horns and pinnacles, run
+  across the foreground; to the left the long fiord of Porto Vecchio
+  stretches far into the land; while in the centre of the picture are
+  spread out the broad Straits of Bonifacio, studded with pale isles
+  and islets. On the left is Caprera, the home of the liberator of the
+  Two Sicilies. [Headnote: NELSON.] The one beside it, Maddalena, is
+  linked with even greater memories--Nelson and Napoleon. Under its
+  lee, in a bay which Nelson christened 'Agincourt Sound,' the British
+  fleet lay for months before the battle of the Nile, watching for the
+  French squadron sheltered behind the guns of Toulon. Two silver
+  candlesticks on the altar of the village church record Nelson's
+  gratitude for the friendly services of the inhabitants. It was in
+  attacking this same village that Napoleon, in 1793, first saw fire.
+  For mountain views the Alpine clubman is spoilt, but for sea views,
+  and they are not less beautiful, he must go far, perhaps as far as
+  Greece, to find such another."--D. F. Freshfield, Alpine Club. See
+  map on fly-leaf.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   SARTÈNE
+
+{21}{32}
+GROSSETO, 1476 feet, pop. 600; 4½ hours by diligence from Ajaccio.
+  A little beyond the inn is the church, sheltered by large ilex
+  trees, which grow to a great height in this neighbourhood.
+
+{30}{23}
+BICCHISANO, 350 feet, pop. 1800, where the passengers dine.
+  The diligence then passes the villages of Petreto and Cassalabriva,
+  pop. 300, and shortly afterwards reaches the summit of the Col
+  Celaccia, 1910 feet, about 2½ m. E. from Sollacaro, pop. 800, where
+  Boswell visited Paoli. Sollacaro is not on the highroad.
+
+[Headnote: OLMETO.]
+
+{39}{14}
+OLMETO, pop. 1650, hotel. On a hill, with an extensive view.
+  In the neighbourhood, on Monte Buttareto, are the ruins of the
+  castle of Arrigo della Rocca. No more beautiful sight than that of
+  Olmeto can be pictured. Immediately below the town the ground dips
+  steeply down, covered with corn or turf; or in terraces of vineyard,
+  varied with large groups of fine olive trees stretching down to the
+  shore. Above the village a vast growth of vegetation climbs the
+  heights. Among huge masses of granite are tangles of every shrub the
+  island produces, the wild olive or oleaster being one of the most
+  elegant; while every part of the heights close to the town abounds
+  with little picture subjects, with a clear blue sky for a
+  background.
+
+  The road now descends to the coast, and after crossing the Baracci,
+  near the hot sulphurous mineral baths of Baracci, arrives at
+
+[Headnote: PROPRIANO.]
+
+{44½}{8½}
+PROPRIANO, pop. 1000. H. France.
+  Every Saturday a steamer arrives from Ajaccio, and returns on the
+  Monday morning. Another steamer twice weekly between this and
+  Ajaccio. Near the bridge over the Rizzanèse, are the two Celtic
+  monuments called the Stazione del' Diavolo.
+
+PROPRIANO TO SOLENZARA.
+
+  Two and a half miles beyond the bridge commences the Route
+  Forestière, No. 4, leading to Solenzara, 42½ m. N.E. This road
+  ascends by the Rizzanese to S. Lucia di Tallano, whence eastward to
+  Levie, 1970 ft.; and thence Zonza, 2586 ft. The road afterwards
+  ascends N.E. by a picturesque ravine to the Col Bavella, 3965 ft.;
+  whence after descending to the Maison Cantonniere, 1476 ft., it
+  crosses the Col Larone, 2013; whence it descends by a winding road
+  partly by the banks of the Fiumicello and partly by the R. Solenzara
+  to Solenzara (see p. 36).
+
+[Map: Corsica, Central Region]
+
+Shortly after crossing the Rizzanese the diligence commences the long
+ascent to Sartène, disclosing views of the great valley below and of the
+splendid snowy heights of the long range of mountains opposite,
+terminating in the lofty regions of the great Monte Incudine, 7008 ft.
+
+[Headnote: SARTÈNE.]
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   SARTÈNE
+
+{53}
+SARTÈNE, 1000 feet; pop. 6010; _Inns:_ Commerce: Univers.
+  Coaches daily to and from Ajaccio, Bonifacio and Santa Lucia di
+  Tallano. Old Sartène is a town of narrow streets approached by a
+  fine bridge, whence the whole valley is seen down to the Gulf of
+  Valinco. It still retains some towers and parts of the walls erected
+  in the 16th century. The houses are built of rough, dark gray
+  granite, with steep stone steps leading up to the main entrance, and
+  odd Italian chimneys, some in the shape of pillars with curious
+  capitals, others in the form of towers or obelisks. The houses
+  bordering the Nouvello Traverse and the streets leading into the
+  "Place" form the new town.
+
+
+Sartène to Corté by Vivario,
+
+up the centre of the island. Maps, pp. 1 and 27.
+
+  This grand mountain road, No. 196 bis, extends from Sartène,
+  73 m. N. to the Ajaccio and Corté road, which it joins at the 60
+  kilometres-stone, on the Col Serra, ½ mile from Vivario. All the
+  diligences between Ajaccio and Corté halt at the inn of Vivario
+  (p. 8).
+
+[Headnote: S. LUCIA DI TALLANO.]
+
+After leaving Sartène the road crosses the Fiumicicoli and ascends the
+valley of the Rizzanese to Loreto, 12 m., and Cargiaca 15 m. N. from
+Sartène 1302 ft.; grand view. Near Loreto is S. Lucia di Tallano, 1270
+ft., with a quarry of a beautiful amphibole, a variety of hornblende.
+The ground colour is grayish blue sprinkled with white and margined with
+black spots (see p. 37).
+
+[Headnote: ZICAVO.]
+
+From Cargiaca the road enters the valley of the Coscione and ascends
+through the ilex forest of Taca amidst towering mountains and vertical
+cliffs by the villages of Zerubia and Aullene, 2736 ft., pop. 1100; inn;
+21 m. N. from Sartène. It now crosses the Coscione, 3492 ft., then the
+Col Vaccia, 3898 ft., and descends by the Col d'Alisandri, 3426 ft., to
+Zicavo, 2445 ft., with an inn, 17 m. from Aullene, 3½ m. E. from the
+baths of Guitera, 38 m. N. from Sartène and 37 m. S. from Vivario.
+
+From the Bocca Tinzole a road ramifies N.W. to Olivese 1460 ft., pop.
+700, in the valley of the Taravo, 7 m. from Guitera by a beautiful
+road.
+
+From Zicavo the road crosses the Col San Francesco, 1969 ft., to
+Cozzano, 40 m., pop. 900, and enters the valley of the Taravo, which it
+ascends by the east bank between two great mountain chains, the
+culminating point of the western chain being Mt. Don Giovanni 6405 ft.,
+and that of the eastern Pointe Capella 6706 ft.
+
+Three and a quarter miles up the valley from Cozzano a wheel road leads
+1½ m. E. to the Maison Forestière of St. Antoine, whence a mule path by
+the Col de Rapara, 5557 ft., extends to Isolaccio and the hot baths of
+Pietrapola, p. 8, by a picturesque road through a beautiful part of the
+forest.
+
+Four and a half miles above Cozzano is the Col Scrivano, 2959 ft.,
+whence a mule path leads across the valley to Palneca, pop. 1050, on the
+wooded slopes of Mt. Pietra Cinta, 4958 ft.
+
+A little below the summit of the Col is the Maison de Cantonniers de
+Scrivano.
+
+Nine and a half miles N. from Zicavo is the bridge Argentuccia, fronting
+a grand semi-circle of mountains covered with noble trees. This is the
+commencement of the real Verde forest.
+
+Eleven and three quarter miles from Zicavo is the Maison de Cantonniers
+de Ghiraldino, 3936 ft., 49 m. N. from Sartène, 2 m. S. from the Col
+Verde and 5 m. S. from the House of Refuge of Marmano. A little beyond
+the house a wheel road, left, descends into one of the finest parts of
+the Verde forest.
+
+[Headnote: COL VERDE.]
+
+Thirteen and three quarter miles from Zicavo and 51 m. from Sartène is
+the Col Verde, 4290 ft., with, nearly a mile distant, the Maison de
+Cantonniers de Marmano. Below is the forest of Marmano, with its best
+trees cut down, and in the neighbourhood the sources of the rivers
+Taravo, 5678 ft., at the Col Tisina, of the Fium Orbo, 3783 ft. under a
+mountain a little to the N. of the Col Verde, and of the Prunelli, 4790
+ft., among a group of high mountains to the W. The Vecchio rises from
+the springs on Mt. Oro.
+
+[Headnote: REFUGE DE MARMANO.]
+
+Seventeen miles from Zicavo and 54 m. from Sartène is the Refuge de
+Marmano, 3182 ft., beautifully situated. Here was formerly the summer
+station of the Casabianda penitentiary. The escaped criminals committed
+such outrages that the government at the repeated petitioning of the
+shepherds were obliged to withdraw it. Finally Casabianda was abandoned
+also, and the prisoners removed to the neighbourhood of Ajaccio, where
+they could be well looked after.
+
+Food and lodging may be obtained at the Maison Forestière, or 1¼ m.
+farther at the Maison de Cantonniers de Canareccia, 2760 ft., in the
+rocky defile of the Fium Orbo. Between this and Ghisoni, 6 m., 3 bridges
+and 2 low Cols are crossed. At the second bridge, the Pont de Casso,
+4½ m. from Ghisoni, are seen the great pinnacles or needles and lofty
+cliffs of Albuccia Point or Kyrie Eleison, 4935 ft.
+
+From the Canaraccia the road winds its way northward along the flanks of
+mountains sloping down to the Orbo, which it leaves shortly before
+reaching
+
+[Headnote: GHISONI.--COL SORBA.]
+
+Ghisoni, pop. 1740, 2160 ft., 62 m. N. from Sartène, 12 m. S. from
+Vivario, 8 m. N. from the House of Refuge, and 24 m. N. from Zicavo.
+Four m. N. from Ghisoni the road crosses the Col Scozzolatojo, 3916 ft.,
+and 2 m. farther the Col Sorba, 4310 ft., 6 m. S. from Vivario, see p.
+8. The descent from the Col Sorba into Vivario is very striking. It is
+effected by excessively sharp zigzags through a noble pine forest.
+Between the branches tower the bold forms of Monte d'Oro, Monte Rotondo,
+and, in the distance, behind the uplands of Corté, the crags of Monte
+Traunato.
+
+The best resting-places on this road are Zicavo, 39 m. S.E. from
+Ajaccio, from which it is approached by a diligence; and the pleasant
+village of Ghisoni, where there is a very fair inn. At Vivario there is
+the Hotel Voyageurs. Guides and carriages should be hired either at
+Sartène or Vivario, 20 frs. per day.
+
+
+Ghisoni to Ghisonaccia.
+
+18 m. S.E. Maps, pp. 1 and 27.
+
+  By the Forest road No. 5, cut for nearly 11 m. in the face of the
+  steep cliffs which enclose the Orbo. As this road in all the
+  dangerous parts is hardly 11 ft. wide, it is necessary to ascertain
+  before starting in a vehicle, the position of the carts conveying
+  the logs, and to arrange accordingly.
+
+  The road descends from Ghisoni to the Pont de Regolo, 2077 ft.,
+  where it crosses the Casapietrone, and then follows the course of
+  the Fium Orbo, crosses the Ruello Bridge 1450 ft., and enters the
+  Salto della Sposata 4½ m. from Ghisoni, where the river flows in a
+  narrow bed between vertical precipices, some more than 1200 ft.
+  high.
+
+[Headnote: L'INZECCA.]
+
+  The road, chiselled out of these cliffs, passes under 3 great
+  portals. From the third is seen, through the great cleft in the rock
+  of Inzecca, the sea at Aleria.
+
+  After this the defile opens up to close again between serpentine
+  cliffs. It then crosses the 2 Ponts de Parabuja and the viaduct de
+  l'Inzecca, and reaches the entrance to the Passage de l'Inzecca,
+  7 m. from Ghisoni, 985 ft. above the sea, where the road is cut
+  through great serpentine rocks. This is the most difficult part for
+  the waggons to pass. Map, p. 27.
+
+  The plain now widens, and 8 m. from Ghisoni a branch road leads to
+  Vezzani.
+
+  Nine and a quarter miles from Ghisoni is the Col S. Antoine, 355 ft.,
+  and 8¾ m. farther is Ghisonaccia, p. 32.
+
+
+Sartène to Bonifacio.
+
+33 miles south-east, by diligence; time, 6 hours.
+
+  miles from SARTÈNE
+  miles to   BONIFACIO
+
+{ }{33}
+SARTÈNE. The road winds its way through great blocks of granite
+scattered on a plain studded with shrubby specimens of the ilex, towards
+the shore of the Golfo di Roccapina, with a fantastically shaped rock
+called il Leone Coronato. East from the gulf the road passes the village
+of Pianottoli, 21 m. from Sartène, almost due south from the singular
+mountain l'Uomo di Cagna, 3980 ft.; then the bridge across the Figari at
+the head of the Gulf of Figari, 23 m.; the Col de la Testa or Scopeto,
+225 ft., 24 m.; and the bridge across the Ventilegni, 27 m. from
+Sartène, and 6 from Bonifacio.
+
+[Headnote: BONIFACIO.]
+
+{33}
+BONIFACIO, pop. 4000. H. du Nord; France in the high town. Diligences
+leave daily for Bastia, Sartène, and Ajaccio. A steamer arrives every
+Saturday from Ajaccio and returns on the Monday. Bonifacio was founded
+in 833 by the Tuscan marquis whose name it bears, to protect this part
+of the island against the piratical incursions of the Saracens. The high
+town is built on the top of a limestone rock rising vertically from the
+sea. The low town occupies one side of the fine natural dock, hemmed in
+by perpendicular cliffs with an opening of only 328 yards towards the
+sea. From the steamboat wharf a broad paved series of steps leads up to
+the high town, entering it through the Porte Vieille. In the old house
+fronting this Porte or gateway, Charles V., in 1541, stayed two days and
+a night on his return from his unsuccessful expedition against Algiers.
+Overtaken by a storm, he had taken refuge in the Gulf of Santa Manza.
+The door of the house, decorated with an arabesque on marble, is in the
+narrow side street. In the Place d'Armes are the church of San Domenico,
+built by the Templars, characterised by its octagonal tower with an
+embrasured termination; and the great tower "Torrione," part of the
+fortifications built by the marquis, and formerly the most important
+part of the citadel. Near this tower is the flight of steps "Redragon,"
+cut in the rock by the Genoese, which descends by 202 steps to the sea.
+The small room over the gateway of the citadel, opposite the house of
+Charles V., was inhabited by Napoleon for nearly eight months. There are
+grand sea-views from the ramparts. The town consists of tall, dingy
+houses, and narrow, steep, and in most cases dirty streets. The
+promenade of Bonifacio is the small covered terrace before the church of
+Santa Maria. Here also is the public cistern.
+
+Of the numerous caves which pierce the base of the rock of Bonifacio,
+the most remarkable one enters from the sea, 214 feet below the Place
+d'Armes, and extends to an unknown distance. It contains a freshwater
+lake, which rises and falls with the tide. A staircase with a vaulted
+roof and consisting of 337 steps leads down to this lake. The water is
+brought up to the surface by a force pump, is perfectly transparent,
+with a slight calcareous taste. In the high town there are 39 private
+and one public cistern, in which the rain water from the roofs is stored
+up. The low town has a well supplied from a stream by an aqueduct. The
+afternoon is the best time to visit the caves. A boat for one or party
+should not cost more than 5 frs. The finest, the Dragonetta, cannot be
+visited when the sea is rough.
+
+On Monte Pertusato (the south extremity of Corsica), 2 miles S.E. from
+Bonifacio, is a lighthouse of the first order, 325 feet above the sea.
+The southern promontory is pierced by a cavern hung with stalactites.
+
+
+Bonifacio to Bastia.
+
+103 miles; diligence to Ghisonaccia, 50 m. N., the rest by rail.
+
+  miles from BONIFACIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{ }{103}
+BONIFACIO. The diligence, after passing the Col Finocchio, 354 feet, 2½
+miles N. from Bonifacio, the Maison Francola, 7 miles, the bridge across
+the Stabiacco, 16 miles, and the Col Mattonara, 17½ miles (whence the
+Route Forestière, No. 11, ascends 14 miles west into the forest of the
+Ospedale), arrives in 3 hours at
+
+[Headnote: PORTO-VECCHIO.]
+
+{27}{76}
+PORTO-VECCHIO, pop. 2740. Hôtel Amis. Surrounded by its old walls, and
+at the head of a beautiful gulf. The surrounding country is fertile, but
+unhealthy during the hot weather, on account of the miasma rising from
+the morasses and lagoons. To the N. of Porto, the mountains still
+approach near to the sea; but beyond Solenzara (where the diligence
+halts) 41½ miles from Bonifacio, they recede and leave free those great
+undulating plains which characterise the eastern coast of
+Corsica--plains almost uninhabited and covered with heaths. From the
+north side of the Travo commences a series of large lakes swarming with
+fish and a kind of cockle. They are separated from the sea by long
+narrow sandbanks, like earthen break-waters. The malaria prevails from
+June to October, but even then only the night should be avoided in
+travelling along this coast. The road after passing by the hamlet of
+Favona, 33 m., arrives at
+
+[Headnote: SOLENZARA.]
+
+{45}{58}
+SOLENZARA. Whence a wheel road extends westwards into the forest of
+  Bavella by the Col Bavella 18½ m. S.W., and the Col Scalella, 22 m.,
+  2982 ft. to Zonza, 24½ m. from Solenzara; 4 m. farther is the
+  village of S. Gavino di Carbini, 2292 ft., and other 2½ m. the
+  village of Levie; 30 m. S.W. from Solenzara, and 10½ from Propriano
+  is S. Lucia de Tallano, on the highroad to Aullene (see p. 27), and
+  for continuation of this road to Propriano see p. 26.
+
+The road to Bastia, after passing the Travo, 44 m., Vicchiseri, 46 m.,
+and Casamozza, 48½ m., arrives at the railway station of
+
+[Headnote: GHISONACCIA.]
+
+{53}{50}
+GHISONACCIA, pop. 850. On the Fium Orbo, 36 m. S.E. from Corté.
+  From this a department road of 4½ m. leads to the hot sulphurous
+  baths of Pietrapola, with a large hotel in a healthy situation.
+
+  From Ghisonaccia a carriage road extends N.W. to the villages of
+  Poggio-di-Nazza, 9½ m., and Lugo-di-Nazza, 11½ m. From Ghisonaccia
+  railway station a forest road extends 18 m. N.W. to Ghisoni, where
+  it joins the high road between Sartène and Vivario (p. 29). The
+  southern prolongation of this road leads to Zicavo, Petreto,
+  Bicchisano, and Portopollo, on the Gulf of Valinco.
+
+Forty-six m. from Bastia is Casabianda. H. Perett; a village situated on
+a well-cultivated estate belonging to the government; formerly used as
+an agricultural penitentiary for juvenile criminals. In the hot season
+it is safer to pass the night at Casabianda than at Aleria.
+
+[Headnote: ALERIA.]
+
+  miles from BONIFACIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{58¼}{44¾}
+ALERIA. Inn. The capital of Corsica till the invasion of the Saracens in
+the 4th cent., now a poor village with an old Genoese fort, situated at
+the mouth of the Tavignano, 1¼ m. from the Etang de Diane. Ancient
+Aleria, the colony founded by the dictator Sulla about 82 B.C., occupied
+both banks of the Tavignano, which waters one of the finest plains in
+the world, where winter is unknown. The site of the town was well
+selected. The population was probably 20,000.
+
+It was at Aleria that Theodore Neuhoff, a native of Altona, in Germany,
+landed to have himself proclaimed King of Corsica, March 1736. He died a
+pauper in London, and was buried in an obscure corner of St. Anne's
+churchyard, Soho. On a mural tablet against the exterior wall, west end,
+is the following epitaph written by Horace Walpole:--"Near this place is
+interred Theodore, King of Corsica, who died in this parish, Dec. 11,
+1756, immediately after leaving the King's Bench prison, by the benefit
+of the Act of Insolvency. In consequence of which, he registered his
+kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors." His capital was
+Cervione. The lake de Diane is a great sheet of salt water with one
+narrow opening to the sea. It formed the harbour of Aleria, and was
+provided with quays, of which a vestige still remains. The lake contains
+an island 460 yards in circumference, composed of oyster shells covered
+with luxurious vegetation. Fish, and a cockle a species of Venerupis,
+inhabit the brackish water of the lake.
+
+ALERIA TO CORTÉ.
+
+Coach every other day; fare, 5 francs; time, 4 hours.
+
+  Thirty-one and a half m. N.W., by a picturesque road up the
+  course of the Tavignano, passing Cateraggio, 2 m., Rotani, 5 m.,
+  commencement of bridle path leading N. to Tallone, 7½ m., Tox,
+  9½ m., Campo, 11 m., and Moïta, 12½ m. Seven m. farther up the main
+  road a ramification extends N. to Giuncaggio, 4½ m., and to
+  Pancheraccia, 5½ m.
+
+  Up the main road, 21½ m. from Aleria, and near the bridge across
+  the Vecchio, a bridle path strikes off S. to Rospigliani, 5 m., and
+  Vezzani, 6½ m. A little higher a ramification extends 5 m. W. to
+  Serraggio (p. 8). The road, after passing several other ramifications
+  with the Corté and Ajaccio road, arrives at Corté, p. 8.
+
+  Ten m. W. from Aleria are the cold saline sulphurous springs of
+  Puzzichello, 190 ft., considered efficacious in the cure of
+  syphilitic diseases, resembling in this property the water of Aulus
+  in the Pyrenees. See Black's _South France_, West Half (Pyrenees).
+
+[Headnote: PRUNETE.--CERVIONE.--ALESANI.]
+
+  miles from BONIFACIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{79}{24}
+PRUNETE. _Inn:_ Gaetan. Junction with road to Ponte alla Leccia, 44 m.
+N.W. (p. 9), leading through a region of chestnut trees and past many
+villages on the mountains, built chiefly on terraces. A coach runs from
+the station to Alesani called also Castagneto 1938 ft. 14 m. W.;
+  ascending by Muchieto 808 ft. 3¾ m., Cervione 1073 ft. 4½ m., pop.
+  1000; _Inns:_ France: Voyageurs: an untidy village, once the capital
+  of King Theodore's realm. From Cervione the road describes a long
+  detour to the bridge across the Chebbia, whence it ascends to Cotone
+  1008 ft 6¼ m., the Col d'Aja 1236 ft., and Ortale 1489 ft., 1¾ m.
+  from Alesani. Good red wine is made in the neighbourhood of
+  Cervione. The dirty little village of Castagneto or Alesani is
+  picturesquely situated on the side of a mountain overlooking a
+  valley covered with chestnut trees. The diligence stops at an inn,
+  where bread, eggs and coffee with goats' milk can be had and a
+  comfortable bed. A char-a-banc from this inn to Piedicroce (Orezza)
+  costs 10 frs., time 2½ hours, 11 miles. For Orezza, see p. 34.
+  Passengers from Prunete to Piedicroce or Stazzona should not stop at
+  Cervione but continue the diligence route to Castagneto, whence
+  start next morning. The drive between Castagneto and Piedicroce, 11
+  miles, is by far the most beautiful part of the road. The highest
+  part of the Col d'Arcarotta is a narrow ridge between the valleys of
+  Orezza and Ortia, commanding a charming view. See also p. 35.
+
+{87¼}{24¾}
+PADULELLA. Four and a quarter miles west by a good road is San Nicolao,
+pop. 600.
+
+[Headnote: STAZZONA.]
+
+{84¼}{18¾}
+FOLELLI-Orezza station. Junction with road to Piedicroce 14¼ m. S.W.;
+  by the course of the Fium'alto, the Chestnut country, and the
+  village of Stazzona, 13¼ m. from Folelli, ¼ m. from and 355 ft.
+  under Piedicroce, and 1 m. from and 200 ft. above the spring of
+  Orezza. The coach from the station stops at Stazzona, pop. 250.
+  _Hotels_: *Paix, Casino. Very fine oleanders in the gardens. On the
+  opposite side of the valley of the Fium'alto is Granajola, with the
+  establishment Manfredi, 2016 ft. above the sea and 220 feet above
+  the spring. The hotel Manfredi has the most select society, is the
+  largest house, and its road from the spring is the least dusty; but
+  as no public coach goes there it is necessary to hire a private
+  conveyance either at Stazzona or Piedicroce, 3 or 4 miles. The
+  charge in all the hotels is 7 frs. per day, not including coffee or
+  tea in the morning. The hotels of Stazzona and the hotel Manfredi
+  are the most convenient for the Spa drinkers; those of Piedicroce
+  are too distant.
+
+[Headnote: OREZZA.]
+
+  The Orezza spring is in the centre of a small terrace in the narrow
+  valley of the Fium'alto, whose steep banks are covered with chestnut
+  trees, and ascended by dusty winding roads. The water is a
+  bicarbonate chalybeate, with an agreeable amount of free carbonic
+  acid gas.
+
+[Headnote: VESCOVATO.]
+
+{89}{14}
+VESCOVATO STATION. Town 1¼ m. W., pop. 1500.
+  *H. de Progreso in the large "Place" where all the coaches stop,
+  near a fountain of pure gushing water, cold even in summer. The
+  rather untidy town of Vescovato is almost hidden in the corner of a
+  valley, 550 ft. above the sea, by woods of vigorous olive and
+  chestnut trees. From it a coach starts daily to Porta, 15 m. W., by
+  a bad, dusty, jolting road, passing through Venzolasca, pop. 1300,
+  on the top of a hill, 732 ft., 1½ m. from Vescovato. Three m.
+  farther a road, left, 1 m., leads to Porri, 1718 ft., pop. 300.
+  7½ m. from Vescovato is the Col S. Agostino, and then follow, 8 m.,
+  Silvareccio, 2198 ft., pop. 550; 8½ m., Piano, 2230 ft., pop. 170;
+  Casabianca, 4 m. farther, 2133 ft.; and then Porta, pop. 630; _Inn:_
+  H. Franceschi, in the "Place," opposite the church, where the coach
+  stops. In July and August the coach goes on to Piedicroce.
+
+{91}{12}
+PONT DU GOLO. A little more than 3 miles from the bridge, at the mouth
+of the river, stood the town of Mariana, founded by Marius (B. 155, D.
+86 B.C.), where Seneca most probably spent his exile, and of which there
+remain only a few insignificant fragments on the beach. In the vicinity
+are the ruins of a chapel, and about a mile farther those of the church,
+called La Canonica, with 2 aisles and a nave 100 feet long and 40 wide,
+ornamented with rows of pillars of the Doric order. Both church and
+chapel are in the Pisan style.
+
+At Casamozza Station, 12½ m. S. from Bastia, the Aleria railway joins
+the one from Corté.
+
+{103}
+BASTIA. See p. 10.
+
+
+Ponte alla Leccia to Piedicroce.
+
+  Eighteen miles S.E. by "Courrier" daily. Fare 3 frs. Time 5 hours,
+  by a mountain road, making immense circuits round by the heads of
+  ravines among rich pastures and great chestnut and beech trees.
+
+  Nine miles from the Ponte is Morosaglia, pop. 1060, with an inn,
+  where the coach stops. A conglomeration of hamlets on the slopes of
+  a mountain, one of which, Stretta, was the birthplace of Pascal
+  Paoli. 2 m. farther is the summit of the Col de Prato with an inn,
+  3215 ft., 2850 ft. below, or 3 hours from the top of San Pietro,
+  commanding a magnificent view of the Castagniccia or the Chestnut
+  country, and the islands of Monte Christo, Pianosa, and Elba,
+  floating in the haze between sky and water. See map on fly-leaf.
+
+[Headnote: CASTAGNICCIA.]
+
+  The Castagniccia may be said to lie between the Golo and the
+  Tavignano, bounded on the W. by the railway. The chestnut trees are
+  not so famous for their size as for the qualify of their fruit.
+
+  The coach having passed the hamlet of Campana arrives at
+
+[Headnote: PIEDICROCE.]
+
+  Piedicroce, pop. 600, several inns, 2104 ft., 18 m. from Ponte
+  alla Leccia, and 650 ft. above the spring of Orezza by a winding,
+  dusty, bad wheel road, passing Stazzona 1978 ft. above the sea.
+
+  Although Piedicroce is not a suitable place for those who come to
+  drink the Orezza water, it is an excellent centre for excursions,
+  the favourite one being to the top of Monte S. Pietro 5795 ft. in
+  3 hours, by the cabins of Tajalto 4600 ft., and a beech forest. Mule
+  to nearly the top. Guide and mule, 5 frs. See also above.
+
+  Coach in July and August to the Vescovato station by Porta, p. 34.
+
+
+Piedicroce to Prunete Station, 26 m. S.E.
+
+The continuation of the road from Ponte alla Leccia.
+
+  From Piedicroce the road passes by Pied'Orezza, 2106 ft., 1¾ m. from
+  Piedicroce, Piedipartino, 2124 ft., 2 m.; Carcheto, 2172 ft., 3m.;
+  Brustico, 2293 ft. 4 m.; the Col d'Arcarotta, 2698 ft., 5¼ m. from
+  Piedicroce, between the richly wooded valleys of the Fium'alto and
+  the Alesani, and commanding a very fine view of both. From this the
+  road gradually descends to Prunete, the most beautiful part being
+  from this Col to Castagneto called also Alesani, where there is an
+  inn and whence a coach starts daily to Prunete Railway Station.
+
+[Headnote: CASTAGNETO.]
+
+  Seven miles from Piedicroce and 2 from the Col is Ortia, 2638 ft.,
+  pop. 400, hidden among chesnut trees; Felce, 2570 ft., 8¾ m.,
+  pop. 400; Pied Alesani 11 m.; Querceto, 2041 ft., and Castagneto
+  or Alesani, 1938 ft., 12 m. from Piedicroce and 14 from Prunete
+  Railway Station, the principal village in this valley.
+
+  A little below Castagneto, at the commencement of this chestnut
+  wooded valley is Ortale, 1489 ft., pop. 280. The coach then having
+  passed Cotone 1008 ft., 19¼ m., pop. 800, and having crossed the
+  little bridge over the stream Chebbia arrives at Cervione, _Inn_,
+  France: 1073 ft., 21¾ m. from Piedicroce, and 4¼ from Prunete. From
+  Cervione another coach descends to Prunete Railway Station by
+  Muchieto 820 ft. Prunete consists of a few houses near the beach,
+  resorted to by bathers in summer, situated on the highway between
+  Bastia and Bonifacio. See also p. 33.
+
+
+Solenzara to Sartène,
+
+  46 m. S.W. This forest road, No. 4, ascends the valley of the
+  Solenzara, crosses the great S.E. range at the Col de Bavella,
+  descends into the valley of the Rizzanese, passes through the
+  villages of Zonza, San Gavino, Levie, and Ste. Lucie, and joins the
+  highroad between Ajaccio and Bonifacio at the milestone 76·690
+  (47¾ m.) from Ajaccio, 3¾ m. from Sartène, and 42 m. from Solenzara.
+
+The road, after passing up by the S. side of the river through olive
+groves and "maquis," arrives at the Col and Maison de Cantonniers de
+Castelluccio, 210 ft., 4 m. from Solenzara. Two m. farther by the Pont
+de Ghiadole, the road crosses the Solenzara by the Calzatojo bridge,
+6 m. from Solenzara, 340 ft., winds upward by the deep gully of the
+Fiumicello, which having crossed by the bridge 7¼ m. from Solenzara,
+ascends a steep winding road bordered with great trees to the Maison de
+Cantonniers de Rocchio-Pinzuto, 8¾ m., 1060 ft., at the foot of the
+great cliff of that name.
+
+The road still winding upwards passes the immense wall of reddish cliffs
+called the Rochers de Bavella before arriving at the Col de Larone
+10¾ m., 2056 ft. The road, still winding, ascends a huge promontory
+between the torrents Fiumicello and S. Pietro, separating into two
+distinct parts the forest of Bavella, and crosses the Pont de Bocintoro,
+1510 ft., 12 m. A little farther, in a wild yet beautiful situation,
+is the Maison de Cantonniers d'Arghiavara. From the Pont 1½ m. is the
+better house, la maison forestière de l'Alza, commanding superb views,
+situated among great trees and nursery gardens.
+
+The ascent from this is by a steep road, almost impracticable for
+vehicles, through a forest of the stateliest and oldest pines in
+Corsica.
+
+18 m. from Solenzara and 28 from Sartène is the Maison de Cantonniers de
+Bavella, 3885 ft., near the summit of the Col Bavella, 4068 ft. In this
+house of refuge there is generally comfortable accommodation and a
+supply of provisions. The surrounding huts are occupied in July and
+August by people from the plains about Solenzara, who come here to
+escape the fever-producing malaria. The house commands, even from the
+windows, grand views.
+
+On the other side of the Col, 550 ft. below it and 2¼ m. from it, is the
+Maison de Cantonniers de Ballatojo, from which the road descends amidst
+great pines mixed with a few oaks and ilexes, in view of the Asinao
+forest and of the lofty granite pinnacled precipices, 10 m. long,
+between Mt. Colva, 4520 ft., and the Point Tintinaja, 6658 ft.
+
+Zonza, good inn, pop. 1040, height 2582 ft., 24¼ m. from Solenzara and
+21¾ m. from Sartène, hidden among chestnut trees and conveniently
+situated for visiting the forests of Zonza, Asinao, and Bavella.
+
+[Headnote: S. GAVINO.]
+
+3½ m. beyond is San Gavino di Carbini, pop. 770, height 2238 ft., a poor
+miserable village, where there existed in 1365 a sect of socialists,
+with whom even the women and children were held in common, and by whom
+were committed frightful abominations.
+
+[Headnote: LEVIE.]
+
+30 m. from Solenzara and 16 m. from Sartène is Levie, consisting of
+various hamlets. Inn where the coach, running between this and Sartène,
+stops. Pop, 2040, height 2238 ft This village, easily approached, is
+situated among mountains abounding with game. It commands superb views,
+and makes in April a very pleasant residence. In winter it is rather
+cold. On the road between Levie and Santa Lucia di Tallano, 5 ½ m. from
+the Col d'Aja Vignarsa, 2408 ft., are seen the valley of the Rizzanese
+and the Gulfs of Valinco and Ajaccio. On the grassy table lands of the
+Col d'Aja are many rare flowers, among others a species of red
+gladiolus.
+
+[Headnote: S. LUCIA DI TALLANO.]
+
+5½ m. W. from Levie and 11¼ from Sartène is Santa Lucia di Tallano, pop.
+1300, Inn where the Sartène and Levie coach stops. S. Lucia is built in
+terraces on the hills rising from the Fiumicicoli. Church 14th cent. The
+wines grown in this neighbourhood command good prices in the Corsican
+market.
+
+Below, on the Fiumicicoli, is a hot sulphurous spring. On the way down
+to the river by the sides of the Point Campolaccia, near a place called
+Campolajo, is beautiful hornblende, page 27.
+
+From Santa Lucia the road leads southwards by the Rizzanese to Sartène,
+p. 27.
+
+
+
+
+SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF CORSICA.
+
+It is not known who the original inhabitants of Corsica were. The
+Phocæans of Ionia were the first civilised people that established
+settlements in Corsica. About the year 560 B.C. they landed on the
+island, and founded at the mouth of the Tavignano the city of Aleria,
+which after a short occupation they were compelled to abandon. After an
+interval of a few years they again returned, rebuilt Aleria, which they
+fortified, and endeavoured to maintain their ground against the natives.
+After a struggle of some years they were again compelled to leave the
+island. The next foreign occupants of Corsica were the Tuscans, who
+founded the city of Nicæa, but they in their turn were compelled to give
+way before the growing maritime power of the Carthaginians, whose
+jurisdiction in the island was unquestioned till the beginning of the
+first Punic War. On that occasion the Romans sent out a fleet, drove the
+Carthaginians from the island, and exacted at least a nominal homage
+from the native population. They did not, however, fully establish their
+power here till about thirty years later, and even then rebellions and
+revolts were of constant occurrence.
+
+[Headnote: ROMAN COLONIES.]
+
+The first step made towards the real subjugation of the island was the
+establishment of the two colonies on its eastern coast-that of Aleria by
+Sulla and that of Mariana by Marius. In the time of the emperors the
+island had fallen into disrepute among the Romans, by whom it was used
+chiefly as a place of banishment for political offenders. One of the
+most distinguished of these sufferers was the younger Seneca, who spent
+in this island eight years of banishment ending with 49 A.D.
+
+[Headnote: ARMS.] On the downfall of the Roman empire in the West,
+Corsica passed into the hands of the Vandals. These barbarians were
+driven out by Belisarius, but after his death, 565 A.D., the resistless
+hordes of Attila once more gained possession of the island. Since that
+period it has successively owned the dominion of the Goths, the
+Saracens, the Pisans and the Genoese. The impress of the last is to be
+found in the style of the church architecture, while the armorial crest
+of the island, a Moor's head, with a band across the brow, dates from
+the expedition of the Saracen king, Sanza Ancisa.
+
+The patroness of Corsica, the "Protectrice de la Corse," is Santa
+Devota; who is also the patron saint of Monaco. The Corsicans often
+style the Virgin Mary simply La Santa; and in their common exclamation
+Santa! Maria is understood.
+
+[Headnote: SAMPIERO.]
+
+Among the most renowned and intrepid patriots in the struggle of the
+Corsicans to free themselves from the Genoese was Sampiero, born of poor
+parents towards the end of the 15th cent, in Dominicacci, one of the
+hamlets which compose Bastelica. His house having been burned down by
+the Genoese, the inhabitants in the 18th cent. constructed a new one on
+the same site, on which Mr. Wyse, an Irishman, affixed a tablet with an
+inscription in 1855, expressing his admiration of the man. After serving
+with great distinction in the armies of the Italian princes and in those
+of Francis I., King of France, Sampiero returned to Corsica in 1547 and
+married the fair Vanina, heiress of Ornano, belonging to one of the
+oldest families in the island.
+
+Shortly after the marriage the Corsicans, led by Sampiero, revolted
+against the tyranny of the Banking Company of St. George of Genoa, and,
+assisted by the French, under General Thermes, overthrew them after six
+years of hard fighting and much bloodshed, in which Sampiero and his
+peasant army bore by far the greatest share. All, however, they had
+gained at such immense sacrifice was completely lost to them by the
+treaty of Chateau Cambresis, 1559, by which France agreed to restore
+Corsica to Genoa. Sampiero and his family had to leave the island. Such
+was the virulent and implacable hatred Sampiero bore to the Genoese,
+that he with his own hand, in cold blood, strangled mercilessly his
+trembling wife three years after (1562) in Marseilles, for having
+allowed herself, in his absence, to be persuaded to make an arrangement
+with the Genoese to save the patrimony of her children. Sampiero escaped
+with impunity, although he buried his murdered wife publicly, and with
+pomp, in the church of St. Francis at Marseilles.
+
+Antonio Francesco, the younger son, who was, when a mere child, with his
+mother when she was murdered, was afterwards assassinated at Rome by a
+Frenchman, whom he had insulted while playing at cards.
+
+On the 12th June 1564 Sampiero landed at the Gulf of Valinco with a band
+of 20 Corsicans and 25 Frenchmen, to make another desperate attempt to
+free Corsica from the hated yoke. After a five years' life-and-death
+struggle, fired by a feverish thirst for revenge, the Corsicans had to
+yield to the might of Genoa, supported by well-drilled Italian, German
+and Spanish mercenaries, commanded by their greatest generals, Doria,
+Centurione and Spinola, and aided by a powerful fleet.
+
+On the 17th January 1567 Sampiero was slain in an ambuscade laid for him
+in the defile of Cauro, into which he had been led by forged letters
+brought him by the monk Ambrosius of Bastelica.
+
+His elder son Alfonso d'Ornano continued the struggle after his father's
+death, till the exhausted state of Corsica compelled him to desist and
+to accept a general amnesty proclaimed by the Genoese governor George
+Doria in 1569. Alfonso d'Ornano was afterwards created "Maréchal de
+France."
+
+[Headnote: PASCAL PAOLI.]
+
+From 1755 the Corsicans, led by the brave Pascal Paoli, carried on the
+struggle for their independence against the Genoese, who were
+occasionally assisted by the French. On the 15th May 1768 the former
+sold their presumed claims to the island to the French, who ended this
+war of subjugation by the terrible battle of Ponte Nuovo, 9th May 1769.
+On the llth of June Paoli left Porto-Vecchio for London; where, at the
+instance of the Duke of Grafton, then prime minister of England, he
+received an annual pension of £1200.
+
+After Corsica had been made one of the departments of France he was
+invited in 1790, by the National Assembly, to take the supreme command
+in the island. On his arrival at Paris (3d April 1790), on his way to
+Corsica, he was fêted as the Washington of Europe, and Lafayette was
+constantly by his side; while, on his arrival at Marseilles, he was
+received by a deputation, among whom was Napoleon. In July 1790 he
+landed at Macinaggio, on the east side of Cap Corse.
+
+The execution of the king and the cruelties and excesses of the
+Convention having shocked the philanthropic spirit of Paoli and
+alienated his sympathies, he organised a revolt to separate Corsica from
+France, and succeeded by the aid of the English fleet, 20th July 1794,
+when Calvi, the last of the forts, surrendered. On the 10th of June 1794
+the Corsicans declared that they would unite their country to Great
+Britain, but that it was to remain independent, and to be governed by a
+viceroy according to their own constitution.
+
+The English, from ignorance, managed the affairs of the island so badly,
+that when in 1796 Napoleon sent troops against them, they were joined by
+the Corsicans, who together forced the English to leave the island. Not
+only had a certain Gilbert Elliot been named viceroy instead of Paoli,
+but this same man having written to the Government that it was necessary
+for the safety of the English to remove Paoli from the island, George
+III. wrote Paoli a letter inviting him to return to England and to his
+court. It is suspected that Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, president of the
+Council of State, under the short viceroyship of Elliot, influenced, for
+his own ends or from jealousy, the English in Corsica against Paoli.
+
+Paoli lived twelve years more in London, died peacefully on 5th February
+1807 at the age of 82, was buried in St. Pancras churchyard, and a small
+monument to his memory was placed in Westminster Abbey. He bequeathed to
+four professors of the intended Corté University salaries of £50 a year
+each, but as it was never established the money was given to the Ecole
+Paoli in Corté, attended by 120 pupils.
+
+Since the expulsion of the English, the French have remained in
+undisturbed possession of Corsica. The English occupation lasted from
+1794 to 1796.
+
+[Headnote: CHARACTER.]
+
+The Corsicans look to the Government for the improvement of their island
+far more than to their own efforts, for they themselves are neither
+industrious nor enterprising. The roads, railways, bridges and other
+public works are constructed chiefly by Italian labourers. The women do
+the drudgery both in their homes and on the fields, carrying great loads
+on their heads, as the mules do on their backs; but bestow little labour
+on the cleanliness of their children and dwellings, and do not make good
+domestic servants. In many small towns women are the bread bakers and
+assistant butchers. The villages, excepting in Cape Corse, are untidy.
+The use of the bath is almost unknown to young and old, rich and poor.
+
+[Headnote: VENDETTA.]
+
+The tendency to take summary vengeance, called vendetta, still exists in
+the villages; where the people having no social amusements, nothing to
+read, nor any other resource than cards during the winter nights, are
+apt to quarrel over trifles; which, fanned by their local petty
+jealousies, assisted often by the generous nature of their wine, ripen
+into deadly feuds.
+
+[Headnote: OAKS.]
+
+The staple food of the majority of the inhabitants, as well as of the
+horses and mules, during a great part of the year, is the chestnut. For
+domestic purposes it is mostly ground, when it costs only about half the
+price of wheat flour, which is procured chiefly from Marseilles, Corsica
+itself producing very little. The ease with which the harvest of
+chestnuts is annually obtained tends to foster indolence and deaden
+enterprise among the peasantry. The one great danger to which the
+generous chestnut trees are exposed is a conflagration. Besides olives,
+pines, beeches and chestnuts, there are also important forests of
+evergreen oaks, the Quercus Ilex, called also the holm oak. It has
+abundance of dark-green ovate leaves, mostly prickly at the margin; the
+acorns are oblong on short stalks; the stem grows to the height of 80
+ft.; the wood is dark-brown and hard, weighing 70 lbs. the cubic foot,
+while the same of the Quercus ruber or British oak weighs only 55 lbs.,
+and the tree attains a vast age. The cork oak, Quercus suber, grows
+either singly among other trees or in groups, principally in the
+southern parts of the island. The bark is of little commercial
+importance.
+
+[Headnote: AGRICULTURE.]
+
+  The inhabitants do not assist nature. Their seed potatoes are of an
+  inferior class, their fruit trees receive little attention, very few
+  of the vineyards are carefully cultivated, and their sheep, goats
+  and pigs are of poor breeds. Of late years many have taken to the
+  growing of lemons and citrons; which in a good year yield a very
+  handsome profit; but the harvest, through untimely frosts, is
+  precarious. The headquarters of this culture is Cape Corse. The
+  olive trees yield a more secure though less remunerative harvest.
+  That terrible scourge the phylloxera has got among the vineyards,
+  where it is committing its usual havoc.
+
+  The drives and pedestrian excursions about Corsica are superb,
+  especially along the east side and up the centre by Sartène, Zicavo
+  and Ghisoni (p. 27), and the road between Calvi and Ponte alla
+  Leccia (p. 20). There are inns in all the large villages, though the
+  only good and comfortable hotels are in Ajaccio.
+
+[Headnote: FORESTHOUSES.]
+
+  Enterprising tourists wishing to explore the great forests and to
+  scale the mountains should endeavour to procure letters of
+  introduction from the chief forestal authorities at Ajaccio, Corté,
+  Bastia or Calvi to the occupants of the Maisons Forestières in the
+  forests to be visited. Although the gardes forestières are generally
+  hospitable, they are afraid to follow their inclination without
+  orders from their superiors. For each day in these houses 7 to 8
+  frs. should be given.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX.
+
+
+AGRICULTURE                                               41
+Aïtone forest                                         18, 23
+Ajaccio                                                  3
+  Bankers                                                  3
+  Cab tariff                                               3
+  Cathedral                                                5
+  Climate                                                  6
+  Curiosities                                              6
+  Drives                                                   3
+  Episcopal chapel                                         3
+  Excursions                                               5
+  Fountains                                                6
+  Hotels                                                   3
+  Library                                                  5
+  Memorial chapel                                          5
+  Mission                                                  3
+  Napoleon                                                 4
+  Picture gallery                                          5
+  Pozzo di Borgo                                           4
+  St. Pancras                                              6
+  Sepulchral chapels                                       6
+  Steamers                                                 2
+  Water-carriers                                           6
+Ajaccio to Bastia                                          7
+---- to Corté                                              7
+---- to Sartène                                           23
+---- to Vico and Evisa                                    22
+Albertacce                                                19
+Albuccia point                                            28
+Aleria                                                    32
+---- to Corté                                             33
+---- to Puzzichello                                       33
+Alesani                                               33, 35
+Algajola                                                  15
+Amphibole                                                 27
+Apa                                                       24
+---- to Zicavo                                            24
+Appietto                                                  22
+Arcarotta col                                         33, 35
+Asco                                                  19, 20
+Aullene                                                   27
+
+BALAGNA VALLEY                                            20
+Balogna                                                   23
+Baracci baths                                             26
+Barcaggio                                                 14
+Bastelica                                                 24
+Bastia                                                    10
+---- to Calvi                                             14
+---- to Cap Corse                                         11
+---- rail to Aleria                                       34
+Baths of Baracci                                          26
+---- of Caldaniccia                                        6
+---- of Guagno                                            23
+---- of Guitera                                           25
+---- of Orezza                                            34
+---- of Pietrapola                                    28, 32
+---- of Puzzichello                                       33
+Bavella col                                       26, 31, 36
+Belgodere                                                 21
+---- to Olmi-Capella                                      21
+---- to Tartagine forest                                  21
+Bettianella lake                                           9
+Bevinco                                                   10
+Bianca bocca                                              22
+Bicchisano                                                26
+Biguglia lake                                             10
+Bocca Melza                                               16
+Bocognano                                                  7
+Bonifacio                                               30
+  Caves                                                   31
+  Charles V.                                              30
+  Napoleon                                                30
+Bonifacio to Bastia                                       31
+Borgo                                                     10
+Botticella                                                14
+Brando cave                                           10, 12
+Brustico                                                  35
+
+CALACUCCIA                                                19
+Calasima                                                  19
+Calcatoggio                                               17
+Caldanella                                                17
+Caldaniccia                                                6
+Calenzana                                                 22
+Calenzana                                                 15
+Calvi                                                     15
+---- to Ajaccio                                           16
+---- to Bastia                                            20
+Campo                                                     25
+Cap Corse                                                 11
+Capella mount                                             27
+Capronale col                                             16
+Cargese                                                   17
+Cargiaca                                                  27
+Carrosaccia                                                6
+Casabianca                                                34
+Casabianda                                                32
+Casamaccioli                                              19
+Casamozza                                                 34
+Cassalabriva                                              26
+Castagneto                                            33, 35
+Castagniccia                                              35
+Castellaccio col                                          16
+Castello punta                                            24
+Castiglione                                               20
+Cauro                                                     23
+---- to Bastelica                                         24
+Celaccia col                                              26
+Cervione                                              33, 35
+Character                                                 40
+Chestnut trees                                         1, 41
+Chidazzo                                                  18
+Cineraggia mount                                          21
+  bocca                                                   22
+Cinto mount                                        1, 19, 20
+Climate                                                    2
+Coast lakes                                       10, 31, 32
+Corona mount                                          19, 21
+Corsican arms                                             38
+---- character                                            40
+---- dimensions                                            1
+---- patroness                                            38
+Corscia                                                   19
+Corté                                                      8
+---- to Aleria                                             8
+---- to Mt. Rotondo                                        8
+Coscione mount                                            25
+Cotone                                                33, 35
+Cozzano                                                   27
+Cristinacce                                               17
+Cuculla mount                                             18
+
+DENTE CAPO                                                21
+Diana lake                                                32
+Dominicacci                                               24
+Don Giovanni mount                                        27
+
+ELSE VALLEY                                               24
+Erbajo col                                             8, 16
+Erbalunga                                                 12
+Ersa                                                      14
+Escutcheon                                                38
+Evergreen oaks                                            41
+Evisa                                                 18, 23
+---- to Albertacce                                        18
+
+FELCE                                                     35
+Feliceto                                              21, 22
+Fium Orbo source                                          28
+Folelli                                                   33
+---- to Piedicroce                                        33
+Francardo bridge                                       9, 20
+Frasseto                                              24, 25
+
+GALERIA                                                   16
+---- to forests of Filosorma                              16
+Ghisonaccia                                               32
+---- to Ghisoni                                           29
+Ghisoni                                                   29
+---- to Ghisonaccia                                       29
+Giraglia island                                           14
+Golo source                                               19
+Gozzi mount                                               22
+Granace col                                               25
+Grosso mount                                              21
+Guagno baths                                              23
+Guitera baths                                             25
+
+HISTORY                                                   37
+Houses of shelter 41. See also under "Maison."
+
+ILE ROUSSE                                                15
+Incudine mount                                            25
+Inzecca                                                   29
+Isolaccio                                                 28
+
+KYRIE ELEISON                                             28
+
+LACCIOLA COL                                              17
+La Piana                                                  17
+Larone col                                            26, 36
+Lavatoggio                                                21
+Leone coronato                                            30
+Levie                                             26, 32, 37
+Lonca valley                                              16
+Lozzi                                                     19
+Lugo                                                       8
+Lugo di Nazza                                             32
+Lumio                                                     15
+Luri                                                      12
+
+MACINAGGIO                                            13, 39
+Maddalena isle                                            25
+Maison Aïtone                                             18
+---- Alza                                                 36
+---- Arghiavara                                           36
+---- Ballatojo                                            36
+---- Bavella                                              36
+---- Canareccia                                           28
+---- Castellaccio                                         18
+---- Castelluccio                                         36
+---- Ghiraldino                                           28
+---- Marmano                                              28
+---- Ometa                                                16
+---- Popaja                                               19
+---- Rocchio-Pinzuto                                      36
+---- S. Antoine                                           28
+---- Sciattarina                                          18
+---- Scrivano                                             28
+---- Tagnone                                              18
+---- Zipitoli                                             24
+Manganella col                                             9
+Mariana                                                   34
+Marmano forest                                            28
+Menta col                                                 24
+Moltifao                                                  20
+Moor's head                                               38
+Morosaglia                                                35
+Morsaglia                                                 14
+Mouflon                                                    2
+Muchieto                                              33, 35
+
+NAPOLEON                                           4, 26, 30
+Nelson                                                    26
+Nino lake                                                 19
+Niolo                                                     19
+Nonza                                                 12, 14
+
+OLIVESE                                                   27
+Olive trees                                               20
+Olmeto                                                    26
+Olmi-Capella                                              21
+Ometa ilex forest                                         16
+Oninanda col                                              20
+Orezza spa                                                34
+Oro mount                                                  1
+Ortale                                                33, 35
+
+PADRO MOUNT                                            1, 21
+Padulella                                                 33
+Pagliorba mount                                            1
+Palasca                                                   22
+Palneca                                                   28
+Pancheraccia                                              33
+Paoli                                                     39
+Patron Saint                                              38
+Pecorile                                                  14
+Perticato forest                                          16
+Pertusato mount                                           31
+Petrella col                                              19
+Piano                                                     34
+Piedicroce                                         34, 9, 35
+---- to Prunete                                           35
+Pietrapola baths                                      28, 32
+Pines                                                      7
+Pino                                                  12, 14
+Pinus Laricio                                              7
+Pinus Pinaster                                             7
+Poggio di Nazza                                           32
+Pont Diable                                               20
+Pont du Golo                                              34
+Ponte alla Leccia                                      9, 22
+---- to Calvi                                             20
+---- to Piedicroce                                        34
+Ponteniello forest                                        24
+Ponte Novo                                             9, 22
+Popolasca                                                 20
+Porri                                                     34
+Porta                                                     34
+Porto                                                     16
+---- to Evisa                                             18
+---- to Ponte Francardo                                   18
+Portopollo                                                32
+Porto-Vecchio                                             31
+Prato col                                                 35
+Propriano                                                 26
+---- to Solenzara                                         26
+Prunelli source                                           28
+Prunete                                               33, 35
+---- to Alesani                                           33
+
+QUERCUS ILEX                                              41
+
+RAPARA COL                                                28
+Renoso mount                                           7, 24
+Retto mount                                               19
+Rogliano                                                  13
+Rotondo mount                                           1, 8
+
+SAGONA                                                17, 23
+---- to Aitone forest                                     17
+---- to Vico                                              23
+St. Antoine col                                           23
+---- Bernardino col                                       14
+---- Colombano col                                        22
+---- Devota                                               38
+---- Florent                                              14
+---- Georges col                                          24
+---- Gavino di Carbini                                    37
+---- Lucia di Tallano                         26, 27, 32, 37
+---- Lucie col                                            12
+---- Maria Siché                                          24
+---- Nicolao                                              33
+---- Pietro mount                                         35
+---- Sebastien col                                        22
+---- Severa                                               12
+Salario fountain                                           6
+Sampiero                                              24, 38
+Sartène                                                   27
+---- to Bonifacio                                         30
+---- to Vivario                                           27
+Scala di Santa Regina                                     10
+Scozzolatojo col                                          29
+Scrivano col                                              28
+Sea-urchins                                               22
+Sebastien col                                             17
+Seneca's tower                                            12
+Serra col                                                 14
+Serraggio                                              8, 33
+Sevi col                                                  17
+Silvareccio                                               34
+Solenzara                                                 31
+---- to Sartène                                           36
+---- to Zonza                                             31
+Sollacaro                                                 26
+Sorba col                                                 29
+Speloncato                                                21
+Spelunca                                                  18
+Sposata                                                   25
+Stazzona                                                  34
+Steamers                                           2, 10, 11
+Stretta                                                   35
+
+TACA FOREST                                               27
+Tafonato mount                                        16, 18
+Taravo source                                             28
+Tartagine forest                                          21
+Teghime col                                               14
+Theodore Neuhoff                                          32
+Torre all'Osse                                            12
+Traunato mount                                            20
+Treccio ilex forest                                       16
+
+UCCIANI BRIDGE                                             7
+Uomo di Cagna                                             30
+
+VADINA                                                     8
+Valdoniello forest                                    18, 23
+Vanina                                                25, 38
+Vecchio source                                            28
+Vendetta                                                  40
+Venzolasca                                                34
+Verde col                                                 28
+Verde forest                                              28
+Vergio col                                                18
+Vescovato                                                 34
+---- to Porta                                             34
+Vico                                                      23
+Ville                                                     21
+Vivario                                                8, 29
+---- to Pietrapola                                         8
+---- to Sartène                                           27
+Vizzavona                                                  7
+
+WINES                                                  2, 11
+Wyse, W.,                                                 24
+
+ZECAVO                                                    25
+Zicavo                                            25, 27, 28
+Zonza                                             26, 31, 36
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Errors and Uncertainties noted by Transcriber
+
+When the Index and body text disagreed on spelling, the form shown in
+the General Map was used. The abbreviation "ft" has been regularized to
+"ft." where full stop was missing or invisible.
+
+_Inconsistencies (as alphabetized in Index, where applicable)_
+
+Between the 51st and 53d kilomètre stones
+60 kilometres-stone,
+  _inconsistency in original_
+Calenzana (pg 15)
+  _Index entry reads "Calenzani", but body text has "Calenzana"; it
+  appears to refer to the same place as the earlier Index entry
+  "Calenzana"_
+Granace (col)
+  _body text "Garanace", Index "Garance", Map "Granace". The Map's
+  spelling was used because it can be found in modern sources._
+PONTE NOVO. The site of the disastrous battle ...
+The Ponte Nuovo is distinctly ...
+... the terrible battle of Ponte Nuovo ...
+[Index] Ponte Novo  9, 22
+  _the General Map and the town description (p. 9) use the "Novo"
+  spelling; other references (p. 22, 39) use "Nuovo". The Index as
+  printed had parallel entries for each spelling, omitting p. 39_
+Col St. Sebastien [text and Index]
+Col Sebastien [text and Index]
+  _variant forms of same name_
+Zicavo ... 2385 ft.
+Zicavo, 2445 ft.
+  _same place: map has 2345 ft._
+
+_Errors_
+
+[Contents]
+Ajaccio to Sartène
+  _text reads "Sarténe"_
+Portotorres, at the north-west extremity of Sicily
+  _error for Sardinia_
+and other 2½ m. the village of Levie
+  _error for "and another"?_
+S. Lucia de Tallano, on the highroad to Aullene
+  _text reads "Lucie"_
+Ortia, 2638 ft., pop. 400, hidden among chestnut trees
+  _text reads "chesnut trees"_
+From 1755 the Corsicans, led by the brave Pascal Paoli
+  _text reads "Corscians"_
+Quercus Ilex
+  _text and Index: should be "Quercus ilex"_
+[Index]
+(Ajaccio) to Corté
+  _page reference missing from text_
+  _may be intentional: Corté is on Ajaccio-Bastia itinerary_
+Corscia
+  _not an error here: "Corscia" is the name of a village_
+Levie
+  _text has "Levie   37, 32" only_
+
+
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+<h1 class="pg">The Project Gutenberg eBook, Itinerary through Corsica, by Charles Bertram
+Black</h1>
+<pre>
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre>
+<p>Title: Itinerary through Corsica</p>
+<p>       by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads</p>
+<p>Author: Charles Bertram Black</p>
+<p>Release Date: November 20, 2006  [eBook #19882]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ITINERARY THROUGH CORSICA***</p>
+<br><br><center><h5 class="pg">E-text prepared by Louise Hope, Carlo Traverso,<br>
+    and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br>
+    (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">http://www.pgdp.net/</a>)<br>
+    from page images generously made available by the<br>
+    Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)<br>
+    (<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/">http://gallica.bnf.fr/</a>)</h5></center><br><br>
+<table border=0 bgcolor="ddddee" cellpadding=10>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top">
+      Note:
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+    <td>
+      Images of the original pages are available through
+      La Bibliothèque nationale de France. See
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+      http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1034792</a>
+   </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p class = "mynote">
+Transcriber's note:<br>
+<br>
+A few typographical errors have been corrected. They are shown in the
+text with <ins class = "correction" title = "like this">mouse-hover
+popups</ins>. Additional transcriber's notes are at the end of the book.
+</p>
+<br>
+<br>
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+
+
+<!--png 002-->
+<p class = "illustration">
+<a name = "map1" id = "map1" href = "images/map1.png">
+<img src = "images/map1thumb.png" width = "427" height = "323"
+alt = "map of the Riviera and Corsica"
+title = "map of the Riviera and Corsica"></a></p>
+<p class = "caption">
+Sketch Map of the Riviera and Corsica<br>
+<a href = "images/map1.png">&mdash; larger view &mdash;</a></p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<!--png 004-->
+<h3 class = "chapter">CORSICA.<br>&nbsp;</h3>
+
+<hr class = "chapter">
+
+<!--png 005-->
+
+<h5>NEW EDITIONS OF GUIDE-BOOKS FOR</h5>
+
+<h4><span class = "sans">FRANCE, BELGIUM, SPAIN, PORTUGAL</span><br>
+AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.</h4>
+
+<h5 class = "sans">Copiously Illustrated with Maps and Plans.</h5>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>NORTH-FRANCE</b>&mdash;From the North Sea to the Loire, exclusive of
+Paris, and from the Bay of Biscay to the Rhine. 19 Maps and 21 Plans
+<span class = "price">7/6</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>SOUTH-FRANCE</b>&mdash;From the Loire to the Mediterranean, and from
+the Bay of Biscay to the rivers Arno and Po. The island of Corsica. 40
+Maps and 27 Plans
+<span class = "price">7/6</span> </p>
+
+<h5 class = "ital">Published also in separate Parts.</h5>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+North-France, <b>WEST-HALF</b>, or <span class = "smallcaps">Normandy,
+Brittany</span> and <span class = "smallcaps">Touraine</span>. 14 Maps
+and 16 Plans. Eighth Edition
+<span class = "price">5/&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>NORMANDY</b>: Its <span class = "smallcaps">Castles</span> and <span
+class = "smallcaps">Churches</span>. Second Edition. 5 Maps and 9 Plans
+<span class = "price">2/6</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+North-France, <b>EAST-HALF</b>, or <span class = "smallcaps">Picardy,
+Champagne, Lorraine, Alsace</span> and part of <span class =
+"smallcaps">Burgundy</span>. 5 Plans and 5 Maps. Third Edition
+<span class = "price">2/6</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+South-France, <b>WEST-HALF</b>. The <span class = "smallcaps">Summer
+Resorts</span> in the <span class = "smallcaps">Pyrenees; Luchon,
+Bigorre, Barèges</span>, etc.; the <span class = "smallcaps">Winter
+Resorts</span> of <span class = "smallcaps">Pau, Arcachon, Biarritz, St.
+Jean-de-Luz, Vernet, Amélie-les-Bains</span> and <span class =
+"smallcaps">Malaga</span>, and the <span class = "smallcaps">Claret-Wine
+Vineyards</span> in <span class = "smallcaps">Medoc</span>. 17 Maps and
+4 Plans. Fourth Edition
+<span class = "price">2/6</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+South-France, <b>EAST-HALF</b>, or the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Valleys</span> of the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Waldenses</span>, of the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Rhône</span>, the <span class = "smallcaps">Durance</span>
+and the <span class = "smallcaps">Upper Loire</span>; the Baths of <span
+class = "smallcaps">Vichy, Aix-les-Bains, Royat, Vals, Mont-Dore,
+Bourboule, Bourbon-Lancy, Acqui, Lucca, Valdieri</span>, etc.; the <span
+class = "smallcaps">Volcanic Region of Ardèche</span>; the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Mountain-Passes</span> between <span class =
+"smallcaps">France</span> and <span class = "smallcaps">Italy</span>;
+and the <span class = "smallcaps">Riviera</span> of the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Mediterranean</span> from <span class =
+"smallcaps">Marseilles</span> to <span class =
+"smallcaps">Leghorn</span>. 20 Plans and 21 Maps. Fourth Edition
+<span class = "price">5/&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>THE RIVIERA</b>, or the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Mediterranean</span> from <span class =
+"smallcaps">Marseilles</span> to <span class =
+"smallcaps">Leghorn</span>, including the inland towns of <span class =
+"smallcaps">Pisa, Lucca, Carrara</span> and <span class =
+"smallcaps">Florence</span>, and Excursions into the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Maritime Alps</span>. Fourth Edition. 10 Plans and 13 Maps
+<span class = "price">2/6</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>CORSICA</b>, its Rail, Carriage and Forest Roads, with 6 Maps from
+the latest authorities. Second Edition
+<span class = "price">1/&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>BELGIUM</b>, its <span class = "smallcaps">Churches, Chimes</span>
+and <span class = "smallcaps">Battlefields</span>. 9 Plans and 4 Maps
+<span class = "price">2/6</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>NORTH-FRANCE</b> (East-Half) and <b>BELGIUM</b> in One Volume,
+including a part of <span class = "smallcaps">Holland</span>. Convenient
+for those going to Aix-la-Chapelle, Spa, Vittel, Contrexéville, or any
+of the Bathing Stations on the North Sea
+<span class = "price">5/&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>HANDBOOK</b> for the <b>CAR-TOURIST</b> in the pleasant Islands of
+<span class = "smallcaps">Jersey, Guernsey</span> and <span class =
+"smallcaps">Alderney</span>. Maps and Plans. Second Edition
+<span class = "price">1/&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "hanging">
+<b>SPAIN</b> and <b>PORTUGAL</b>. (<span class =
+"smallcaps">O’Shea.</span>) Seventh Edition. Edited by <span class =
+"smallcaps">John Lomas</span>. Crown 8vo. Maps and Plans
+<span class = "price">15/&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> </p>
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<h5 class = "boldf">From “Scotsman,� June 2, 1884.</h5>
+
+<p class = "smaller ital">
+“C. B. Black’s Guide-books have a character of their own; and that
+character is a good one. Their author has made himself personally
+acquainted with the localities with which he deals in a manner in which
+only a man of leisure, a lover of travel, and an intelligent observer of
+Continental life could afford to do. He does not ‘get up’ the places as
+a mere hack guide-book writer is often, by the necessity of the case,
+compelled to do. Hence he is able to correct common mistakes, and to
+supply information on minute points of much interest apt to be
+overlooked by the hurried observer.�</p>
+
+
+<!--png 006-->
+<hr>
+
+<h2>ITINERARY</h2>
+
+<h6>THROUGH</h6>
+
+<h1 class = "extended">CORSICA</h1>
+
+<h6>BY ITS</h6>
+
+<h3>RAIL, CARRIAGE &amp; FOREST ROADS</h3>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/corsica.png" width = "81" height = "100"
+alt = "arms of Corsica" title = "arms of Corsica"></p>
+
+<h6 class = "section sans">ILLUSTRATED BY FIVE MAPS AND ONE PLAN</h6>
+
+<h5>C. B. BLACK</h5>
+
+<h5 class = "section">EDINBURGH<br>
+ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK<br>
+1888</h5>
+
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">v</span>
+<a name = "pagev" id = "pagev"> </a>
+<!--png 008-->
+
+<h3 class = "chapter">CONTENTS.</h3>
+
+<div class = "mynote">
+
+<p>The four pages consisting of the Contents and List of Illustrations
+appeared twice in the original text, with identical wording and layout
+except that the first group was headed “Contents�, the second “Corsica.�
+The duplicate text has been omitted here.</p>
+
+<p><a href = "#duplicate">More information.</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<table class = "toc" summary = "table of contents">
+
+<tr>
+<td></td>
+<td class = "number smallroman">PAGE</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href =
+"#corsica"><b>Corsica.</b></a>&mdash;Position&mdash;Extent&mdash;Population&mdash;Highest
+Mountains&mdash;Forests&mdash;Vegetation&mdash;Aspect&mdash;Climate&mdash;Steamboats</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page1">1</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href =
+"#ajaccio"><b>Ajaccio.</b></a>&mdash;Hotels&mdash;Cabs&mdash;Napoleon’s
+Birthplace&mdash;Memorial Chapel&mdash;Chapel of San
+Antonio&mdash;Chapelle Greco&mdash;Fontaine du Salario&mdash;Family
+Sepulchral Chapels&mdash;Climate&mdash;Fair of St. Pancras&mdash;Water
+Carriers&mdash;Curiosities</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page3">3</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#ajaccio_to_bastia"><b>Ajaccio to Bastia by
+Corté.</b></a>&mdash;This road traverses the centre of the island
+diagonally, exhibits every characteristic of Corsica, crosses the
+longest rivers, passes through one of the greatest forests and by some
+of the highest mountains, and connects the three principal towns. Rail
+between Corté and Bastia</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page7">7</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p class = "nohang">
+From Vivario, <a href = "#vivario">p. 8</a>, a road leads to the mineral
+water establishment of Pietrapola. From Corté, <a href =
+"#corte">p.&nbsp;8</a>, the ascent is made of Mt. Rotondo. From the
+Ponte Francardo, <a href = "#francardo9">p.&nbsp;9</a>, the most
+important of the Forest roads extends S.W. to Porto by Albertacce and
+Evisa. From Albertacce the ascent is made of Mt. Cinto.</p>
+
+<p class = "nohang">
+The great highway traversing the island from Prunete to Calvi passes
+through Ponte alla Leccia, <a href = "#leccia9">p.&nbsp;9</a>. From
+Bastia, <a href = "#bastia">p.&nbsp;10</a>, are trains or diligences to
+every part of the east coast, and steamers to Leghorn, Genoa, Nice and
+Marseilles.</p>
+</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#bastia_to_rogliano"><b>Bastia to Rogliano and
+Morsaglia</b></a>, skirting the east coast of the long peninsula called
+Cap Corse. This road follows more or less the level of the sea till it
+reaches Macinaggio, whence it ascends to Morsaglia. The highway on the
+western side of Cap Corse is cut along the flanks of the mountains,
+generally at a considerable height above the sea</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page11">11</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#bastia_to_calvi"><b>Bastia to Calvi</b></a> by St. Florent
+and the Ile Rousse</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page14">14</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#calvi_to_ajaccio"><b>Calvi to Ajaccio</b></a>, by Galeria,
+Porto and Sagona. From Galeria and Porto great Forest roads penetrate
+into the interior</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page16">16</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "pagenum">vi</span>
+<a name = "pagevi" id = "pagevi"> </a>
+<!--png 009-->
+<p>
+<a href = "#galeria_to_filosorma"><span class =
+"smallcaps">Galeria</span> to the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Forests</span> of <span class =
+"smallcaps">Filosorma.</span></a>&mdash;Tourists should not explore any
+of the great Forest roads without being provided with letters to the
+dwellers in the maisons forestières and in those of the Cantonniers; see
+<a href = "#maison">p.&nbsp;41</a> and <a href = "#map5">map,
+p.&nbsp;20</a></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page16">16</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#porto_to_francardo"><span class = "smallcaps">Porto</span>
+to the <span class = "smallcaps">Ponte Francardo.</span></a>&mdash;The
+most important of all the Forest roads. It passes through Evisa and by
+several good “maisons forestières.� From the Col Vergio is seen Mt.
+Tafanato, with its natural tunnel, and from Albertacce is commenced the
+ascent of Mt. Cinto. Several mule-paths ramify from this forest road,
+the most important being to Lake Nino and Corté, and to Asco: whence Mt.
+Cinto is also ascended. The most famous part of the road itself is the
+Scala di Santa Regina</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page18">18</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#calvi_to_bastia"><b>Calvi to Corté</b> or to <span class =
+"smallcaps">Bastia</span></a> by <span class = "smallcaps">Ponte alla
+Leccia.</span>&mdash;This road traverses a most picturesque country, and
+the region of the finest olive trees in the island</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page20">20</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#belgodere_to_tartagine"><span class =
+"smallcaps">Belgodere</span> to the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Forest</span> of <span class =
+"smallcaps">Tartagine.</span></a>&mdash;This forest contains few old
+trees, and is not of easy access</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page21">21</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#ajaccio_to_evisa"><b>Ajaccio to Evisa</b></a>, <span class =
+"smallcaps">Vico</span> and the <span class = "smallcaps">Baths</span>
+of <span class = "smallcaps">Guagno</span></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page22">22</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#ajaccio_to_sartene"><b>Ajaccio to <ins class = "correction"
+title = "text reads ‘Sarténe’">Sartène</ins></b></a>, by <span class =
+"smallcaps">Cauro, Apa, Olmeto</span> and <span class =
+"smallcaps">Propriano</span>. See S.W. end of <a href = "#map2">general
+map</a></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page23">23</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#cauro_to_bastelica"><span class = "smallcaps">Cauro</span>
+to <span class = "smallcaps">Bastelica</span></a>.&mdash;Bastelica is
+the common name of a group of hamlets, in one of which Sampiero was
+born. From this the ascent is made of Mt. Renoso</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page24">24</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#ajaccio_to_zicavo"><span class = "smallcaps">Ajaccio</span>
+and <span class = "smallcaps">Apa</span> to <span class =
+"smallcaps">Zicavo</span></a> and the <span class =
+"smallcaps">Baths</span> of <span class = "smallcaps">Guitera</span>, by
+Santa-Maria-Siché, Frasseto and Zecavo. S.&nbsp;Maria-Siché is the
+birthplace of the fair and gentle Vanina. From Zicavo the ascent is made
+of Mt. Incudine; whence is beheld the finest view in Corsica. See maps
+on <a href = "#map1">fly-leaf</a> and fronting <a href =
+"#map6">p.&nbsp;27</a></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page24">24</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#propriano_to_solenzara"><span class =
+"smallcaps">Propriano</span> to <span class =
+"smallcaps">Solenzara</span></a>, from the S.W. to the S.E. of the
+island. This Route Forestière is better treated on <a href =
+"#solenzara_to_sartene">p.&nbsp;36</a>, as Solenzara to Sartène</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page26">26</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#sartene_to_corte"><b>Sartène to Corté by
+Vivario</b></a>.&mdash;This is the great central highway, of which the
+wildest and most difficult part is given on <a href = "#map6">map,
+p.&nbsp;27</a>. It leads to some fine forests, of which the best is the
+Verde forest. At the most desolate portion are tolerably comfortable
+maisons forestières. Vehicles should be hired either at Sartène or
+Vivario, 20 to 25 frs. per day</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page27">27</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class = "pagenum">vii</span>
+<a name = "pagevii" id = "pagevii"> </a>
+<!--png 010-->
+<p>
+<a href = "#ghisoni_to_ghisonaccia"><span class =
+"smallcaps">Ghisoni</span> to <span class =
+"smallcaps">Ghisonaccia</span></a>, by the route forestière, extending
+from the central main road to the Ghisonaccia railway station on the
+east coast. The most dangerous part of the road is the "Passage"
+Inzecca. See <a href = "#map6">map, p.&nbsp;27</a></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page29">29</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#sartene_to_bonifacio"><span class =
+"smallcaps">Sartène</span> to <span class =
+"smallcaps">Bonifacio</span></a></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page30">30</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#bonifacio_to_bastia"><b>Bonifacio to Bastia</b></a> by the
+fertile plains and insalubrious lakes of the east coast</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page31">31</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#aleria_to_corte"><b>Aleria to Corté</b></a> by a picturesque
+road following the course of the Tavignano. Coach every other
+day</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page33">33</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#prunete"><b>Prunete to Castagneto</b></a> or <span class =
+"smallcaps">Alesani</span>, by coach daily. Castagneto is one of the
+villages in the Castagniccia or Chestnut country. The road ascends all
+the way. It, as well as most of the roads into the interior, should not
+be taken till the chestnut trees are in leaf</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page33">33</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#folelli"><span class = "smallcaps">Folelli</span> to <span
+class = "smallcaps">Stazzona</span></a> by coach daily. Stazzona is the
+village nearest to the Spa of Orezza. The road extends to Ponte alla
+Leccia</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page33">33</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#vescovato_to_porta"><span class = "smallcaps">Vescovato
+Station</span> to <span class = "smallcaps">Porta</span></a>, by coach
+daily, passing Vescovato, Venzolasca and Silvareccio. In summer the
+coach goes on to Piedicroce</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page34">34</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#leccia_to_piedicroce"><span class = "smallcaps">Ponte alla
+Leccia</span> to <span class = "smallcaps">Piedicroce</span></a> by
+“Courrier� daily</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page34">34</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#piedicroce_to_prunete"><b>Piedicroce to
+Prunete</b></a>-Railway Station, the finest part of the road being
+between Piedicroce and Castagneto. Coach from Castagneto to Prunete by
+Cervione. From Castagneto or Alesani to Prunete see Prunete to Alesani,
+on <a href = "#prunete">p.&nbsp;33</a></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page35">35</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#solenzara_to_sartene"><span class =
+"smallcaps">Solenzara</span>, on the S.E. coast, to <span class =
+"smallcaps">Sartène</span></a>, 46&nbsp;m. S.W., by a forest road with
+much fine scenery</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page36">36</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#history"><span class = "smallcaps">History, Habits,
+Agriculture</span></a> and <a href = "#maison"><span class =
+"smallcaps">Houses of Refuge</span></a>, called "Maison" in the
+index</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page37">37</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class = "sans"><br>
+<a href = "#index">Index</a></td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">viii</span>
+<a name = "pageviii" id = "pageviii"> </a>
+<!--png 011-->
+
+<h3 class = "section">LIST OF MAPS.</h3>
+
+<p class = "mynote">
+Some maps have been moved from their original location as printed in the
+List. Maps shown in the text are thumbnails linked to larger versions.
+Blue lines and numbers were extremely faded and have been redrawn. Note
+that some maps include segments of railroad which had been planned but
+not completed at the time of the guidebook's publication in 1888.</p>
+
+<table class = "toc" summary = "list of maps">
+<tr>
+<td></td>
+<td class = "number smallroman">PAGE</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#map1"><b>Sketch Map of the Riviera and Corsica</b></a>,
+showing the relative position of their principal towns; as also the
+ports connected with each other by steamboat</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><i>Fly-leaf</i></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#map2"><b>General Map of Corsica</b></a></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page1">1</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#map3"><b>Plan of Ajaccio</b></a>.&mdash;The town is built on
+rising ground</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page3">3</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#map4"><b>Environs of Ajaccio</b></a></p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page6">6</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#map5"><b>The Western Central Region.</b></a>&mdash;This is
+the least known and the most difficult portion of the island to
+traverse. Yet easy and picturesque short excursions may be made from
+Porto, Evisa and Galeria, into the forests of evergreen oaks,
+etc</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page20">20</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><p>
+<a href = "#map6"><b>Central Corsica</b></a>, or the most troublesome
+part of the grand highway, which traverses Corsica from south to north,
+from Sartène to Ponte alla Leccia, whence it ramifies eastward to Bastia
+and westward to Calvi and Ile Rousse. It joins the railway and the road
+between Ajaccio and Corté near Vivario</p></td>
+<td class = "number"><a href = "#page27">27</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">1</span>
+<a name = "page1" id = "page1"> </a>
+<!--png 016-->
+<h4 class = "chapter boldf"><a name = "corsica" id =
+"corsica">CORSICA</a></h4>
+
+<table class = "floatright" summary = "map with caption">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<!--png 017-->
+<p class = "illustration">
+<a name = "map2" id = "map2"> </a>
+<a href = "images/map2.png">
+<img src = "images/map2thumb.png" width = "231" height = "439"
+alt = "Corsica" title = "Corsica"></a></p>
+<p class = "caption"> <!--changed paragraph format-->
+Corsica<br>
+<a href = "images/map2.png">&mdash; larger view
+&mdash; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Is situated 54 miles W. from Leghorn, 98&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. from Genoa,
+and 106&nbsp;m. S.E. from Nice. It is <a name = "corsica_dimensions" id
+= "corsica_dimensions">116&nbsp;m. long, 52&nbsp;m. broad</a>, and
+contains an area of 3376 square miles; divided into 5 arrondissements,
+subdivided into 62 cantons, and these again into 363 communes, with a
+population of 275,000. The surface, of which little more than a tenth is
+under cultivation, is composed of lofty and rugged granite mountain
+chains, diverging in all directions from the culminating peaks of Mounts
+<a name = "mt_cinto1" id = "mt_cinto1">Cinto</a>, 8892 ft.; <a name =
+"mt_rotondo1" id = "mt_rotondo1">Rotondo</a>, 8613 ft.; <a name =
+"mt_pagliorba" id = "mt_pagliorba">Pagliorba</a>, 8278 ft.; <a name =
+"mt_padro1" id = "mt_padro1">Padro</a>, 7846 ft.; and <a name = "mt_oro"
+id = "mt_oro">Oro</a>, 8829 ft. On the western and southern sides of the
+island these ranges terminate abruptly on the shore, or run out into the
+sea; while, on the eastern side, a great undulating plain intervenes
+between their termination and the coast, in summer troubled with
+malaria, but in a less degree than formerly.</p>
+
+<p>Corsica is the central region of the great plant system of the
+Mediterranean. Among the many fine forests which cover the mountains,
+the most important are those of Valdoniello, Filosorma, Vizzavona Verde,
+Zonza, Bavella, Ometa and Calenzana. They contain noble specimens of
+pines, oaks, beech, chestnut, walnut and olive trees. The cork oak forms
+woods, chiefly in the south of the island. The <a name = "chestnut1" id
+= "chestnut1">chestnut trees</a> are as large and fruitful as the best
+on the Apennines, and the nuts form the staple article of food for man
+and beast during the winter months. Indeed, these glorious chestnut and
+beech forests, when in full foliage, are the grand features of Corsican
+scenery, which therefore cannot be seen to advantage till towards the
+end of May, and if to this we add the splendid bloom of the oleanders,
+not till July. “I at any rate know of no such combination of sea and
+mountains, of the sylvan beauty of the north with the rich colours of
+the south; no region where within so small a space nature takes so many
+sublime and exquisite aspects as she does in Corsica. Palms, orange
+groves, olives, vines, maize and chestnuts; the most picturesque beech
+forests, the noblest pine woods in Europe; granite peaks, snows and
+frozen lakes&mdash;all these are brought into the compass of a day’s
+journey. Everything is as novel to the Alpine climber as if, in place of
+being on a fragment of the Alps, severed only by 100 miles from their
+nearest snows, he was in a different continent.�&mdash;D.&nbsp;W.
+Freshfield, Alpine Club.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">2</span>
+<a name = "page2" id = "page2"> </a>
+<!--png 018-->
+
+<p class = "headnote">
+<span class = "headnote">Vegetation.</span></p>
+
+<p>The prickly pear, the American aloe, the castor-oil plant and the
+fig-tree, grow wild along the coast; while a little farther upwards, on
+the slopes and plateaus, the arbutus, cistus, oleander, myrtle and
+various kinds of heaths, form a dense coppice, called in the island
+maqui, supplying an excellent covert for various kinds of game and
+numerous blackbirds. When the arbutus and myrtle berries are ripe the
+blackbirds are eagerly hunted, as at that time they are plump and make
+very savoury and delicate eating.</p>
+
+<p>There are few cows on the island, the greater part of the milk supply
+being procured from goats. It is excellent, and has no rank flavour.</p>
+
+<p>The only remarkable creature is the <a name = "mouflon" id =
+"mouflon">mouflon</a>, a species of sheep, resembling that almost
+extinct animal the bouquetin or ibex of the Alps. It inhabits the
+highest mountains, and though very wild is easily tamed.</p>
+
+<p>The best red <a name = "wines2" id = "wines2">wines</a> are grown
+about Ajaccio, Tallano, Cervione and Sartene, and the best white wines
+in Sari and in the valleys of Cape Corso. They improve up to twenty
+years, and even up to fifty.</p>
+
+<p>The temperature of the <a name = "climate" id = "climate">climate of
+Corsica</a> varies according to the elevation. Along the coast the sun
+is warm even in January. After January the temperature rises rapidly.
+The climate of the zone 2000 ft. above the sea is considerably colder
+and snow generally appears there in December. The olive ripens its fruit
+up to an elevation of 2000 ft. and the chestnut to 3000, where it gives
+place to oaks, box trees, junipers, firs and beeches. The greater part
+of the population inhabits the region of the chestnut trees, in villages
+scattered over the mountain slopes, valleys and tablelands.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ajaccio_steamers" id =
+"ajaccio_steamers">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Steamboats.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<b>Steamers to Corsica.</b>&mdash;For invalids the easiest way is by the
+large weekly Tunis steamer of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, 12
+R. de la Republique, which on its way from and to Marseilles, touches at
+Ajaccio, 211&nbsp;m. S., in 16 to 19 hrs., fare including meals, 38 frs.
+The Compagnie Insulaire, 29 R. Cannebière, have boats every week for
+Ajaccio and Propriano, 38 frs., Calvi and Ile Rousse, 28 frs., Bastia
+and Leghorn, 32 frs., and Nice, Bastia and Leghorn. Weekly steamers
+between Genoa, Leghorn and Bastia. The boats of the Compagnie Insulaire
+being smaller, come within a few yards of the mole. The luggage is
+landed from the steamers by the company free of expense and is delivered
+at the custom-house to the proprietor on presentation of the bulletin de
+baggage. Passengers are taken ashore and to their hotels for 2&nbsp;frs.
+each.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The Navigazione Generale Italiana, Piazza Marini, Genoa, have a steamer
+every week for Portotorres, at the north-west extremity of <ins class =
+"correction" title = "error for Sardinia">Sicily</ins>, calling at
+Bastia. Also from Leghorn to Bastia. Distance 72 miles, fare 20 frs.,
+time 7 hrs.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Small steamer between Ajaccio and Propriano twice weekly.</p>
+
+
+
+<!--png 020-->
+<p class = "illustration">
+<a name = "map3" id = "map3" href = "images/map3.png">
+<img src = "images/map3thumb.png" width = "442" height = "311"
+alt = "Ajaccio" title = "Ajaccio"></a></p>
+
+<p class = "caption">
+Ajaccio<br>
+<a href = "images/map3.png">&mdash; larger view &mdash;</a></p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">3</span>
+<a name = "page3" id = "page3"> </a>
+<!--png 019-->
+
+<h4 class = "sans"><a name = "ajaccio" id = "ajaccio">AJACCIO.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "ajaccio_hotels" id =
+"ajaccio_hotels"><i>Hotels.</i></a>&mdash;On an eminence, in its own
+grounds, rising gently from the sea, is the <b>*Grand Hotel</b>, with
+sea and fresh water baths and every convenience; opened at the end of
+the present year. A skilled English physician on the premises.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+There are besides three good family hotels, charging from 8&nbsp;to 12
+frs.; in the Course Grandval, the H.&nbsp;Continental, wine 1½&nbsp;fr.,
+carpeted brick floors, garden; near it, with south exposure and full
+view of the bay, the *H.&nbsp;Suisse or Schweizerhof, wine 1&nbsp;fr.,
+smooth wood floors, partially carpeted, garden; at the top of the Course
+Grandval, the H.&nbsp;Bellevue, wine 1¼&nbsp;fr., partially carpeted
+wood floors, garden.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+These prices include coffee or tea in the morning, meat breakfast and
+dinner and service, but neither candles nor wine, of which the lowest
+price per bottle is given above. In the Place Bonaparte is the
+H.&nbsp;de France, a good French hotel, pension 8&nbsp;to 12 frs.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "ajaccio_bankers" id = "ajaccio_bankers"><i>Bankers and
+Money-changers.</i></a>&mdash;The bank Bozzo-Costa and the bank Lanzi,
+both near each other in the Boulevard Roi Jerome.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The office of the Compagnie Transatlantique is in the same Boulevard;
+the office of the Compagnie Insulaire is in the Place du Marché.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "ajaccio_cabs" id = "ajaccio_cabs"><i>Cabs.</i></a>&mdash;The
+course 1½ fr., the hour 2&nbsp;frs., the day 25 frs.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "ajaccio_drives" id = "ajaccio_drives">Tariff of return
+drives</a>, with 2 frs. extra for every hour of repose.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<i>West</i> from Ajaccio: Scudo, 5 frs.; Vignola 1114 ft., 15 frs.;
+Vignola village, 10 frs.; Lisa, 15 frs.; Iles Sanguinaires, 10 frs.; St.
+Antoine, 5&nbsp;frs.; Salario, 5&nbsp;frs. <i>North</i> from Ajaccio:
+Castelluccio, 4&nbsp;frs.; Mezzavia, 5&nbsp;frs.; Alata and Col
+Carbinica, 25 frs.; Afa, 20 frs.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<i>East</i> from Ajaccio: the Campo dell’ Oro, or the plain at the mouth
+of the Gravona, 5&nbsp;frs.; the Baths of Caldaniccia, 5&nbsp;frs.;
+Bastelicaccia, 5&nbsp;frs.; Pisciatella, 6&nbsp;frs. Three frs. gratuity
+for a whole day. The horses cover on an average about thirty miles a
+day.</p>
+
+<p>AJACCIO, pop. 19,050, the capital of Corsica, is situated on the
+extremity of a small gulf 677 miles from Paris and 15 to 20 hours’ sail
+from Marseilles. Founded in 1492 by the Bank of St. George of Genoa, a
+commercial association similar to the East India Company, it was raised
+in 1811 through the influence of Madame Letitia and Cardinal Fesch to
+the dignity of capital of the island, and became accordingly the
+residence of the Préfet and the seat of the civil and ecclesiastical
+Courts. Ajaccio has a handsome <a name = "ajaccio_episcopal" id =
+"ajaccio_episcopal">Episcopal chapel</a> built by Miss Campbell, of
+Moniack Castle, Scotland, an accomplished lady, the authoress of a work
+on the island in French and English.</p>
+
+<p>In the Cours Napoleon is a small French <a name = "ajaccio_mission"
+id = "ajaccio_mission">mission</a>, whose worthy pastor, besides
+conducting the regular Sunday services, gives two lectures (conferences)
+every week, which are attended by from 80 to 100 people.</p>
+
+<p>The houses in Ajaccio, as well as those throughout the island, are
+generally built in large square blocks of from 3 to 5 stories, each
+story forming a separate dwelling.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">4</span>
+<a name = "page4" id = "page4"> </a>
+<!--png 021-->
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ajaccio_napoleon" id =
+"ajaccio_napoleon">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Napoleon’s Birthplace.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>The mole at which passengers land from the steamers is at the foot of
+the Place du Marché. In the centre of this “Place� is a fountain
+ornamented with lions and a white marble statue of Napoleon I. by
+Laboureur. To the left of the statue is the Hotel de Ville, the markets,
+and the commencement of the Rue Fesch, in which is the edifice
+containing the public library, the museum, and the memorial chapel (<a
+href = "#ajaccio_memorial">p.&nbsp;5</a>); while to the right is the Rue
+Napoleon, in which the first opening right leads into the Place Letitia.
+A little beyond this opening is No. 17, the house of the <a name =
+"ajaccio_pozzo" id = "ajaccio_pozzo">Pozzo di Borgo</a> family, of whom
+Charles André, 1768-1842, was the great upholder of Paoli and the bitter
+enemy of Napoleon I. Napoleon’s house, though not equal to that of the
+Borgo family, was one of the best in Ajaccio. It is well built, of three
+stories of six windows each, and all the rooms have a more or less
+handsome marble chimney-piece. Over the door is inscribed on white
+marble “Napoleon est né dans cette maison le <span class =
+"smallroman">XV</span> Aovt <span class =
+"smallroman">MDCCLXIX</span><ins class = "correction" title =
+"close quote missing">�. </ins>A good staircase, bordered by a wrought-iron
+railing, leads to the top. The rooms shown are on the first floor. The
+first is the parlour, with a small table, a few chairs, and a piano said
+to have belonged to Mme. Letitia. Then after having passed through a
+small chamber we enter the room in which Napoleon was born, into which
+Madame was brought hurriedly from the church in the sedan chair kept in
+the end room. Over the chimney-piece are portraits of the father and
+mother. Then follows the dining-room, and after it the drawing-room,
+with inlaid wood floor and six windows on both sides. The floors of all
+the other rooms are of glazed tiles. In the next room is the sedan
+chair. Fee for party 1&nbsp;fr.</p>
+
+<p>This now silent and empty house was once enlivened and brightened by
+the fair Letitia and her large family of children, just like other men’s
+children; schoolboys toiling at their Plutarch or Cæsar, and their three
+young sisters growing up careless and rather wild, like their
+neighbours’ daughters, in the half-barbarous island town. There is
+Joseph, the eldest, then Napoleon, the second born, then Lucien, Louis,
+and Jerome; then Caroline, Eliza, and Pauline, the children of a notary
+of moderate income, who is incessantly and vainly carrying on law-suits
+with the Jesuits of Ajaccio to gain a contested estate which is
+necessary to his numerous family. Their future fills him with anxiety;
+what will they be in the world and how will they secure a comfortable
+subsistence? And behold! these same children, one after the other, take
+to themselves the mightiest crowns of the earth&mdash;tear them from the
+heads of the most unapproachable kings of Europe and wear them in the
+sight of
+<span class = "pagenum">5</span>
+<a name = "page5" id = "page5"> </a>
+<!--png 021-->
+all the world; and they, the sons of an Ajaccio lawyer, cause themselves
+to be embraced as brothers and brothers-in-law by emperors and kings.
+Napoleon is European Emperor; Joseph King of Spain; Louis King of
+Holland; Jerome King of Westphalia; Caroline Queen of Naples and Pauline
+and Eliza Princesses of Italy. In 1793, after the flight of Madame
+Letitia and her children to her country residence, the Casone, the house
+was pillaged by the Corsicans opposed to the French Republic.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ajaccio_cathedral" id =
+"ajaccio_cathedral">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Cathedral.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>Near the Place Letitia is the cathedral built in the 16th century by
+Pope Gregory. It contains the font at which Napoleon I. was baptized on
+the 21st July 1771.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ajaccio_memorial" id =
+"ajaccio_memorial">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Memorial Chapel.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>In the Rue Fesch is the College founded in 1822. In one wing of the
+edifice is the <a name = "ajaccio_library" id = "ajaccio_library">public
+library</a>, with 33,000 volumes, founded by Lucien Bonaparte, and the
+museum and <a name = "ajaccio_picture" id = "ajaccio_picture">picture
+gallery</a>, with 900 paintings, mostly copies; and in the other the
+memorial chapel built by Napoleon III., lined with beautiful marble. In
+the crypt under the transept, left hand, is the tomb of Marie Letitia
+Ramolino, died at Rome in 1836; and right hand, that of Napoleon’s
+uncle, Cardinal Fesch, died at Rome in 1839. Both bodies were brought to
+this, their present resting-place, in 1851. There are, besides, the
+tombs of Prince Charles and of Zenaida his daughter. Napoleon’s father
+died in 1785 and is buried at Montpellier. Madame was only 35 at his
+death and had already borne him 13 children, 5 of whom were dead, and
+Jerome was an infant in the cradle.</p>
+
+<p>Parallel with the Rue Fesch is the Cours Napoleon, by which all the
+diligences enter and leave the town. The continuation round the bay is
+bordered with plane trees. At the commencement is a bronze statue of
+“E.&nbsp;C. Abbatucci né à Zicavo le 12 Novembre 1770, mort pour la
+patrie le 2&nbsp;Decembre 1796.� Near it is the railway station.</p>
+
+<p>At the western end of the Cours Napoleon is the Place Bonaparte or
+Diamant, bordered with trees and ornamented with a complicate bronze
+monument on a granite pedestal by Violet le Duc, “à la memoire de
+Napoleon&nbsp;I. et de ses frères Joseph, Lucien, Louis, Jerome.� All
+are life-size statues; Napoleon is on horseback, the others on foot,
+marching solemnly towards the sea.</p>
+
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ajaccio_excursions" id =
+"ajaccio_excursions">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Walks.</span></a></p>
+
+<h5 class = "boldf">EXCURSIONS.</h5>
+
+<p>From the port, 11 m. W., is the chapel S. Antonio, 850 ft. The road
+passes the penitentiary of S.&nbsp;Antonio, 331 ft. North from it, under
+the peak of La Barrage, 1476 feet, is the Castelluccio penitentiary.
+Westward by the Hospice Eugenie and the Batterie de Maestrello, a
+<span class = "pagenum">6</span>
+<a name = "page6" id = "page6"> </a>
+<!--png 023-->
+pleasant road leads along the coast to the orange gardens of Barbicaja,
+passing by the Chapelle de Greco and the cemetery. About 4&nbsp;m.
+farther is the Tête Parata, 199 ft., opposite the Iles Sanguinaires.</p>
+
+<p>A beautiful road, the continuation of the Cours Grandval, ascends
+2½&nbsp;m. to the <a name = "salario" id = "salario">Fontaine du
+Salario</a>, 760 ft., commanding enchanting views. This road traverses
+the Place Casone, 144 ft., occupying the site of the Casone, the country
+house of the Bonapartes, destroyed in 1878. Close by is the “grotte
+Napoleon,� composed of blocks of granite, to which, it is said, the
+youthful Napoleon used to retire.</p>
+
+<p>About 6 m. N. from Ajaccio is the village of Alata, 1312 ft. Within
+an easy walking distance north from Ajaccio is the pleasant estate of <a
+name = "carrosaccia" id = "carrosaccia">Carrosaccia</a>, on the canal
+which supplies the town with water from the Gravona. 5½&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N.
+from Ajaccio are the <a name = "caldaniccia" id =
+"caldaniccia">sulphurous springs of Caldaniccia</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ajaccio_sepul" id = "ajaccio_sepul">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Family Tombs.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>In the neighbourhood of Ajaccio and of the other Corsican towns and
+villages are numerous family sepulchral chapels enclosed within walls. A
+more pleasing characteristic feature, probably inherited from the Moors,
+are the numerous <a name = "ajaccio_fountains" id =
+"ajaccio_fountains">fountains</a> in the villages and by the road side,
+whence flow streams of cold, sparkling water of exquisite purity.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ajaccio_climate" id =
+"ajaccio_climate">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Climate.</span></a></p>
+
+<p><i>Climate.</i>&mdash;For convalescent invalids, Ajaccio forms a
+delightful change from the Riviera, as it is so rural, and has such
+pleasant air and good water. The hotels are comfortable and their
+charges moderate. As, too, the road metal used around Ajaccio is that
+disintegrating granite which so readily solidifies by the combined
+action of the rain and traffic, there is very little dust in the
+neighbourhood (<a href = "#granite">p.&nbsp;9</a>).</p>
+
+<p>The principal winds are the Libeccio or S.W. wind, the Sirocco or
+S.E. wind, and the Mistral or N.W. wind.</p>
+
+<p>On the 12th, 13th and 14th of May the fair of <a name =
+"ajaccio_pancras" id = "ajaccio_pancras">St. Pancras</a> is held, which
+affords a good opportunity for purchasing Corsican horses. They are from
+10 to 14 hands high and of great endurance. It is wonderful to behold
+the energy these small slim creatures display in dragging heavy
+lumbering diligences up long, steep, winding roads.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "ajaccio_water" id = "ajaccio_water">But more wonderful
+still</a> is it to see the peasant women and girls as young as thirteen
+carrying on their heads up and down the mountain paths big pails, or the
+more elegant two-handled brass jars of classic form, containing about
+two gallons of water, without ever stumbling on any of the many stones.
+The pails are made of copper lined with tin, weighing when full of water
+from 55 lbs. to 65 lbs.</p>
+
+<p>Among the <a name = "ajaccio_curio" id =
+"ajaccio_curio">curiosities</a> of Ajaccio are gourds made into bottles,
+of various shapes and sizes and mounted with silver, and the pretty
+baskets made of straw by the girls of Alata.</p>
+
+
+<!--png 024-->
+<p class = "illustration">
+<a name = "map4" id = "map4" href = "images/map4.png">
+<img src = "images/map4thumb.png" width = "479" height = "290"
+alt = "Environs of Ajaccio" title = "Environs of Ajaccio"></a></p>
+
+<p class = "caption">
+Environs of Ajaccio<br>
+<a href = "images/map4.png">&mdash; larger view &mdash;</a></p>
+
+<div class = "itinerary">
+
+<span class = "pagenum">7</span>
+<a name = "page7" id = "page7"> </a>
+<!--png 025-->
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "ajaccio_to_bastia" id =
+"ajaccio_to_bastia">
+Ajaccio to Bastia.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Ajaccio to Bocognano by rail, thence by diligence to Corté; Corté to
+Bastia by rail 47&nbsp;m., or 44 by road. The road from Ajaccio ascends
+the valley of the Gravona to its source at the Col Vizzavona. On the N.
+side of the Col it follows the course of the Vecchio. The most
+picturesque part of this route is between Vizzavona and Vivario.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
+<span class = "miles to">95</span>
+AJACCIO. Start from the station in the Cours Napoleon. The road, after
+traversing the fertile plain of Campo dell Oro, crosses the Col
+Sudricchio, 804 ft., and then the bridge of <a name = "ucciani" id =
+"ucciani">Ucciani</a>, 948 ft., built in the reign of Louis XIV.,
+17½&nbsp;m. from Ajaccio and 2&nbsp;m. from the village of Ucciani. Use
+<a href = "#map2">general map</a>, and <a href = "#map6">map,
+p.&nbsp;27</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "bocognano" id = "bocognano">
+<span class = "headnote">Bocognano.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">25</span>
+<span class = "miles to">70</span>
+BOCOGNANO pop. 2000, and 2120 ft. above the sea. <i>Inn:</i> Univers.
+Picturesquely situated in a plantation of chestnut trees, surrounded by
+high mountain peaks. Near Bocognano commences the Vizzavona tunnel, 4375
+yards through the mountain. Diligence now to Corté. The road, having
+crossed the Sellola bridge, 2843 ft., winds its way up by the Col de
+Pinzalone, 3370 ft., and the Maison and Pont de Lavatoggio 3615 ft. to
+the top of the ridge. See <a href = "#map6">map, p.&nbsp;27</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "vizzavona" id = "vizzavona">
+<span class = "headnote">Vizzavona.&mdash;Pines.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">31</span>
+<span class = "miles to">64</span>
+LE FORT DE VIZZAVONA on the summit of the Pass, 3813 ft. above the sea,
+with the Gendarmerie and a few houses of refuge. A few miles northwards
+is Monte d’Oro, 7845 ft., and southwards <a name = "mt_renoso7" id =
+"mt_renoso7">Monte Renoso</a>, 7733 ft. The diligence, in its descent to
+Vivario, traverses the forest of Vizzavona, consisting mainly of beeches
+and larches, frequently 150 ft. high. <a name = "pines" id = "pines">Of
+this tree there are two varieties</a>, the <a name = "pinuspinaster" id
+= "pinuspinaster"><i>Pinus pinaster</i></a> or cluster pine, the <i>Pin
+maritime</i> of the French, which grows best on deep loose soils and
+flourishes even on the drifting sands of the sea shore. They supply
+large quantities of resin. Their wood being soft, coarse and perishable,
+is usually converted into charcoal and lamp black. The other is the <a
+name = "pinuslaricio" id = "pinuslaricio"><i>Pinus laricio</i></a>,
+which thrives on the high lands of Corsica, Spain, south of France,
+Greece and Cyprus. Their growth is rapid, the trunk straight and from
+100 to 150 ft. high, the branches are in regular whorls, forming in
+large trees a pyramidal head, and the leaves are slender, from 4 to 7
+inches long, and of a dark green tint. The timber is good and durable,
+though less strong than that of the <i>Pinus silvestris</i>. Between the
+51st and 53d <ins class = "correction"
+title = "inconsistency in original">kilomètre stones</ins>
+are passed the “Maison de Refuge
+d’Alzarella,� and the “Maison de refuge Omellina,� 2832&nbsp;ft.</p>
+
+<p>After crossing the Col de Campo di Lupo, 2684 ft., 35&nbsp;m. from
+Ajaccio, the road descends into the ravine of the Vecchio, above
+which&nbsp;is</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">8</span>
+<a name = "page8" id = "page8"> </a>
+<!--png 026-->
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "vivario" id = "vivario">
+<span class = "headnote">Vivario.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">38</span>
+<span class = "miles to">57</span>
+VIVARIO pop. 1500, and 2152 ft. <i>Inn:</i> H.&nbsp;Voyageurs a
+three-storied house. Junction with road to Zicavo, 37&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S.
+(<a href = "#zicavo27">pp. 27</a>, <a href = "#vivario29">29</a>).
+Although Vivario be a poor village, yet it has a terrace and fountain
+ornamented with a statue of Diana. The breeding of pigs fed in the
+adjoining chestnut forest, and the manufacture of hams, sausages and
+bacon, are the most important industries of the inhabitants.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+From Vivario a forest road extends 27&nbsp;m. S.E. to the hamlet of <a
+name = "vadina" id = "vadina">Vadina</a>, by Muracciole 2022 ft.,
+1½&nbsp;m., the <a name = "col_erbajo8" id = "col_erbajo8">Col
+Erbajo</a> 3018 ft., 7&nbsp;m.; Pietroso 10½&nbsp;m., Saparelli
+12½&nbsp;m., and Quinzena 18&nbsp;m. From Vadina a good carriage road
+leads 6&nbsp;m. <a name = "vivario_to_pietrapola" id =
+"vivario_to_pietrapola">to the Baths of Pietrapola</a>, which are
+supplied by most copious springs of hot, saline, sulphurous water. The
+season is from May 1 to June 30; or September&nbsp;1 to November 30. The
+situation is beautiful and the bathing-establishment and lodging
+accommodation comfortable, and much frequented.</p>
+
+<p>The road from Vivario to Serraggio passes along the top of the rocky
+gorge of the foaming Vecchio. The best view of the gorge is from the
+Pont du Vecchio 40&nbsp;m. from Ajaccio and 280 ft. above the bed. From
+<a name = "serraggio8" id = "serraggio8">Serraggio</a>, 1890 ft., Mt
+d’Oro is well seen. See <a href = "#map5">map, p.&nbsp;20</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The road now passes <a name = "lugo" id = "lugo">Lugo</a>, 1980 ft.;
+S.&nbsp;Pietro, 2496 ft.; the Col. S.&nbsp;Nicolo, 2473 ft.; and
+Casanova, 2136&nbsp;ft.,&nbsp;to</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "corte" id = "corte">
+<span class = "headnote">Corté.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">51</span>
+<span class = "miles to">44</span>
+CORTÉ 1329 ft., pop. 5500. <i>Hotels:</i> *Paoli, 8 to 10 frs., Europe.
+Is situated at the junction of the Tavignano with the Restonico, in the
+midst of majestic mountains of the most varied form. The citadel or
+château, built in the early part of the 15th century, stands on
+precipitous and jagged rocks rising from the Tavignano, commanding from
+the top a magnificent view of the wild surrounding scenery. In the
+“Place� is a statue of Paoli, the Corsican patriot, born at Stretta in
+1726, and to the right of the statue the post and telegraph office. In
+the immediate neighbourhood stands a large house, a Franciscan convent,
+in which the Corsican parliament assembled in Paoli’s time. Near Corté,
+by the left side of the Restonico, is a quarry of marble of a bluish
+tint with reddish white veins. To take the walk up the gorge of the
+Restonico, descend by first road left up the main street from the hotels
+and cross only the Tavignano bridge. The mountain appearing to close the
+valley is Mte. Rotondo. See <a href = "#map5">map, p.&nbsp;20</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Coach to Aleria, 31&nbsp;m. S.E. (<a href =
+"#aleria_to_corte">p.&nbsp;33</a>), by a beautiful road.</p>
+
+<p>Just outside Corté the rail traverses the Torretta tunnel, 1531
+yards.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "mt_rotondo8" id = "mt_rotondo8">
+<span class = "headnote">Mte.&nbsp;Rotondo.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "corte_to_mt_rotondo" id = "corte_to_mt_rotondo">From Corté
+the ascent of Monte Rotondo</a> is most easily effected. It is 8613 feet
+above the sea-level, or 7284 feet above Corté. Cabins inhabited by the
+herdsmen are scattered over the declivities of the mountain up to within
+3000 feet of the top. Time 2 days. Guide
+<span class = "pagenum">9</span>
+<a name = "page9" id = "page9"> </a>
+<!--png 027-->
+with mule 25 frs. Ascend by the road up the picturesque valley of the
+Restonico to the Timozzo bridge, 3590 feet, and 2½ hours from Corté.
+From this the path extends 1½ hour up the wild ravine of the Timozzo to
+the shepherds’ huts; whence the rest must be done on foot. Now the hard
+work commences. Block lies above block, towering upwards and upwards in
+such endless masses of monotonous gray that the heart quails with the
+sight and the foot trembles to go farther. After about 2 hours’ scramble
+over these colossal steps the traveller reaches the fontaine de
+Triggione, about 2200 feet below the summit and in full view of it, an
+incomplete circle of steep jagged cliffs. About 330 feet higher is a
+little dark lake, the Lago di Monte Rotondo, encircled by gentle green
+slopes, where the night is generally spent. Snow-field extend from the
+lake to the summit, which, although apparently near, requires 2 full
+hours’ climbing to reach, often on hands and feet, over sharp fragments
+of rock, or up steep beds of slippery frozen snow. The extreme peak is a
+rugged obelisk of gray rock ending in a pinnacle. A way leads down by
+the S. side in 6 hours, to Guagno by lake <a name = "bettianella" id =
+"bettianella">Bettianella</a>, 3419 ft., then W. by the road over the <a
+name = "col_manganella" id = "col_manganella">Col de Manganella</a>,
+5874 ft. See <a href = "#map5">map, p.&nbsp;20</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "granite" id = "granite">
+<span class = "headnote">Granite.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+“The view from Monte Rotondo did not impress me. The central uplands,
+which form a large portion of it, are bare and arid, while the great
+ridge of Monte Cinto stretches across the northern horizon like a long
+screen. Comparatively little of the coast is seen in any direction, but
+most towards the west. It was curious to notice how completely the tops
+of the mountains between us and the Cinto ridge were flattened down,
+while the crest on which we stood was a set of bristling teeth. There
+are two kinds of granite in Corsica, one friable and unable to resist
+the action of the air, the other hard and defiant of the elements. Of
+this latter consist the Cinto range, Monte Rotondo and the rocks in the
+forest of Bavella.�&mdash;D.&nbsp;W. Freshfield, Alpine Club.</p>
+
+<p>The road now from Corté to Bastia traverses the Quilico Col, 1932
+ft., passes Soveria, 1843 ft., and Caporalino, 8&nbsp;m. from Corté, 36
+from Bastia and 1&nbsp;m. from Omessa. About 1½&nbsp;m. farther it
+crosses the Golo by the <a name = "francardo9" id =
+"francardo9">Francardo bridge</a>, 856 ft., where it meets the great
+Forest Road from Porto, 50&nbsp;m. S.W. by Evisa and the Col de Vergio,
+<a href = "#col_vergio">p.&nbsp;18</a>, and <a href = "#map5">map,
+p.&nbsp;20</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "leccia9" id = "leccia9">
+<span class = "headnote">Ponte Leccia.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">66</span>
+<span class = "miles to">29</span>
+PONTE ALLA LECCIA 624 ft. Village, and coach and railway station.
+<i>Inn:</i> Cyrnoz. Diligence to Calvi by the beautiful northern
+continuation of the road from Prunete by Cervione and <a name =
+"piedicroce9" id = "piedicroce9">Piedicroce</a>, <a href =
+"#leccia_to_calvi">p.&nbsp;20</a>. "Courrier" daily to Piedicroce,
+18&nbsp;m. S.E. by Morosaglia, see <a href =
+"#leccia_to_piedicroce">p.&nbsp;34</a>. During the summer heats Ponte
+alla Leccia is considered insalubrious.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "pontenovo" id = "pontenovo">
+<span class = "headnote">Ponte Novo.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">71</span>
+<span class = "miles to">24</span>
+PONTE NOVO. The site of the disastrous battle fought on the 9th of May
+1769, when the Corsicans lost their independence and
+<span class = "pagenum">10</span>
+<a name = "page10" id = "page10"> </a>
+<!--png 028-->
+became subject to France. The two small houses on the right bank, a
+little farther down the river, were Paoli’s headquarters. One month
+afterwards he, with some other Corsican refugees, sailed from Porto
+Vecchio in a British vessel for England (<a href =
+"#paoli">p.&nbsp;39</a>).</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "borgo" id = "borgo">
+<span class = "headnote">Borgo.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">85</span>
+<span class = "miles to">10</span>
+BORGO pop. 820. On the Mariana hills, rising from <a name = "biguglia"
+id = "biguglia">Lake Biguglia</a>, one of the many <a name =
+"coastlakes10" id = "coastlakes10">lagoons on the eastern coast</a>,
+separated from the sea by narrow sandbanks. Along this coast extend the
+only large plains in Corsica. Unfortunately, in summer they are subject
+to malaria, which, however, a judicious system of drainage is gradually
+abating. They are cultivated by Italian labourers who visit the island
+periodically. Between Borgo and Bastia is <a name = "bevinco" id =
+"bevinco">Bevinco</a>, with valuable marble quarries. Southward from
+Borgo on the coast is Mariana, the site of the colony founded by Marius
+(<a href = "#mariana">p.&nbsp;34</a>).</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "bastia" id = "bastia">
+<span class = "headnote">Bastia.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">95</span>
+BASTIA pop. 21,000. <i>Hotels:</i> *France; Europe; Lingenieur; Croix de
+Malte over the post and telegraph office, all in the Boul. du Palais,
+8&nbsp;to 10 frs. Theatre; Public Library with 65,000 volumes. <a name =
+"bastia_steamers10" id = "bastia_steamers10">Steamers</a> twice a week
+to Marseilles, time 18 hours, touching once a week at Nice, 12 hours
+distant. Fare direct to Marseilles, including food, 28 frs. To Nice,
+without food, 30 frs. Rubattino’s steamers leave three times a week for
+Leghorn; time 6&nbsp;hours. These same steamers proceed afterwards to
+Genoa. Railway to Corté. Rail also to Aleria, whence diligence to
+Bonifacio, Sartène and Ajaccio.</p>
+
+<p>Diligences daily from Bastia to Cap Corse, 7&nbsp;hours, 6&nbsp;or 5
+frs.; and also to Calvi, 12 hours, 13 or 10 frs.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "brando10" id = "brando10">
+<span class = "headnote">Brando.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>Carriages to visit the stalactite cave at Brando, 10 frs. Admission
+2&nbsp;frs. each. It is 7&nbsp;m. from Bastia, above Erbalunga, on the
+face of a mountain; and was discovered in 1841 by M.&nbsp;Ferdinandi. A
+steep path leads up to it. Keeper near cave. See <a href =
+"#brando12">p.&nbsp;12</a>.</p>
+
+<p><i>Bastia</i>, the most important city of Corsica, is built on ground
+rising gently from the sea. Facing the sea and the principal harbour is
+the Place St. Nicholas, adorned with a marble statue of Napoleon I., by
+Bartolini, looking towards the island of Elba. In this “Place�, the
+promenade of the town, are the offices of the Messageries Maritimes and
+of the Compagnie Insulaire. Fraissinet’s office is at the old harbour;
+whence also their steamers sail.</p>
+
+<p>From the Place St. Nicholas ascends the principal street, the
+Boulevard du Palais, to the Palais de Justice. In this Boulevard are the
+post and telegraph offices (whence most of the diligences start), the
+hotels, cafés and the best shops, and from it ramify the streets of the
+<span class = "pagenum">11</span>
+<a name = "page11" id = "page11"> </a>
+<!--png 029-->
+town. At the top of the B.&nbsp;du Palais commences, right hand, the
+Boul. Cardo, one of the best roads to take for views of the town and
+neighbourhood. A flight of steps leads from the quay up to the
+cathedral, a handsome building in the Italian style. The markets are
+held in the “Place� fronting the cathedral. Most of the houses are built
+in large blocks from 5 to 6 stories high and from 6 to 9 windows broad,
+each story forming a separate residence.</p>
+
+<p>Bastia owes its name to the bastion built here by the Genoese in the
+14th century. From the hills behind Bastia the view embraces the islands
+of Gorgona, Capraja, Elba, and Monte-Christo, seen best from the top of
+the Serra di Pigno, 3640 feet. Refer to <a href = "#map1">map on
+fly-leaf</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "bastia_steamers11" id =
+"bastia_steamers11">
+<span class = "headnote">Steamers.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>The most beautiful part of Corsica, and the most easily visited, is
+the eastern side, including the Castagniccia or the chestnut country,
+and the whole region up in the mountains, which border this coast. The
+wealthiest, most industrious and most enterprising of the people are
+those who inhabit that long narrow tongue of land called Cap Corse.
+Although boats are constantly sailing from Marseilles and Leghorn to
+Bastia, invalids visiting Corsica with the intention of wintering in
+Ajaccio should, if possible, sail from Marseilles or Nice direct to
+Ajaccio; but on leaving the island, when winter is over, Bastia is
+perhaps the best port to sail from, as it affords an excellent
+opportunity for visiting the most beautiful parts of Corsica and the
+most important towns in Italy. On arriving at Leghorn (see Black’s
+<i>South France</i>) it is best to proceed at once to the railway
+station, and start for Pisa, only 30 minutes distant. There are numerous
+trains. At the station and in the kiosques in the “Piazzas� of Leghorn,
+is sold an excellent little book with all the railway Time-tables,
+<i>L’Indicatore Ufficiale</i>, price 50&nbsp;c.</p>
+
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "corse" id = "corse">
+<span class = "headnote">Cap Corse.&mdash;Wine.</span></a></p>
+
+<h4 class = "sans">CAP CORSE.</h4>
+
+<h5 class = "boldf"><a name = "bastia_to_rogliano" id =
+"bastia_to_rogliano">Bastia to Rogliano and Morsaglia.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>See <a href = "#map2">General Map</a>, p.&nbsp;1.</h6>
+
+<p>By diligence, fare to Rogliano, 4 frs. and 3 frs., distance
+27½&nbsp;m., 6&nbsp;hrs. To Morsaglia, 5½ and 4½ frs., distance
+37½&nbsp;m., 8&nbsp;hrs. By the road skirting the eastern side of the
+peninsula of Cap Corse, the best cultivated part of the island, and
+containing the tidiest villages. The best Cap Corse <a name = "wines11"
+id = "wines11">wine</a>, mostly white, is produced around Luri and
+Rogliano. The quality used as table wine is drunk the first year. It
+improves till the fifth year, the better qualities till the tenth and
+twentieth year. Cap Corse is traversed by a rugged mountain range or
+serra, of which the
+<span class = "pagenum">12</span>
+<a name = "page12" id = "page12"> </a>
+<!--png 030-->
+culminating peaks are Mount Alticcione, 4230 feet; Mount Stello, 4536
+feet; and the Serra de Pigno, 3640 feet. From the east side of this
+rugged serra little fertile valleys extend to the sea.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "pino12" id = "pino12">
+<span class = "headnote">Pino.&mdash;Luri.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Mr. Freshfield thus describes the “Cap�:&mdash;“Down a promontory
+8&nbsp;to 10&nbsp;m. wide runs a range 3000 to 4000 ft. high, with the
+crest towards the western coast and the valleys towards the eastern.
+Hence the western Cornice road is a terrace along an always steep,
+sometimes sheer, mountain side, while the eastern crosses a succession
+of low maquis-covered spurs, which beyond Cap Sagro flatten and become
+monotonous. Pino is one of the most beautiful sites on the western
+coast. It is also important as the spot where the cross-road through the
+vale of Luri, under Seneca’s tower, falls into the western Cornice.
+Half-way on this road the village of <a name = "luri" id =
+"luri">Luri</a> groups itself in the most picturesque way imaginable on
+a hill-side broken by a deep ravine. Down on the seashore above the
+little Marina or port is a large convent; a church occupies a projecting
+brow 200 ft. above it; higher still, and right and left, every
+vantage-ground is occupied by groups of well-built villas and sepulchral
+chapels. The slopes are terraced into orchards of citron, lemon, peach
+and almond trees, olive groves and vineyards, sheltered from the gales
+of winter by high palisades.�</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Farther south, 5¼&nbsp;m., is <a name = "nonza" id = "nonza">Nonza</a>,
+with inn, 479 ft., pop. 550. Coach to St. Florent. This is one of the
+most curious villages of the island. It stands like an eagle’s nest,
+perched above the sea on a black rock on the mountain side. Its houses,
+built level with the edge of the cliffs, formed in olden days a
+sufficient rampart against marauders.</p>
+
+<p>The diligence having passed Lavasina 4½&nbsp;m. from Bastia, Brando
+7&nbsp;m., and <a name = "erbalunga" id = "erbalunga">Erbalunga</a>
+6¼&nbsp;m., halts at Sisco-port 9¼&nbsp;m. To visit the cave of <a name
+= "brando12" id = "brando12">Brando</a> take the steep narrow path left,
+near a mill, just before arriving at Erbalunga. Seats in shady places
+are placed here and there. The keeper’s house is close to the entrance.
+The diligence then proceeds by Pietracorbara 11½&nbsp;m., and the <a
+name = "torreallosse" id = "torreallosse">Torre all’Osse</a> 13&nbsp;m.;
+one of the best remaining specimens of the 85 towers built by the Pisans
+and Genoese to ward off the attacks of the Saracens. From the Torre the
+diligence proceeds other 2&nbsp;m. to Perticciolo, where it halts.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "senecastower" id = "senecastower">
+<span class = "headnote">Seneca’s Tower.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>Two miles farther is <a name = "st_severa" id =
+"st_severa">S.&nbsp;Severa</a>, where the horses are changed and the
+passengers breakfast. From S.&nbsp;Severa, a road ramifies
+10&nbsp;m.&nbsp;W. to Pino on the other side of the peninsula by the
+valley of the Luri, with vineyards and orange groves, passing the
+village of Luri 3½&nbsp;m., with good inn, the <a name = "col_st_lucie"
+id = "col_st_lucie">Col de S.&nbsp;Lucie</a> 7&nbsp;m., 1363 ft., and
+Saronese 9¾&nbsp;m. From the Santa Severa inn, Seneca’s tower is
+distinctly seen, at the head of the valley, on the summit of a
+precipitous peak, rising from the S. side of the Col, 1355 ft., from
+which a steep, stony path leads up
+<span class = "pagenum">13</span>
+<a name = "page13" id = "page13"> </a>
+<!--png 031-->
+to it, by a forsaken Franciscan convent. The view is grand. To this
+tower, one of the many watch-towers built in the 12th cent., Seneca
+could never have been sent, but to the Roman colony of Mariana, then
+used as a place of banishment for political offenders.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote">
+<span class = "headnote">Seneca.</span></p>
+
+<p>Lucius Annæus Seneca was born at Cordova in Spain, just before the
+commencement of the Christian era. His eldest brother was A. Seneca
+Novatus, which name was altered afterwards to that of his adopted
+father, Junius Gallio. This brother was the proconsul of Achaia, before
+whom St. Paul was arraigned (Acts xviii. 12). While Seneca was still a
+child he was brought by his aunt to Rome, where he had for teachers
+Sotion, Papirius Fabianus and Attalus the Stoic. Although weak in body
+he was a most diligent student, which, joined to his powerful memory,
+enabled him to obtain at an early age important offices. Before his
+banishment, <span class = "smallroman">A.D.</span>&nbsp;41, he had
+already served as quæstor. Having irritated Caligula, he would have been
+put to death, had not one of the mistresses of the emperor assured him
+that it was not worth while, as Seneca was so consumptive he would soon
+die a natural death.</p>
+
+<p>In the first year of the reign of Claudius, his wife Messalina having
+become jealous of the influence his niece Julia, daughter of Germanicus,
+had over Claudius her husband, succeeded in getting rid of her by
+imputing to her improper intimacy with Seneca, then a married man. For
+that reason Seneca was banished to Corsica <span class =
+"smallroman">A.D.</span>&nbsp;41.</p>
+
+<p>During his exile he wrote his consolatory letter to his mother
+Helvia, as well as a panegyric on Messalina and a consolatory letter to
+Polybius, ostensibly to condole with him on the loss of his brother; but
+in reality to get that powerful freedman to exert his influence with the
+emperor, to recall his sentence of exile. This letter is full of fulsome
+flattery and expressions unworthy of an honest man.</p>
+
+<p>After the death of Messalina, Claudius married his niece Agrippina,
+sister of Julia and mother of Nero by a former husband. Through her
+influence Seneca was recalled <span class =
+"smallroman">A.D.</span>&nbsp;49 and appointed a prætor and tutor to
+Nero, then 11 years old. In <span class =
+"smallroman">A.D.</span>&nbsp;51 Agrippina poisoned her
+husband.<br>&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "macinaggio13" id = "macinaggio13">
+<span class =
+"headnote">Macinaggio.&mdash;Rogliano.&mdash;Botticella.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>From <b>S. Severa</b>, the diligence, resuming its journey, passes
+Meria 20½&nbsp;m., and halts again at the port of Macinaggio 2½&nbsp;m.
+more. <a name = "rogliano" id = "rogliano">From this commences the steep
+ascent up to Rogliano</a> 1300&nbsp;ft., a&nbsp;town built in groups on
+the side of the mountain, among vineyards and olive and chestnut trees,
+the inn being in the second highest group, near the post-office.
+<span class = "pagenum">14</span>
+<a name = "page14" id = "page14"> </a>
+<!--png 032-->
+After Rogliano the diligence crosses the Cols S.&nbsp;Anne, Cappiaja and
+S.&nbsp;Nicholas, and <a name = "botticella" id = "botticella">arrives
+at Botticella</a> 31&nbsp;m., and then proceeds to <a name = "ersa" id =
+"ersa">Ersa</a> with inn, near the top of the <a name = "col_serra" id =
+"col_serra">Col de Serra</a> 1182 ft., commanding a good view of Cap
+Corse. Shortly afterwards the diligence arrives at <a name = "morsaglia"
+id = "morsaglia">Morsaglia</a>, called also <a name = "pecorile" id =
+"pecorile">Pecorile</a>, a village composed of groups of houses like
+Rogliano on the side of a hill. The conductor of the diligence will show
+the hotel. Six miles S. from Morsaglia is <a name = "pino14" id =
+"pino14">Pino</a>, see <a href = "#pino12">p.&nbsp;12</a>.</p>
+
+<p>From Botticella a road leads 4½&nbsp;m. N. to <a name = "barcaggio"
+id = "barcaggio">Barcaggio</a>, opposite the <a name = "giraglia" id =
+"giraglia">island of Giraglia</a>, on which is a first-class lighthouse,
+269 feet above the sea, seen within a radius of 14&nbsp;m.</p>
+
+<p>From Morsaglia the road is continued 31&nbsp;m. farther to the <a
+name = "col_st_bernardino" id = "col_st_bernardino">Col
+S.&nbsp;Bernardino</a> on the Bastia and St. Florent road, passing Pino,
+25&nbsp;m. from the Col S.&nbsp;Bernardino; Minerbio, 21½&nbsp;m.;
+Marinca, 16&nbsp;m.; <a name = "nonza14" id = "nonza14">Nonza</a>,
+9&nbsp;m.; Farinole, 2½&nbsp;m.; Pont du Patrimonio, 1¼&nbsp;m.; and
+joins the Bastia road at the Col S.&nbsp;Bernardino, 11¼&nbsp;m.&nbsp;W.
+from Bastia.</p>
+
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "bastia_to_calvi" id =
+"bastia_to_calvi">
+Bastia to Calvi.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>57 miles west; time 12 hours; fare 13 and 10 frs.</h6>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "col_teghime" id = "col_teghime">
+<span class = "headnote">Col Teghime.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "miles from">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
+<span class = "miles to">57</span>
+BASTIA. The road traverses a mountainous country, with scanty
+vegetation. As far as St. Florent the prevailing rocks are micaceous and
+beyond granitic. Immediately after leaving Bastia the diligence
+commences the ascent of the Col de Teghime (1785 feet) in the Serra di
+Pigno, discovering as it winds its way upwards, an ever-extending
+panorama over the great eastern plain, including Lake Biguglia, and the
+Mediterranean with the islands of Elba, Gorgona and Monte Christo. As
+the road descends towards the western shore, the enchanting panorama of
+the blue gulf of St. Florent, encircled by low reddish rocks, gradually
+unfolds itself. It was at this road, made by Count Marbœuf, at which, it
+is said, King Bernadotte worked among the other labourers. It passes the
+hamlets of Barbaggio and Patrimonio, the Col St. Bernardino 11¼&nbsp;m.
+from Bastia, and the Pont des Strette, and enters the valley of Nebbio,
+partly watered by the sluggish Aliso, flowing through a marsh crowded
+with oleanders.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "st_florent" id = "st_florent">
+<span class = "headnote">St.&nbsp;Florent.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "miles from">14¼</span>
+<span class = "miles to">42¾</span>
+ST. FLORENT, pop. 760. Hôtel de l’Europe, where a hurried breakfast can
+be had while the horses are being changed. Close to the village is the
+site of the ancient town of Nebbio, occupied now by a few poor houses
+and a small church, now a ruin, built in the 12th century. Napoleon
+said, “St. Florent has one of the finest situations I have ever seen. It
+lies most favourably for commerce, its landing
+<span class = "pagenum">15</span>
+<a name = "page15" id = "page15"> </a>
+<!--png 033-->
+places are safe and its roads can accommodate large fleets. I should
+have built there a large and beautiful city.� It was one of the first
+places to give adherence to the Bank of Genoa.</p>
+
+<p>The road now for some distance leaves the shore and ascends a range
+of barren hills containing slate, limestone and granite. Hardy trees
+become more abundant than the chestnut, and the mountains higher and
+more imposing, as we approach the little port&nbsp;of</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ilerousse" id = "ilerousse">
+<span class = "headnote">L’Ile Rousse.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "miles from">42</span>
+<span class = "miles to">15</span>
+L’ILE ROUSSE, pop. 1610; Hotel Europe. The diligence stops in the
+“Place� near the monument to Pascal Paoli, and remains a sufficient time
+to enable the traveller to cast a glance over the main features of this
+port, founded by Paoli in 1759. The street beyond the “Place� leads by
+the market to the harbour and to the long jagged tongue of red sandstone
+rocks projecting into the sea, bearing on the extreme point a lighthouse
+of the fourth order. Steamer every alternate week to Marseilles. There
+is a charming view from the eminence St. Reparata, crowned with a
+church, now abandoned.</p>
+
+<p>Inland from L’Ile Rousse is the fertile valley of Balagna, famous for
+the size and fertility of its olive trees (<a href =
+"#balagna">p.&nbsp;20</a>).</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "miles from">47</span>
+<span class = "miles to">10</span>
+<a name = "algajola" id = "algajola">ALGAJOLA</a>, pop. 200. The block
+of granite which forms the pedestal of the column in the Place Vendome
+came from the quarries of this place. Pillars 65 feet long can be
+procured from this quarry.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "lumio" id = "lumio">
+<span class = "headnote">Lumio.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "miles from">51</span>
+<span class = "miles to">6</span>
+LUMIO, pop. 1100, among orange groves and high cactus hedges. From the
+hills here there is a beautiful view of the valley and gulf of Calvi.
+Junction here with road to Corté, 55½ miles, south-east, passing through
+a charming and picturesque country (see <a href =
+"#leccia_to_calvi">p.&nbsp;20</a>).</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "calvi" id = "calvi">
+<span class = "headnote">Calvi.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">57</span>
+CALVI, pop. 2200. <i>Inns:</i> H.&nbsp;France, in the high town;
+*Colombani, in the low town, near the dil. office and the wharf. Steamer
+for Marseilles every alternate week. This, the nearest port to France,
+is composed of the Citadel or Haute Ville and the Port or Basse Ville.
+The former, although the residence of the public functionaries, has a
+dilapidated and forsaken appearance. A rough road, paved with blocks of
+granite, leads up to it and to the ramparts, commanding beautiful and
+extensive views. The houses, shops and streets of the Basse Ville are
+much better and more cheerful than those in the Citadel. Both are
+defended by Fort Mozzello, rising behind the harbour. On the
+Punta-Revellata is a lighthouse of the first order, with a fixed light
+seen 20 miles off. Eight miles S.E. from Calvi is <a name =
+"calenzana15" id = "calenzana15">Calenzana</a>, pop. 2900, with the
+chapel of S.&nbsp;Restituta, visited by pilgrims.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">16</span>
+<a name = "page16" id = "page16"> </a>
+<!--png 034-->
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "calvi_to_ajaccio" id =
+"calvi_to_ajaccio">
+Calvi to Ajaccio.</a></h5>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
+<span class = "miles to">102</span>
+Distance 102 miles S.E. The road skirts the coast the greater part of
+the way. The first village is <a name = "galeria" id =
+"galeria">Galeria</a>, pop. 500&mdash;<i>Inn:</i> Seta, 21 miles S. from
+Calvi. From Galeria the Route Forestière, No. 8, extends 16 miles
+eastwards to the Col Capronale, 4495 feet, in the forest of Ometa. Six
+miles from Galeria is the entrance to the <a name = "treccio" id =
+"treccio">forest of evergreen oaks of Treccio</a>, as well as the
+commencement of the road, 4½&nbsp;m. long, to the <a name = "perticato"
+id = "perticato">forest of Perticato</a> by the <a name = "col_erbajo16"
+id = "col_erbajo16">Col Erbajo</a>, 3½&nbsp;m., 2090 ft., and the Bocca
+Melza, 4½&nbsp;m. 2500&nbsp;ft.</p>
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "galeria_to_filosorma" id =
+"galeria_to_filosorma">
+Galeria to the Forests of Filosorma.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>Grand scenery. Guide necessary. <a href = "#map5">Map,
+p.&nbsp;20</a>.</h6>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+This, the forest road No. 8, has two ramifications. The main line
+follows the course of the Fango the whole way, and only becomes a
+mule-path when near the <a name = "maison_ometa" id =
+"maison_ometa">Maison de Cantonniers d’Ometa</a>, 14&nbsp;m.&nbsp;E.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+3¾&nbsp;m. from Galeria a mule-path ramifies from the road to the
+hamlets of Tuarelli, Prunicciole and Chiorna. 3&nbsp;m. farther is the
+ramification, 4½&nbsp;m. S., through the forest of Perticato by the Col
+d’Erbajo, 2090&nbsp;ft., 3½&nbsp;m. S., and the <a name = "boccamelza"
+id = "boccamelza">Bocca Melza</a>, 2500 ft., 4½&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. From the
+Bocca Melza a very bad path leads 2&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. to the hamlet of
+Pinito. At the beginning of the above ramification the main road enters
+the Ilex forest of Treccio, and leaves it nearly 2&nbsp;m.
+afterwards.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+8¾ m. from Galeria is a roadside inn, and 3¼&nbsp;m. farther the
+entrance into the Ilex forest of Ometa.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+11¼ m. from Galeria and about 2&nbsp;m. from the almost unknown <a name
+= "lonca" id = "lonca">valley of the Lonca</a>, an affluent of the
+Porto, is the Pont de Lancone, 1083 ft., across the Rocce. From this
+bridge there is a good view of <a name = "mt_tafonato16" id =
+"mt_tafonato16">Mt. Tafonato</a>, 7687 ft., to the N.E., with its
+singularly perforated peak.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+13¼ m. is the <a name = "ometa" id = "ometa">Grand Cassis d’Ometa</a>,
+1680 ft. A little farther the road becomes a bridle-path, and ascends
+from 1677 ft. to the Maison de Cantonniers d’Ometa, 2274 ft., and
+1&nbsp;m. farther is the end of the forest of Ometa.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+15 m. from Galeria is the Grand Cassis de Giargione, 1163 ft., and about
+2&nbsp;m. farther the summit of <a name = "col_capronale" id =
+"col_capronale">Col Capronale</a>, 4495 ft. A little way beyond, at the
+Capo Guagnerola, is a beautiful semicircle of reddish rocks covered with
+trees at the base. Farther E. by the Golo this forest road joins the
+forest road No.&nbsp;9 to Francardo (<a href =
+"#porto_to_francardo">p.&nbsp;18</a>).</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Having crossed the <a name = "col_castellaccio" id =
+"col_castellaccio">Col de Castellaccio</a>, 850 feet, and passed through
+the villages of Partinello and Vitriccia, 20&nbsp;m. from Galeria, we
+arrive&nbsp;at</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">51</span>
+<span class = "miles to">51</span>
+<a name = "porto" id = "porto">PORTO</a> (<i>Inn:</i> H.&nbsp;Padoram),
+occupying a pleasant and sheltered situation at the head of a fine gulf,
+with a climate rivalling that of Ajaccio. Most of the timber from the
+forests of Valdoniello and Perticato is shipped here. For Porto to Ponte
+Francardo, see <a href = "#porto_to_francardo">p.&nbsp;18</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The road from Porto to La Piana (<a href = "#map5">map, p.&nbsp;20</a>)
+affords a delightful
+<span class = "pagenum">17</span>
+<a name = "page17" id = "page17"> </a>
+<!--png 035-->
+drive, and exhibits good engineering. It is cut for a considerable
+distance through the rocks and cliffs and tall jagged peaks, like
+cypresses turned into stone, standing on the edge of this savage coast,
+parts of which are truly splendid. As the ascent is slowly continued,
+charming views disclose themselves, and on each side of the road the eye
+discerns some new beauty to dwell upon. At the Col Geneparo, to the
+right are the ruins of the castle of the Colonnas di Leca, rising boldly
+above the sea and surrounded and protected by magnificent natural
+battlements and pinnacles. Six miles from Porto, after having passed the
+Cols of Geneparo and Mezzano, both about 1250 feet, the traveller
+reaches</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "lapiana" id = "lapiana">
+<span class = "headnote">La Piana.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">58</span>
+<span class = "miles to">44</span>
+LA PIANA, 1587 feet, pop. 1280. <i>Inn:</i> H.&nbsp;France. Delightfully
+situated, with a fine sea-view. From the Col San Martino, 1&nbsp;m. from
+La Piana and 1630 feet above the sea, the landscape undergoes a rapid
+change. The magnificent rocks become parched and arid and the grass as
+yellow as the soil where it tries to grow.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "cargese" id = "cargese">
+<span class = "headnote">Cargésé.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">70</span>
+<span class = "miles to">32</span>
+CARGÉSÉ, pop. 1100. <i>Inn:</i> H.&nbsp;de Voyageurs. A large village at
+the foot of a hill which slopes down to the sea. It was founded by a
+colony of 730 Greeks, who, fleeing from the oppression of the Turks,
+arrived and settled here, by the permission of the Genoese, in March
+1676. For having refused to aid Paoli in 1755 against the Genoese their
+villages were burnt to the ground, and they themselves had to seek
+refuge in Ajaccio. After the cession of Corsica to the French in
+1769&nbsp;M. de Marbœuf had the village and church of Cargese built for
+the colonists, when they all returned. Greek is still spoken in the
+village, and it has a Greek as well as a Romanist priest.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "sagona" id = "sagona">
+<span class = "headnote">Sagona.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">79</span>
+<span class = "miles to">23</span>
+SAGONA, pop. 100. The port of Vico. It contains a few houses, one of
+which is the inn, where beds, bread, eggs, coffee and wine can be had.
+On the beach are generally large logs brought down from the forests for
+shipment. Junction with road to Vico 9¼ miles E. (see <a href =
+"#vico">p.&nbsp;23</a>), and also with the <a name = "sagona_to_aitone"
+id = "sagona_to_aitone">road extending 19 miles&nbsp;E. to the forest of
+Aïtone</a>, passing by the Col Vico, 7½&nbsp;m., 1607 ft.; Poggio,
+12½&nbsp;m.; the <a name = "col_sevi" id = "col_sevi">Col Sevi</a>, 3612
+ft., 13¼&nbsp;m.; <a name = "cristinacce" id =
+"cristinacce">Cristinacce</a>, 16½&nbsp;m.; and the <a name =
+"col_lacciola" id = "col_lacciola">Col Lacciola</a>, 3040 ft. in the
+forest. Five and a half miles from Sagona are the <a name = "caldanella"
+id = "caldanella">cold sulphurous springs of Caldanella</a>; efficacious
+as a tonic.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">87½</span>
+<span class = "miles to">14½</span>
+<a name = "calcatoggio" id = "calcatoggio">CALCATOGGIO</a>, pop. 670. A
+poor village on a hill above the road. From this the diligence shortly
+after commences the ascent of the <a name = "col_st_sebastien17" id =
+"col_st_sebastien17">Col <ins class = "correction"
+title = "also called ‘St. Sebastien’">Sebastien</ins></a>,
+1344 feet, 12 miles from Ajaccio.
+After the Col Sebastien, the road having passed over the Col Staggiola,
+930 feet, within a short distance of Appietto, situated on a hill;
+reaches</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "miles from">102</span>
+<a href = "#ajaccio">AJACCIO</a>, 102 miles south-west from
+Calvi.<br>&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">18</span>
+<a name = "page18" id = "page18"> </a>
+<!--png 036-->
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "porto_to_francardo" id =
+"porto_to_francardo">
+Porto to the Ponte Francardo.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>50 miles north-east. <a href = "#map5">Map, p.&nbsp;20</a>.</h6>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+This important forest road traverses the region of the highest mountains
+and of the greatest forests, passes through Albertacce, and by the other
+villages of the Canton of Calacuccia, and then proceeds to Francardo by
+the defile of the Golo.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "porto_to_evisa" id = "porto_to_evisa"><b>Porto to
+Evisa</b></a>, 13¾&nbsp;m., by an excellent carriage road wending
+through most picturesque mountain scenery. The road, after following the
+course of the Porto, crosses the stream Onda, ascends the ravine of the
+Cario, which it crosses 3&nbsp;m. from Porto under the Capo Polmonaccia,
+5627 ft. It now winds its way round little valleys into the narrow gorge
+of the Porto between dark red cliffs crowned with pinnacles.
+Nine&nbsp;m. from Porto is the ramification of the mule-path to <a name
+= "chidazzo" id = "chidazzo">Chidazzo</a>, and ½&nbsp;m. farther the
+ramification to Marignano. The road, after passing the chapelle
+S.&nbsp;Cyprien, enters <a name = "evisa18" id = "evisa18">Evisa</a>,
+pop. 1000; <i>Inn:</i> *H.&nbsp;Carrara; 2770 ft., on a high promontory
+projecting in the centre of a mountain-girt basin from the central range
+between two deep gulfs hollowed out to a depth of 2000 ft. Behind it
+rise pine forests to a broad mountain crest, the pass of the Niolo.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Evisa is admirably situated for excursions. A difficult winding path
+leads in 2½ hours down to the great walls of the dark granite ravine
+called the <a name = "spelunca" id = "spelunca">Spelunca</a>, at the
+confluence of the Aïtone with the Porto. Rambles and drives into the <a
+name = "aitone18" id = "aitone18">forest of Aïtone</a>, from which
+unfortunately the old stately pines have disappeared.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "evisa_to_albertacce" id = "evisa_to_albertacce"><b>Evisa to
+Albertacce</b></a>, 18&nbsp;m.&nbsp;E. The road traverses the forest of
+Aïtone with its vigorous beeches and young pines (<i>Pinus laricio</i>),
+whose stems are clear of branches from 80 to 100 ft. It is watered by
+the Porto and numerous brawling streams; which rush down steep ravines
+covered with moss and ferns. In the forest, 3&nbsp;m. from Evisa, by
+this road, is the <a name = "maison_aitone" id = "maison_aitone">Maison
+forestière d’Aïtone</a>, where those provided with introductions, see <a
+href = "#maison">p.&nbsp;41</a>, will find pleasant headquarters for
+grand excursions and fishing and botanical expeditions. 1¼&nbsp;m.
+farther is the <a name = "maison_tagnone" id = "maison_tagnone">house of
+the road menders (Cantonniers) of Tagnone</a>; where lodging can also be
+had.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The road having made several detours to get round the heads of ravines,
+ascends the <a name = "col_vergio" id = "col_vergio">Col de Vergio</a>
+4803 ft. on the great mountain chain separating the valley of the Golo
+from the valley of the Porto. About 230 ft. above the Col on the Cricche
+ridge, a little to the W., is an admirable view of <a name =
+"mt_tafonato18" id = "mt_tafonato18">Mt. Tafonato</a>, 7687 ft., almost
+due N., with a strange natural tunnel through the summit. From <a name =
+"mt_cuculla" id = "mt_cuculla">Mt. Cuculla</a>, 6733 ft., nearly 1¾
+hours W. from the Col is a still better view of Tafonato, and besides a
+sight of Mt. Cinto, the valley of the Golo and the mountain range of
+Monte Rotondo. A little beyond the summit of the Col is the <a name =
+"maison_castellaccio" id = "maison_castellaccio">Maison de Cantonniers
+de Castellaccio</a>, whence there is a good view of the <a name =
+"valdoniello18" id = "valdoniello18">forest of Valdoniello</a>, 11,483
+acres, containing besides many large pines very fine specimens of
+beeches, birches and alders. The felling of the trees in this forest
+commenced in 1863.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+After arriving at the <a name = "maison_sciattarina" id =
+"maison_sciattarina">Maison forestière de Sciattarina</a> 10½&nbsp;m.
+from
+<span class = "pagenum">19</span>
+<a name = "page19" id = "page19"> </a>
+<!--png 037-->
+Evisa, the road passes by some of the finest trees, and descends into
+the valley of the <a name = "golo_source" id = "golo_source">Golo</a>;
+which has its source in a ravine between Mts. Tafonato and
+Paglia-Orba.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Four and a half miles farther is the <a name = "maison_popaja" id =
+"maison_popaja">Maison forestière de Popaja</a>, 3468 ft., 15&nbsp;m.
+from Evisa and 3&nbsp;m. from Albertacce. Either this house or the
+former, make good quarters for exploring the forest.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Two miles farther is the Ponte Alto, 2740 ft.; where the road crosses
+the Golo and enters the pastoral country of the <a name = "niolo" id =
+"niolo">Niolo</a>; now called the canton of Calacuccia, comprehending
+the villages of Albertacce, Calacuccia, Corscia, Lozzi, and
+Casamaccioli.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+From near the bridge a mule path of 1¾&nbsp;m. ascends to <a name =
+"casamaccioli" id = "casamaccioli">Casamaccioli</a>, 2780 ft., pop. 550;
+whence the continuation leads in 7 hours to Corté by the Bocca la Croce,
+the Melo forest, and the valley of the Tavignano.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote">
+<span class = "headnote">Albertacce.&mdash;Monte Cinto.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "albertacce" id = "albertacce">Albertacce</a>, 18&nbsp;m. from
+Evisa, 2845 ft., pop. 1000, a dirty village amidst chestnut and walnut
+trees; where a good deal of coarse linen and Corsican cloth is woven. It
+is one of the places whence the ascent is made of <a name = "mt_cinto19"
+id = "mt_cinto19">Monte Cinto</a>, 8892 ft., in 7 hours, and in about 6
+for the descent. The path ascends by <a name = "calasima" id =
+"calasima">Calasima</a>, 3610 ft., to the height of 5251 ft. After this
+the course extends almost horizontally in a western direction across
+ridges, ascending by gradations more or less fatiguing.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+When about 7720 ft., and having climbed nearly 6 hours, a cave is passed
+where shelter can be had. The remainder of the ascent is comparatively
+easy. The view is grand, Monte Falo, 8363 ft., being the most prominent
+object. The ascent cannot be made till the beginning of summer on
+account of the snow.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "nino" id = "nino">
+<span class = "headnote">Lake Nino.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+To <b>Lake Nino</b>, 5598 ft., the source of the Tavignano in 5 hours.
+From the lake a mule path chiefly by the left bank of the Tavignano,
+leads in 6½ hours to Corté, through magnificent forests.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Around the lake are some shepherds huts; where rest and refreshment can
+be had, but no further supply of food can be counted on between the lake
+and Corté. The lake, full of fish, lies in a hollow between high
+mountains, the highest being <a name = "mt_retto" id = "mt_retto">Mt.
+Retto</a>, 6592 at the western end.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "albertacce_to_francardo" id =
+"albertacce_to_francardo"><b>Albertacce to Ponte Francardo</b></a>,
+18&nbsp;m. N.E. The road follows the Golo. To the left, a road
+1¼&nbsp;m., leads up to <a name = "lozzi" id = "lozzi">Lozzi</a>, pop.
+1050. 2½&nbsp;m. from Albertacce is <a name = "calacuccia" id =
+"calacuccia">Calacuccia</a>, 2779 ft. pop. 860, and 2&nbsp;m. farther,
+another byeroad ascends to <a name = "corscia" id =
+"corscia">Corscia</a>, 2913 ft., pop. 1000, about 5 hours walk S. from
+Asco, whence also Mt. Cinto may be ascended by the valley of the Asco
+called also Stranciacone. <a name = "asco19" id = "asco19">Asco</a> is 5
+hours from Olmi Capella by the Stranciacone, its affluent the
+Tassinella, and the <a name = "col_petrella" id = "col_petrella">Col de
+Petrella</a>, 6440 ft., to the S. of <a name = "mt_corona19" id =
+"mt_corona19">Mt. Corona</a>, 7032&nbsp;ft.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Near the chapel of S.&nbsp;Pancrazio, 2786 ft., 4&nbsp;m. from
+Albertacce is the commencement of the <a name = "santaregina" id =
+"santaregina">Scala di Santa Regina</a>, as this part of road is called,
+cut in the face of perpendicular cliffs rising from the bed of the Golo.
+About half way are the small chapel and inn of Santa Regina, and the
+cave which in former times used to be the stronghold of robbers.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">20</span>
+<a name = "page20" id = "page20"> </a>
+<!--png 038-->
+<p class = "smaller">
+Thirteen miles from Albertacce is the <a name = "diable" id =
+"diable">Pont du Diable</a>, 1083 ft., where four roads meet. The road
+southwards or to the right leads to Corté, 7&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. by Castirla
+and Soveria, and the <a name = "col_oninanda" id = "col_oninanda">Col of
+Oninanda</a>, 2155 ft., between cliffs rising 1720 ft.
+above&nbsp;it.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "asco20" id = "asco20">
+<span class = "headnote">Asco.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The road leading northwards extends to the beautiful highway between <a
+name = "leccia_to_calvi" id = "leccia_to_calvi">Ponte alla Leccia and
+Calvi</a>; by <a name = "castiglione" id = "castiglione">Castiglione</a>
+3¼&nbsp;m., pop. 550, at the foot of <a name = "mt_traunato" id =
+"mt_traunato">Mt. Traunato</a>, 7186 ft., <a name = "popolasca" id =
+"popolasca">Popolasca</a>, 7&nbsp;m., pop. 200, with beautiful red
+granite pinnacles, and <a name = "moltifao" id = "moltifao">Moltifao</a>
+12&nbsp;m., pop. 1050, with Inn, consisting of a group of villages,
+clustered on the slopes of the ridge which separate the valley of the
+Tartagine from the Asco. The byeroad S.W. from Moltifao leads up the
+highly picturesque valley of the Asco, with magnificent forest trees, to
+the village of <a name = "asco" id = "asco">Asco</a>, pop. 950, a group
+of hamlets seldom visited, although one of the best points from which to
+make the ascent of <a name = "mt_cinto20" id = "mt_cinto20">Mt.
+Cinto</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "francardo20" id = "francardo20">
+<span class = "headnote">Ponte Francardo.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The road leading 5&nbsp;m. N.E. by the Golo extends to the <b>Ponte
+Francardo</b>, where the rail may be taken. See <a href =
+"#francardo9">p.&nbsp;9</a> and <a href = "#map2">General Map</a>.</p>
+
+<!--png 039-->
+<p class = "illustration">
+<a name = "map5" id = "map5" href = "images/map5.png">
+<img src = "images/map5thumb.png" width = "499" height = "259"
+alt = "Corsica Western Central Region"
+title = "Corsica Western Central Region"></a></p>
+
+<p class = "caption">
+Corsica Western Central Region<br>
+<a href = "images/map5.png">&mdash; larger view &mdash;</a></p>
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "calvi_to_bastia" id =
+"calvi_to_bastia">
+Calvi to Corté or to Bastia.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>See <a href = "#map2">General Map</a>.</h6>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+By Ponte alla Leccia. The finest part of the road is between Calvi and
+the Col Colombano. “If I were to permit myself to dwell in detail on the
+exquisite variety and charm of the drive, especially after quitting the
+<i>route forestière</i> a little E. of the hamlet of Palasca, I should
+wander far from the main purpose of this paper. Valery, Gregorovius,
+Lear and others have done justice to its wonderful beauty, and the last
+truly remarks that ‘those who visit Corsica without going through upper
+Balagne remain ignorant of one of its finest divisions,’ adding, ‘no
+description can exaggerate the beauty of this remarkable tract of
+mountain background and deep valley, which for richness of foreground,
+cheerful fertility and elegance of distance may compete with most
+Italian landscapes.’ The district is densely peopled&mdash;at least
+twelve large villages are situated on the road itself between Belgodere
+and Lumio, a distance of 21 miles&mdash;and picturesque hamlets with
+lofty campanili perch high up on the mountain slopes or crown the
+summits of the lower hills, whilst everywhere there is the richest
+culture and most varied produce, and the charm of the picture is
+completed by continually varying views over ‘bowery hollows crowned with
+summer sea.’�&mdash;F.&nbsp;F. Tuckett, Alpine Club.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "olive" id = "olive">
+<span class = "headnote">The Olive Tree.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CORTÉ</span>
+<span class = "miles from">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
+<span class = "miles to">61</span>
+CALVI. The road skirts the coast as far as Lumio, 6&nbsp;m. from Calvi,
+whence it commences to ascend gradually by an admirably engineered road
+round the undulations of olive-clad mountains, disclosing at every turn
+a different view of <a name = "balagna" id = "balagna">the fertile
+valley of Balagna</a>, extending from the distant mountains to the blue
+waters of the Mediterranean. It is said that there is no district
+throughout the whole of Italy where the olive attains such a size as in
+this valley. Of the tree there are three varieties, the Sabine
+(<i>Sabinacci</i>), the Saracen (<i>Saraceni</i>),
+<span class = "pagenum">21</span>
+<a name = "page21" id = "page21"> </a>
+<!--png 040-->
+and the Genoese (<i>Genovesi</i>), the most common of all, and is
+ascribed to the Genoese, who during the government of Agostino Doria
+compelled the Corsicans to plant olives in great numbers.</p>
+
+<p>After passing the picturesquely situated village of <a name =
+"lavatoggio" id = "lavatoggio">Lavatoggio</a>, 9&nbsp;m.; the Col
+Cesario, 1200 ft., 10½&nbsp;m.; the villages of <a name = "feliceto21"
+id = "feliceto21">Feliceto</a>, inn, pop. 640, 16¼&nbsp;m.; Castor,
+24&nbsp;m.; <a name = "speloncato" id = "speloncato">Speloncato</a>;
+Ville di <a name = "paraso" id = "paraso">Paraso</a>, pop. 750;
+Occhiatana, and many more perched on the surrounding mountain tops, or
+nestling in nooks among olive and chestnut trees, the diligence
+arrives&nbsp;at</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "belgodere" id = "belgodere">
+<span class = "headnote">Belgodere.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CORTÉ</span>
+<span class = "miles from">26¾</span>
+<span class = "miles to">34¼</span>
+BELGODERE 1017 feet, pop. 950, commanding the finest view of this
+beautiful valley, its orchards, fields and mountains undulating towards
+the blue sea. The diligence just remains long enough to give time to run
+through the gate and up the narrow dirty street to the top of the rock
+on which the houses are clustered, and there to take a rapid glance at
+the lovely scene around and underneath. After the gate, the diligence
+halts at the post-office, and then moves on a few yards towards the
+stables, where the horses are changed.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "tartagine" id = "tartagine">
+<span class = "headnote">Capella.&mdash;Tartagine Forest.</span></a></p>
+
+<h5 class = "smallcaps"><a name = "belgodere_to_tartagine"
+id = "belgodere_to_tartagine">Forest Road from Belgodere to the Forest
+of Tartagine.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+From Belgodere, Route Forestière, No. 3, leads down to the small port of
+Losari, 6&nbsp;miles N. from Belgodere and 4½ E. from the Ile Rousse. A
+continuation of the same route southward extends to the bridge across
+the Tartagine, 2355 feet, 25 miles from the Ile Rousse, in the great
+forest of Tartagine. It passes the Bocca Campana, 2782 feet, 3¼ miles
+from Belgodere; the Bocca Croce, 3045 feet, the culminating part of the
+road, 7&nbsp;miles from Belgodere; and 2½&nbsp;miles farther, the
+hamlets of Olmi and Capella, 9&nbsp;miles from Speloncato; with
+ever-varying mountain and village scenes among great forests; 20&nbsp;m.
+from Belgodere is the Pont Tartagine in the forest of that name. The
+forest of Tartagine, enclosed within the high crests of the <a name =
+"dentecapo" id = "dentecapo">Capo Dente</a> 6667 ft. on the west, and of
+<a name = "mt_padro21" id = "mt_padro21">Mt. Padro</a> on the east,
+measures 7166 acres, and contains principally the <i>Pinus laricio</i>
+and the <i>P. pinaster</i>, intermingled with ilexes or evergreen oaks
+(<a href = "#evergreen">p.&nbsp;41</a>).</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "belgodere_to_olmi" id = "belgodere_to_olmi">“</a><a name =
+"olmi" id = "olmi">Olmi-Capella</a> 2723 ft. is in an open airy
+situation, commanding fine views of the mountains to the S. and S.W.,
+and protected to some extent on the N. and N.W. by the ridge which
+sweeps round to the head of the Tartagine valley. This ridge, though in
+the neighbourhood of the village only about 1000 ft. above the sloping
+plateau on which it is built, rises to the W. into the peaks of Monte
+Tolo 4370 ft., Monte San Parteo 5512 ft., <a name = "mt_cineraggia" id =
+"mt_cineraggia">Monte Cineraggia</a> 5286 ft., <a name =
+"ajaccio_to_evisa" id = "mt_grosso">Monte Grosso</a> 6227 ft., Punta
+Radiche 6595 ft., Capo al Dente 6667 ft., and <a name = "mt_corona21" id
+= "mt_corona21">Monte Corona</a> 7031 ft. The N. slope of this ridge is
+very steep, and commands most magnificent views of the Haute Balagne and
+the sea beyond, whilst it is traversed by numerous passes which afford
+charming scenery. Besides the <i>route forestière</i>, which crosses the
+Col de Bocca
+<span class = "pagenum">22</span>
+<a name = "page22" id = "page22"> </a>
+<!--png 041-->
+Croce 3048&nbsp;ft., and by which the timber of the forest of Tartagine
+is conveyed to Ile Rousse for shipment, several mule-paths connect Olmi
+Capella much more directly with <a name = "ville" id = "ville">Ville</a>
+and Speloncato by the Bocca Battaglia 3550 ft., and Bocca Croce d’Ovo
+3629 feet; with <a name = "feliceto22" id = "feliceto22">Feliceto</a> by
+the Bocca Pianile 5033 ft.; with Zilia and Calvi by the <a name =
+"bocca_cineraggia" id = "bocca_cineraggia">Bocca di Cineraggia</a> 4698
+ft.; with <a name = "calenzana22" id = "calenzana22">Calenzana</a> by
+the <a name = "biancabocca" id = "biancabocca">Bocca Bianca</a> 6155
+ft., with Calenzana or the Val Ficarella by the Bocca di Tartagine 6093
+ft.; and with the head of the valley of Asco by the Bocca de l’Ondella
+6086 ft.�&mdash;F.&nbsp;F. Tuckett, Alpine Club.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "palasca" id = "palasca">
+<span class = "headnote">Palasca.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CORTÉ</span>
+<span class = "miles from">28¾</span>
+<span class = "miles to">32¼</span>
+PALASCA pop. 550. Situated lower down than the high road and the last
+village on this side of the</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CORTÉ</span>
+<span class = "miles from">31½</span>
+<span class = "miles to">29½</span>
+<a name = "col_st_colombano" id = "col_st_colombano">COL DE SAN
+COLOMBANO</a> 2625 feet above the sea. The view though more vast is less
+distinct, presenting a succession of mountain-tops, between which are
+dimly seen valleys with the sea in the distance. The diligence now
+descends into the narrow, rocky vale of the Navaccia, an affluent of the
+Tartagine, which enters the Golo a little above the important bridge
+called the</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "leccia22" id = "leccia22">
+<span class = "headnote">Ponte alla Leccia.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>CORTÉ</span>
+<span class = "miles from">46¾</span>
+<span class = "miles to">14¼</span>
+PONTE ALLA LECCIA. Inn at station. Here take rail for Corté (see <a href
+= "#corte">p.&nbsp;8</a>) or for Bastia, 29 miles N.E. (see <a href =
+"#bastia">p.&nbsp;10</a>). The <a name = "pontenovo22" id =
+"pontenovo22">Ponte Nuovo</a> is distinctly seen from the station. The
+two small houses near the railway bridge, on the S. side of the Golo,
+were Paoli’s headquarters during the battle (see pp. <a href =
+"#leccia9">9</a> and <a href = "#paoli">39</a>).</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>CALVI</span>
+<span class = "miles from">61</span>
+<a href = "#corte">CORTÉ</a>, see <a href = "#corte">page 8</a>.</p>
+
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary">
+Ajaccio to Vico and Evisa.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>33 miles north; time 7 to 8 hours; fare 4&nbsp;frs.</h6>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>VICO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
+<span class = "miles to">33</span>
+AJACCIO. At about two miles from the town the diligence commences the
+ascent of the low Col of Stileto, passing the aqueduct for the Gravona
+water. On the left hand are the granite quarries whence the large slabs
+were taken for the monument to Napoleon in the Place d’Armes, as well as
+the long blocks for the pillars of the Marseilles cathedral. <a name =
+"appietto" id = "appietto">To the right are the village of Appietto</a>,
+pop. 700, on a hill and the great cliff <a name = "mt_gozzi" id =
+"mt_gozzi">Monte Gozzi</a>, 656 feet high.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>VICO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">12</span>
+<span class = "miles to">21</span>
+Summit of the <a name = "col_st_sebastien22" id =
+"col_st_sebastien22">COL <ins class = "correction"
+title = "also called ‘Sebastien’ alone">ST. SEBASTIEN</ins></a>,
+1344 feet above the sea,
+commanding a lovely prospect of the Bays of Liscia, Sagona and Cargésé,
+and of the valley of Cinarca, with its villages and vineyards. At the
+foot of the Col is a small inn called Le Repos des Voyageurs, where
+bread and wine and <a name = "seaurchins" id = "seaurchins">capital
+sea-urchins</a> can be had. They are eaten raw, and taken out of the
+shell by cutting it in two horizontally.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">23</span>
+<a name = "page23" id = "page23"> </a>
+<!--png 042-->
+
+<p>
+<!--omit sidenote to avoid collision-->
+<span class = "miles from">23</span>
+<span class = "miles to">10</span>
+<a name = "sagona23" id = "sagona23">SAGONA</a> junction with road to
+Calvi, 79 miles N. (see <a href = "#sagona">p.&nbsp;17</a>).</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>VICO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">31</span>
+<span class = "miles to">2</span>
+Summit of the <a name = "col_st_antoine" id = "col_st_antoine">COL ST.
+ANTOINE</a>, 1488 feet. <a name = "balogna" id = "balogna">Near the top,
+at some distance to the left, is the village of Balogna</a>, pop. 600,
+while in front is seen the splendid range of the Monte Rotondo, among
+which the most conspicuous is La Sposata, at the head of wooded
+valleys.</p>
+
+<p>The road to the left or N. leads to <a name = "evisa23" id =
+"evisa23"><b>Evisa</b></a>, 18 miles from Vico, pop. 1000, and 2770 feet
+above the sea. <i>Hotel:</i> Carrara, a comfortable house, where
+vehicles may be hired. Evisa is charmingly situated on the confines of
+the <a name = "aitone23" id = "aitone23">forest of Aïtone</a>,
+containing 3,749 acres. Beyond Aïtone, or 11 miles from Evisa, is the
+large <a name = "valdoniello23" id = "valdoniello23">forest of
+Valdoniello</a>, 11,483 acres. These forests, instead of extending
+monotonously on large plains, plunge into deep valleys, or creep up the
+sides of high mountains.</p>
+
+<p>From Evisa descend to Porto (see <a href =
+"#porto_to_evisa">p.&nbsp;18</a>).</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "vico" id = "vico">
+<span class = "headnote">Vico.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">33</span>
+VICO pop. 2020. <i>Inns:</i> France, where the diligence stops;
+Voyageurs; Univers. Most picturesquely situated in the valley of the
+Liamone, surrounded by steep mountains covered with apple, peach,
+chestnut, walnut, olive and oak trees. On the opposite side of the
+valley is the large whitewashed convent of St. Francis, with terraced
+garden shaded by tall magnolias, beautifully placed on a thickly-wooded
+bank, above which is seen the small hamlet of Nessa. It is a favourite
+summer resort of the <i>élite</i> of Ajaccio, who revel here on carpets
+of cyclamen, violets, and a profusion of other wild flowers, in the
+shade of the dense foliage of the chestnut groves around.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "guagno" id = "guagno">
+<span class = "headnote">Baths of Guagno.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Seven and a half miles from Vico up the wooded vale of the Liamone and
+by the Bridges of Silvani and Belfiori, the village of Murzo and the Col
+de Sorro, are the Baths of Guagno, with hot, sulphurous springs,
+resembling in their properties those of Bareges in the Pyrenees (see
+Black’s <i>South France</i>). From May to September they are much
+frequented, when a coach runs between Vico and Guagno. Time, 2 hours;
+fare, 3&nbsp;frs. Coaches can be hired at Vico for Evisa. Charge, 10
+frs.</p>
+
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "ajaccio_to_sartene" id =
+"ajaccio_to_sartene">
+Ajaccio to Sartène.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>53 m. S. by diligence, over a hilly road; 13 hrs.</h6>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "miles from">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
+<span class = "miles to">53</span>
+AJACCIO. The most comfortable way to go to Sartène is to take the
+steamer to Propriano, only 8&nbsp;miles N. from Sartène, and there to
+await the daily coach. The diligence from Ajaccio, after having crossed
+the rivers Gravona, Prunelli, Agnone, Vergajolo and Margone, and the
+pass of Campolaccio, 843 feet, arrives&nbsp;at</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "cauro" id = "cauro">
+<span class = "headnote">Cauro.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "miles from">12½</span>
+<span class = "miles to">40½</span>
+CAURO or CAVRO, 1180 ft. <i>Inn.</i> Coach to Bastelica. Pop. 700. A
+straggling mountain village, commanding extensive views.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">24</span>
+<a name = "page24" id = "page24"> </a>
+<!--png 043-->
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "cauro_to_bastelica" id =
+"cauro_to_bastelica">
+Cauro to Bastelica.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+12&nbsp;m. northwards by “Courrier� by a charming forest road, which
+after crossing the Else at the Pont Zipitoli, 7&nbsp;m. from Cauro,
+enters the defile of the Prunelli at the <a name = "col_menta" id =
+"col_menta">Col de Menta</a>, about 2&nbsp;m. from Bastelica.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The road from Cauro crosses the Col Torro, 1394 ft., 1½&nbsp;m. Four
+miles, the col and bridge S.&nbsp;Alberto, 1710 ft. whence a road
+ramifies 7½&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. to S.&nbsp;Maria-Siché and Grossetto. On the
+right side of the road a waterfall descends from the crest of the
+Usciolo. Large oaks and chestnut trees with ilexes and pines are now
+seen. 7&nbsp;m. here a short branch road leads to a maison forestière
+surrounded by large trees, at the foot of Mt. Mantelluccio, 5515 ft. A
+little farther a road ramifies 4½&nbsp;m. by the wild and beautiful <a
+name = "else" id = "else">valley of the Else</a> into the <a name =
+"ponteniello" id = "ponteniello">forest of Ponteniello</a>, and where it
+ends a mule path commences to <a name = "frasseto24" id =
+"frasseto24">Frasseto</a>, pop. 750, on the coach road between Ajaccio
+and the baths of Guitera. 7½&nbsp;m. the Zipitoli bridge across the
+Else, a short way above its junction with the Prunelli. On the right
+side of the river is the <a name = "maison_zipitoli" id =
+"maison_zipitoli">Maison de Cantonniers of Zipitoli</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+8&nbsp;m. The Col Crichetto, 2380 ft., and nearly 3&nbsp;m. farther the
+Col Menta, 2458 ft., from which the road descends to the Prunelli and
+continues by its banks&nbsp;to</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "dominicacci" id = "dominicacci">
+<span class = "headnote">Dominicacci.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "bastelica" id = "bastelica"><b>Bastelica</b></a>, pop. 4000,
+inn, 2400 ft., consisting of a group of hamlets, none of which bears the
+name of Bastelica. <a name = "sampiero24" id = "sampiero24">Sampiero</a>
+was born in the one called Dominicacci, between Stazzona and Costa, at
+the end of the 15th cent., and killed by the Ornanos in the defile of
+the Prunelli on the 17th January 1567. The house which stands on the
+site of the one he lived in bears an epitaph to his memory, placed by
+“<a name = "wyse" id = "wyse">William Wyse</a>, Irish Roman Catholic,
+nephew of Napoleon the Great.�</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "renoso24" id = "renoso24">
+<span class = "headnote">Mt.&nbsp;Renoso.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Among the many pleasant excursions is the ascent of <a name =
+"mt_renoso24" id = "mt_renoso24">Mt. Renoso</a>, 7733 ft., 5½ hrs.
+N.E.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+In summer men go up every day with mules for frozen snow. There are
+lakes on the south and east sides of the mountain, and some fine velvety
+swards. <a href = "#map6">Map, p.&nbsp;27</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Five miles beyond Cauro, the Sartène road attains the summit of the
+<a name = "col_st_georges" id = "col_st_georges">Col St. Georges</a>,
+2500 ft., commanding a fine prospect of the surrounding country, and
+afterwards descends to the valley of Ornano, the native land of Vanina,
+traversed by the Taravo.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "miles from">20</span>
+<span class = "miles to">33</span>
+<a name = "apa" id = "apa">APA</a> whence a Route Departamentale extends
+18&nbsp;m. N.E. to the baths of Guitera and Zicavo. <a href =
+"#map2">Maps, pp. 1</a> and <a href = "#map6">27</a>.</p>
+
+<h5 class = "smallcaps"><a name = "ajaccio_to_zicavo" id =
+"ajaccio_to_zicavo">Ajaccio to Zicavo and the Baths of Guitera.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "guitera" id = "guitera">
+<span class = "headnote">Baths of Guitera.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+8¼ hrs. by coach and 39&nbsp;m. from Ajaccio by the Apa mill, 1841 ft.,
+then by the slopes of the Punta del <a name = "castello" id =
+"castello">Castello</a>, 2674 ft., through a charming country, to <a
+name = "st_maria" id = "st_maria"><b>S.&nbsp;Maria-Siché</b></a>,
+2&nbsp;m. from Apa, inn where coach stops, pop. 800. An old lofty
+building here of granite, with the remains of towers blackened by age,
+was the birthplace of the unfortunate
+<span class = "pagenum">25</span>
+<a name = "page25" id = "page25"> </a>
+<!--png 044-->
+<a name = "vanina25" id = "vanina25">Vanina</a>, strangled by Sampiero,
+<a href = "#vanina38">p.&nbsp;39</a>. The ruins of the chateau he built
+for himself in 1554, after his house had been destroyed, are seen on a
+hill to the left of the road. Coaches for Ajaccio, Guitera, Zicavo, and
+Propriano. 4½&nbsp;m. from Apa at <a name = "campo" id =
+"campo">Campo</a>, pop. 390, the road describes a great circuit to get
+round the head of the defile of the torrent of Frasseto, an affluent of
+the Taravo. 1¼&nbsp;m. farther is <a name = "frasseto25" id =
+"frasseto25">Frasseto</a>, pop. 740. When about 2770 feet high there is,
+through an opening, a superb view extending to the sea by the valley of
+the Frasseto. 8&nbsp;m. from Apa is the <a name = "col_granace" id =
+"col_granace">Col de Granace</a>,<a class = "tag" href = "#noteB" name =
+"tagBt" id = "tagBt">B*</a> 2713&nbsp;ft., with a splendid view. <a name
+= "zecavo" id = "zecavo">Zecavo</a>, 10&nbsp;m., 2238 ft., pop. 510, on
+an affluent of the Taravo. Then rounding the buttresses of the <a name =
+"sposata" id = "sposata">Sposata</a>, 3288 ft., enter the village of
+Corrano, 12&nbsp;m., pop. 470, in a lovely situation. 14½&nbsp;m. from
+Apa and 34½ from Ajaccio are the hot sulphurous springs of
+<b>Guitera</b>, with hotel, 1437 ft., on the right bank of the Taravo,
+an excellent trout stream. Coach to and from Ajaccio during the season,
+from May to September. Pleasantly situated among cork oaks and banks
+covered with the Osmunda fern. The road from the Baths of Guitera up to
+Zicavo, 3½&nbsp;m., follows for about 1&nbsp;m. the Taravo till its
+union with the torrent from <a name = "mt_coscione" id =
+"mt_coscione">Mt. Coscione</a>, whence it climbs up through the
+gorge&nbsp;to</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "zicavo" id = "zicavo">
+<span class = "headnote">Zicavo.&mdash;Mt.&nbsp;Incudine.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<b>Zicavo</b>, pop. 1500, hotel, <ins class = "correction"
+title = "map has 2345 ft.">2385 ft.</ins>,
+charmingly situated, overlooking the
+valley of the Taravo, 38&nbsp;m. by coach from Ajaccio. From Zicavo the
+ascent is made of <a name = "mt_incudine" id = "mt_incudine">Monte
+<b>Incudine</b></a>, 7008 ft., in 6 hrs. <b>Mules</b> can be employed to
+within ½ hr. of summit. Although not difficult, guide and mule are
+advisable, if for nothing else than to assist in fording the streams.
+After having passed the chapel of S.&nbsp;Roch, ascend a steep mule
+path, right, among the largest and best formed chestnut trees in the
+island, then rounding Mt. Buchino, 3623 ft., among ilexes, and Mt.
+Occhiato, 5749 ft., covered with beech trees, ascend southwards by a
+wooded ravine between great rocks. Between 2 and 3 hrs. the Pastures of
+the plain of Coscione, with many shepherds’ huts, are reached, whence
+Mt. Incudine is seen. After leaving this the path becomes very bad, over
+loose stones and across troublesome torrents. These are succeeded by an
+annoying thick coppice of alders, and then the Col de Cheralba, 6345
+ft., is ascended, in about 5½ hrs. from starting. The mules are left
+here, and the ascent is made by the western flank, taking care to make
+the guide understand that the highest peak is wanted, and not the Rocher
+de l’Incudine.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote">
+<span class = "headnote">Nelson.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+“The view is probably the most beautiful in Corsica&mdash;a vast
+panorama full of variety. Steep pine clad hills sink abruptly into the
+eastern sea; glens open southward on a rich glowing valley; the blue
+depths of the bays are fringed with an edging of white sand and green
+water. The great granite aiguilles of the forest of Bavella, a strange
+array of horns and pinnacles, run across the foreground; to the left the
+long fiord of Porto Vecchio stretches far into the land; while in the
+centre of the picture are spread out the broad Straits of Bonifacio,
+studded with pale isles and islets. On the left is Caprera, the home of
+the liberator of the Two Sicilies. The one beside it, <a name =
+"maddalena" id = "maddalena">Maddalena</a>, is linked with even greater
+memories&mdash;<a name = "nelson" id = "nelson">Nelson and Napoleon</a>.
+Under its lee, in a bay which
+<span class = "pagenum">26</span>
+<a name = "page26" id = "page26"> </a>
+<!--png 045-->
+Nelson christened ‘Agincourt Sound,’ the British fleet lay for months
+before the battle of the Nile, watching for the French squadron
+sheltered behind the guns of Toulon. Two silver candlesticks on the
+altar of the village church record Nelson’s gratitude for the friendly
+services of the inhabitants. It was in attacking this same village that
+<a name = "napoleon26" id = "napoleon26">Napoleon</a>, in 1793, first
+saw fire. For mountain views the Alpine clubman is spoilt, but for sea
+views, and they are not less beautiful, he must go far, perhaps as far
+as Greece, to find such another.�&mdash;D.&nbsp;F. Freshfield, Alpine
+Club. See <a href = "#map1">map on fly-leaf</a>.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "miles from">21</span>
+<span class = "miles to">32</span>
+<a name = "grosseto" id = "grosseto">GROSSETO</a> 1476 feet, pop. 600;
+4½ hours by diligence from Ajaccio.
+<span class = "smaller">A little beyond the inn is the church, sheltered
+by large ilex trees, which grow to a great height in this
+neighbourhood.</span> </p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "miles from">30</span>
+<span class = "miles to">23</span>
+<a name = "bicchisano" id = "bicchisano">BICCHISANO</a> 350 feet, pop.
+1800, where the passengers dine.
+<span class = "smaller">The diligence then passes the villages of
+Petreto and <a name = "cassalabriva" id =
+"cassalabriva">Cassalabriva</a>, pop. 300, and shortly afterwards
+reaches the summit of the <a name = "col_celaccia" id =
+"col_celaccia">Col Celaccia</a>, 1910 feet, about 2½&nbsp;m.&nbsp;E.
+from <a name = "sollacaro" id = "sollacaro">Sollacaro</a>, pop. 800,
+where Boswell visited Paoli. Sollacaro is not on the highroad.</span>
+</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "olmeto" id = "olmeto">
+<span class = "headnote">Olmeto.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "miles from">39</span>
+<span class = "miles to">14</span>
+OLMETO pop. 1650, hotel. On a hill, with an extensive view.
+<span class = "smaller">In the neighbourhood, on Monte Buttareto, are
+the ruins of the castle of Arrigo della Rocca. No more beautiful sight
+than that of Olmeto can be pictured. Immediately below the town the
+ground dips steeply down, covered with corn or turf; or in terraces of
+vineyard, varied with large groups of fine olive trees stretching down
+to the shore. Above the village a vast growth of vegetation climbs the
+heights. Among huge masses of granite are tangles of every shrub the
+island produces, the wild olive or oleaster being one of the most
+elegant; while every part of the heights close to the town abounds with
+little picture subjects, with a clear blue sky for a background.</span>
+</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The road now descends to the coast, and after crossing the Baracci, near
+the <a name = "baracci" id = "baracci">hot sulphurous mineral baths of
+Baracci</a>, arrives&nbsp;at</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "propriano" id = "propriano">
+<span class = "headnote">Propriano.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "miles from">44½</span>
+<span class = "miles to">8½</span>
+PROPRIANO pop. 1000. H.&nbsp;France.
+<span class = "smaller">Every Saturday a steamer arrives from Ajaccio,
+and returns on the Monday morning. Another steamer twice weekly between
+this and Ajaccio. Near the bridge over the Rizzanèse, are the two Celtic
+monuments called the Stazione del’ Diavolo.</span> </p>
+
+<h5 class = "smallcaps"><a name = "propriano_to_solenzara" id =
+"propriano_to_solenzara">Propriano to Solenzara.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Two and a half miles beyond the bridge commences the Route Forestière,
+No. 4, leading to Solenzara, 42½&nbsp;m. N.E. This road ascends by the
+Rizzanese to <a name = "st_lucia26" id = "st_lucia26">S.&nbsp;Lucia di
+Tallano</a>, whence eastward to <a name = "levie26" id =
+"levie26">Levie</a>, 1970 ft.; and thence <a name = "zonza26" id =
+"zonza26">Zonza</a>, 2586 ft. The road afterwards ascends N.E. by a
+picturesque ravine to the <a name = "col_bavella26" id =
+"col_bavella26">Col Bavella</a>, 3965 ft.; whence after descending to
+the Maison Cantonniere, 1476 ft., it crosses the <a name =
+"col_larone26" id = "col_larone26">Col Larone</a>, 2013; whence it
+descends by a winding road partly by the banks of the Fiumicello and
+partly by the R. Solenzara to Solenzara (see <a href =
+"#solenzara_to_sartene">p.&nbsp;36</a>).</p>
+
+<p><span class = "pagenum">27</span>
+<a name = "page27" id = "page27"> </a>
+<!--png 047-->
+Shortly after crossing the Rizzanese the diligence commences the long
+ascent to Sartène, disclosing views of the great valley below and of the
+splendid snowy heights of the long range of mountains opposite,
+terminating in the lofty regions of the great Monte Incudine,
+7008&nbsp;ft.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "sartene" id = "sartene">
+<span class = "headnote">Sartène.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>AJACCIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">53</span>
+SARTÈNE 1000 feet; pop. 6010; <i>Inns:</i> Commerce: Univers.
+<span class = "smaller">Coaches daily to and from Ajaccio, Bonifacio and
+Santa Lucia di Tallano. Old Sartène is a town of narrow streets
+approached by a fine bridge, whence the whole valley is seen down to the
+Gulf of Valinco. It still retains some towers and parts of the walls
+erected in the 16th century. The houses are built of rough, dark gray
+granite, with steep stone steps leading up to the main entrance, and odd
+Italian chimneys, some in the shape of pillars with curious capitals,
+others in the form of towers or obelisks. The houses bordering the
+Nouvello Traverse and the streets leading into the “Place� form the new
+town.</span> </p>
+
+
+<!--png 046-->
+<p class = "illustration">
+<a name = "map6" id = "map6" href = "images/map6.png">
+<img src = "images/map6thumb.png" width = "264" height = "440"
+alt = "Corsica, Central Region"
+title = "Corsica, Central Region"></a></p>
+
+<p class = "caption">
+Corsica, Central Region<br>
+<a href = "images/map6.png">&mdash; larger view &mdash;</a></p>
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "sartene_to_corte" id =
+"sartene_to_corte">Sartène to Corté by Vivario,</a></h5>
+
+<h6>up the centre of the island. <a href = "#map2">Maps, pp. 1</a> and
+<a href = "#map6">27</a>.</h6>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+This grand mountain road, No. 196 bis, extends from Sartène,
+73&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N. to the Ajaccio and Corté road, which it joins at the
+60 <ins class = "correction"
+title = "inconsistency in original">kilometres-stone</ins>,
+on the Col Serra, ½ mile from Vivario.
+All the diligences between Ajaccio and Corté halt at the inn of Vivario
+(<a href = "#vivario">p.&nbsp;8</a>).</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "st_lucia27" id = "st_lucia27">
+<span class = "headnote">S.&nbsp;Lucia di Tallano.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>After leaving Sartène the road crosses the Fiumicicoli and ascends
+the valley of the Rizzanese to Loreto, 12&nbsp;m., and <a name =
+"cargiaca" id = "cargiaca">Cargiaca</a> 15&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N. from Sartène
+1302 ft.; grand view. Near Loreto is S.&nbsp;Lucia di Tallano, 1270 ft.,
+with a quarry of a beautiful <a name = "amphibole" id =
+"amphibole">amphibole</a>, a variety of hornblende. The ground colour is
+grayish blue sprinkled with white and margined with black spots (see <a
+href = "#campolajo">p.&nbsp;37</a>).</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "zicavo27" id = "zicavo27">
+<span class = "headnote">Zicavo.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>From Cargiaca the road enters the valley of the Coscione and ascends
+through the <a name = "taca" id = "taca">ilex forest of Taca</a> amidst
+towering mountains and vertical cliffs by <a name = "aullene" id =
+"aullene">the villages of Zerubia and Aullene</a>, 2736 ft., pop. 1100;
+inn; 21&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N. from Sartène. It now crosses the Coscione, 3492
+ft., then the Col Vaccia, 3898 ft., and descends by the Col d’Alisandri,
+3426 ft., to <b>Zicavo</b>, <ins class = "correction"
+title = "map has 2345 ft.">2445 ft.</ins>,
+with an inn, 17&nbsp;m. from Aullene,
+3½&nbsp;m.&nbsp;E. from the baths of Guitera, 38&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N. from
+Sartène and 37&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. from Vivario.</p>
+
+<p>From the Bocca Tinzole a road ramifies N.W. to <a name = "olivese" id
+= "olivese">Olivese</a> 1460 ft., pop. 700, in the valley of the
+<b>Taravo</b>, 7&nbsp;m. from Guitera by a beautiful road.</p>
+
+<p>From Zicavo the road crosses the Col San Francesco, 1969 ft., to <a
+name = "cozzano" id = "cozzano">Cozzano</a>, 40&nbsp;m., pop. 900, and
+enters the valley of the Taravo, which it ascends by the east bank
+between two great mountain chains, the culminating point of the western
+chain being <a name = "mt_dongiovanni" id = "mt_dongiovanni">Mt. Don
+Giovanni</a> 6405 ft., and that of the eastern <a name = "mt_capella" id
+= "mt_capella">Pointe Capella</a> 6706&nbsp;ft.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "pagenum">28</span>
+<a name = "page28" id = "page28"> </a>
+<!--png 048-->
+Three and a quarter miles up the valley from Cozzano a wheel road leads
+1½&nbsp;m.&nbsp;E. to the <a name = "maison_st_antoine" id =
+"maison_st_antoine">Maison Forestière of St. Antoine</a>, whence a mule
+path by the Col de <a name = "col_rapara" id = "col_rapara">Rapara</a>,
+5557 ft., extends to <a name = "isolaccio" id =
+"isolaccio">Isolaccio</a> and the <a name = "pietrapola28" id =
+"pietrapola28">hot baths of Pietrapola</a>, <a href =
+"#vivario_to_pietrapola">p.&nbsp;8</a>, by a picturesque road through a
+beautiful part of the forest.</p>
+
+<p>Four and a half miles above Cozzano is the <a name = "col_scrivano"
+id = "col_scrivano">Col Scrivano</a>, 2959 ft., whence a mule path leads
+across the valley to <a name = "palneca" id = "palneca">Palneca</a>,
+pop. 1050, on the wooded slopes of Mt. Pietra Cinta, 4958&nbsp;ft.</p>
+
+<p>A little below the summit of the Col is the <a name =
+"maison_scrivano" id = "maison_scrivano">Maison de Cantonniers de
+Scrivano</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Nine and a half miles N. from Zicavo is the bridge Argentuccia,
+fronting a grand semi-circle of mountains covered with noble trees. This
+is the commencement of the real Verde forest.</p>
+
+<p>Eleven and three quarter miles from <a name = "zicavo28" id =
+"zicavo28">Zicavo</a> is the <a name = "maison_ghiraldino" id =
+"maison_ghiraldino">Maison de Cantonniers de Ghiraldino</a>, 3936 ft.,
+49&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N. from Sartène, 2&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. from the Col Verde
+and 5&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. from the House of Refuge of Marmano. A little
+beyond the house a wheel road, left, descends into one of the finest
+parts of the <a name = "verde_forest" id = "verde_forest">Verde
+forest</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "col_verde" id = "col_verde">
+<span class = "headnote">Col Verde.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>Thirteen and three quarter miles from Zicavo and 51&nbsp;m. from
+Sartène is the Col Verde, 4290 ft., with, nearly a mile distant, the <a
+name = "maison_marmano" id = "maison_marmano">Maison de Cantonniers de
+Marmano</a>. Below is the <a name = "marmano_forest" id =
+"marmano_forest">forest of Marmano</a>, with its best trees cut down,
+and in the neighbourhood the sources of the rivers <a name = "taravo" id
+= "taravo">Taravo</a>, 5678 ft., at the Col Tisina, of the <a name =
+"fium_orbo" id = "fium_orbo">Fium Orbo</a>, 3783 ft. under a mountain a
+little to the N. of the Col Verde, and of the <a name = "prunelli" id =
+"prunelli">Prunelli</a>, 4790 ft., among a group of high mountains to
+the&nbsp;W. The <a name = "vecchio" id = "vecchio">Vecchio</a> rises
+from the springs on Mt.&nbsp;Oro.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "marmano" id = "marmano">
+<span class = "headnote">Refuge de Marmano.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>Seventeen miles from Zicavo and 54&nbsp;m. from Sartène is the Refuge
+de Marmano, 3182 ft., beautifully situated. Here was formerly the summer
+station of the <a name = "casabianda" id = "casabianda">Casabianda</a>
+penitentiary. The escaped criminals committed such outrages that the
+government at the repeated petitioning of the shepherds were obliged to
+withdraw it. Finally Casabianda was abandoned also, and the prisoners
+removed to the neighbourhood of Ajaccio, where they could be well looked
+after.</p>
+
+<p>Food and lodging may be obtained at the Maison Forestière, or
+1¼&nbsp;m. farther at the <a name = "maison_canareccia" id =
+"maison_canareccia">Maison de Cantonniers de Canareccia</a>, 2760 ft.,
+in the rocky defile of the Fium Orbo. Between this and Ghisoni,
+6&nbsp;m., 3&nbsp;bridges and 2 low Cols are crossed. At the second
+bridge, the Pont de Casso, 4½&nbsp;m. from Ghisoni, are seen the great
+pinnacles or needles and lofty cliffs of <a name = "albuccia" id =
+"albuccia">Albuccia Point</a> or <a name = "kyrie" id = "kyrie">Kyrie
+Eleison</a>, 4935&nbsp;ft.</p>
+
+<p>From the Canaraccia the road winds its way northward along the
+<span class = "pagenum">29</span>
+<a name = "page29" id = "page29"> </a>
+<!--png 049-->
+flanks of mountains sloping down to the Orbo, which it leaves shortly
+before reaching</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ghisoni" id = "ghisoni">
+<span class = "headnote">Ghisoni.&mdash;Col Sorba.</span></a></p>
+
+<p><b>Ghisoni</b>, pop. 1740, 2160 ft., 62 m. N. from Sartène,
+12&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. from <a name = "vivario29" id =
+"vivario29">Vivario</a>, 8&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N. from the House of Refuge, and
+24&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N. from Zicavo. Four&nbsp;m.&nbsp;N. from Ghisoni the
+road crosses the <a name = "col_scozzolatojo" id =
+"col_scozzolatojo">Col Scozzolatojo</a>, 3916 ft., and 2&nbsp;m. farther
+the <a name = "col_sorba" id = "col_sorba">Col Sorba</a>, 4310 ft.,
+6&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. from <b>Vivario</b>, see <a href =
+"#vivario">p.&nbsp;8</a>. The descent from the Col Sorba into Vivario is
+very striking. It is effected by excessively sharp zigzags through a
+noble pine forest. Between the branches tower the bold forms of Monte
+d’Oro, Monte Rotondo, and, in the distance, behind the uplands of Corté,
+the crags of Monte Traunato.</p>
+
+<p>The best resting-places on this road are Zicavo, 39&nbsp;m. S.E. from
+Ajaccio, from which it is approached by a diligence; and the pleasant
+village of Ghisoni, where there is a very fair inn. At Vivario there is
+the Hotel Voyageurs. Guides and carriages should be hired either at
+Sartène or Vivario, 20 frs. per day.</p>
+
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "ghisoni_to_ghisonaccia" id =
+"ghisoni_to_ghisonaccia">
+Ghisoni to Ghisonaccia.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>18&nbsp;m. S.E. <a href = "#map2">Maps, pp. 1</a> and <a href =
+"#map6">27</a>.</h6>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+By the Forest road No. 5, cut for nearly 11&nbsp;m. in the face of the
+steep cliffs which enclose the Orbo. As this road in all the dangerous
+parts is hardly 11 ft. wide, it is necessary to ascertain before
+starting in a vehicle, the position of the carts conveying the logs, and
+to arrange accordingly.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The road descends from Ghisoni to the Pont de Regolo, 2077 ft., where it
+crosses the Casapietrone, and then follows the course of the Fium Orbo,
+crosses the Ruello Bridge 1450 ft., and enters the Salto della Sposata
+4½&nbsp;m. from Ghisoni, where the river flows in a narrow bed between
+vertical precipices, some more than 1200 ft. high.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "inzecca" id = "inzecca">
+<span class = "headnote">L’Inzecca.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The road, chiselled out of these cliffs, passes under 3 great portals.
+From the third is seen, through the great cleft in the rock of Inzecca,
+the sea at Aleria.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+After this the defile opens up to close again between serpentine cliffs.
+It then crosses the 2 Ponts de Parabuja and the viaduct de l’Inzecca,
+and reaches the entrance to the Passage de l’Inzecca, 7&nbsp;m. from <a
+href = "#ghisoni">Ghisoni</a>, 985 ft. above the sea, where the road is
+cut through great serpentine rocks. This is the most difficult part for
+the waggons to pass. <a href = "#map6">Map, p.&nbsp;27</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The plain now widens, and 8&nbsp;m. from Ghisoni a branch road leads to
+Vezzani.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Nine and a quarter miles from Ghisoni is the Col S.&nbsp;Antoine,
+355&nbsp;ft., and 8¾&nbsp;m. farther is Ghisonaccia, <a href =
+"#ghisonaccia">p.&nbsp;32</a>.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">30</span>
+<a name = "page30" id = "page30"> </a>
+<!--png 050-->
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "sartene_to_bonifacio" id =
+"sartene_to_bonifacio">
+Sartène to Bonifacio.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>33 miles south-east, by diligence; time, 6 hours.</h6>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
+<span class = "miles to">33</span>
+SARTÈNE. The road winds its way through great blocks of granite
+scattered on a plain studded with shrubby specimens of the ilex, towards
+the shore of the Golfo di Roccapina, with a fantastically shaped rock
+called il <a name = "leone" id = "leone">Leone Coronato</a>. East from
+the gulf the road passes the village of Pianottoli, 21&nbsp;m. from
+Sartène, almost due south from the singular mountain l’Uomo di <a name =
+"uomodicagna" id = "uomodicagna">Cagna</a>, 3980 ft.; then the bridge
+across the Figari at the head of the Gulf of Figari, 23&nbsp;m.; the Col
+de la Testa or Scopeto, 225 ft., 24&nbsp;m.; and the bridge across the
+Ventilegni, 27&nbsp;m. from Sartène, and 6&nbsp;from Bonifacio.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "bonifacio" id = "bonifacio">
+<span class = "headnote">Bonifacio.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>SARTÈNE</span>
+<span class = "miles from">33</span>
+BONIFACIO pop. 4000. H.&nbsp;du Nord; France in the high town.
+Diligences leave daily for Bastia, Sartène, and Ajaccio. A steamer
+arrives every Saturday from Ajaccio and returns on the Monday. Bonifacio
+was founded in 833 by the Tuscan marquis whose name it bears, to protect
+this part of the island against the piratical incursions of the
+Saracens. The high town is built on the top of a limestone rock rising
+vertically from the sea. The low town occupies one side of the fine
+natural dock, hemmed in by perpendicular cliffs with an opening of only
+328 yards towards the sea. From the steamboat wharf a broad paved series
+of steps leads up to the high town, entering it through the Porte
+Vieille. In the old house fronting this Porte or gateway, <a name =
+"bonifacio_charles" id = "bonifacio_charles">Charles V.</a>, in 1541,
+stayed two days and a night on his return from his unsuccessful
+expedition against Algiers. Overtaken by a storm, he had taken refuge in
+the Gulf of Santa Manza. The door of the house, decorated with an
+arabesque on marble, is in the narrow side street. In the Place d’Armes
+are the church of San Domenico, built by the Templars, characterised by
+its octagonal tower with an embrasured termination; and the great tower
+“Torrione,� part of the fortifications built by the marquis, and
+formerly the most important part of the citadel. Near this tower is the
+flight of steps “Redragon,� cut in the rock by the Genoese, which
+descends by 202 steps to the sea. The small room over the gateway of the
+citadel, opposite the house of Charles V., was inhabited by <a name =
+"bonifacio_napoleon" id = "bonifacio_napoleon">Napoleon</a> for nearly
+eight months. There are grand sea-views from the ramparts. The town
+consists of tall, dingy houses, and narrow, steep, and in most cases
+dirty streets. The promenade of Bonifacio is the small covered terrace
+before the church of Santa Maria. Here also is the public cistern.</p>
+
+<p>Of the numerous <a name = "bonifacio_caves" id =
+"bonifacio_caves">caves</a> which pierce the base of the rock of
+Bonifacio, the most remarkable one enters from the sea, 214 feet below
+the
+<span class = "pagenum">31</span>
+<a name = "page31" id = "page31"> </a>
+<!--png 051-->
+Place d’Armes, and extends to an unknown distance. It contains a
+freshwater lake, which rises and falls with the tide. A staircase with a
+vaulted roof and consisting of 337 steps leads down to this lake. The
+water is brought up to the surface by a force pump, is perfectly
+transparent, with a slight calcareous taste. In the high town there are
+39 private and one public cistern, in which the rain water from the
+roofs is stored up. The low town has a well supplied from a stream by an
+aqueduct. The afternoon is the best time to visit the caves. A boat for
+one or party should not cost more than 5&nbsp;frs. The finest, the
+Dragonetta, cannot be visited when the sea is rough.</p>
+
+<p>On <a name = "mt_pertusato" id = "mt_pertusato">Monte Pertusato</a>
+(the south extremity of Corsica), 2&nbsp;miles S.E. from Bonifacio, is a
+lighthouse of the first order, 325 feet above the sea. The southern
+promontory is pierced by a cavern hung with stalactites.</p>
+
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "bonifacio_to_bastia" id =
+"bonifacio_to_bastia">
+Bonifacio to Bastia.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>103 miles; diligence to Ghisonaccia, 50&nbsp;m. N., the rest by
+rail.</h6>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
+<span class = "miles to">103</span>
+BONIFACIO. The diligence, after passing the Col Finocchio, 354 feet,
+2½&nbsp;miles N. from Bonifacio, the Maison Francola, 7&nbsp;miles, the
+bridge across the Stabiacco, 16 miles, and the Col Mattonara, 17½ miles
+(whence the Route Forestière, No. 11, ascends 14 miles west into the
+forest of the Ospedale), arrives in 3 hours&nbsp;at</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "portovecchio" id = "portovecchio">
+<span class = "headnote">Porto-Vecchio.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">27</span>
+<span class = "miles to">76</span>
+PORTO-VECCHIO, pop. 2740. Hôtel Amis. Surrounded by its old walls, and
+at the head of a beautiful gulf. The surrounding country is fertile, but
+unhealthy during the hot weather, on account of the miasma rising from
+the morasses and lagoons. To the N. of Porto, the mountains still
+approach near to the sea; but beyond Solenzara (where the diligence
+halts) 41½ miles from Bonifacio, they recede and leave free those great
+undulating plains which characterise the eastern coast of
+Corsica&mdash;plains almost uninhabited and covered with heaths. From
+the north side of the Travo commences a <a name = "coastlakes31" id =
+"coastlakes31">series of large lakes</a> swarming with fish and a kind
+of cockle. They are separated from the sea by long narrow sandbanks,
+like earthen break-waters. The malaria prevails from June to October,
+but even then only the night should be avoided in travelling along this
+coast. The road after passing by the hamlet of Favona, 33&nbsp;m.,
+arrives&nbsp;at</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "solenzara" id = "solenzara">
+<span class = "headnote">Solenzara.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">45</span>
+<span class = "miles to">58</span>
+SOLENZARA.
+<span class = "smaller">Whence a wheel road extends westwards into the
+forest of Bavella by the <a name = "col_bavella31" id =
+"col_bavella31">Col Bavella</a> 18½&nbsp;m. S.W., and the Col Scalella,
+22&nbsp;m., 2982 ft. to <a name = "zonza31" id = "zonza31">Zonza</a>,
+24½&nbsp;m. from Solenzara; 4&nbsp;m. farther is the village of
+S.&nbsp;Gavino di Carbini, 2292 ft., and <ins class = "correction" title
+= "error for ‘another’?">other</ins> 2½&nbsp;m.
+<span class = "pagenum">32</span>
+<a name = "page32" id = "page32"> </a>
+<!--png 052-->
+the village of <a name = "levie32" id = "levie32">Levie</a>; 30&nbsp;m.
+S.W. from Solenzara, and 10½ from Propriano is <a name = "st_lucia32" id
+= "st_lucia32">S.&nbsp;<ins class = "correction"
+title = "text reads ‘Lucie’">Lucia</ins> de Tallano</a>,
+on the highroad to Aullene (see <a
+href = "#st_lucia27">p.&nbsp;27</a>), and for continuation of this road
+to Propriano see <a href =
+"#propriano_to_solenzara">p.&nbsp;26</a>.</span> </p>
+
+<p>The road to Bastia, after passing the Travo, 44&nbsp;m., Vicchiseri,
+46&nbsp;m., and Casamozza, 48½&nbsp;m., arrives at the railway
+station&nbsp;of</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "ghisonaccia" id = "ghisonaccia">
+<span class = "headnote">Ghisonaccia.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">53</span>
+<span class = "miles to">50</span>
+GHISONACCIA pop. 850. On the Fium Orbo, 36&nbsp;m. S.E. from Corté.
+<span class = "smaller">From this a department road of 4½&nbsp;m. leads
+to the <a name = "pietrapola32" id = "pietrapola32">hot sulphurous baths
+of Pietrapola</a>, with a large hotel in a healthy situation.</span>
+</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+From Ghisonaccia a carriage road extends N.W. to the villages of <a name
+= "poggiodinazza" id = "poggiodinazza">Poggio-di-Nazza</a>, 9½&nbsp;m.,
+and <a name = "lugodinazza" id = "lugodinazza">Lugo-di-Nazza</a>,
+11½&nbsp;m. From Ghisonaccia railway station a forest road extends
+18&nbsp;m. N.W. to Ghisoni, where it joins the high road between Sartène
+and Vivario (<a href = "#vivario29">p.&nbsp;29</a>). The southern
+prolongation of this road leads to Zicavo, Petreto, Bicchisano, and <a
+name = "portopollo" id = "portopollo">Portopollo</a>, on the Gulf of
+Valinco.</p>
+
+<p>Forty-six&nbsp;m. from Bastia is Casabianda. H.&nbsp;Perett; a
+village situated on a well-cultivated estate belonging to the
+government; formerly used as an agricultural penitentiary for juvenile
+criminals. In the hot season it is safer to pass the night at Casabianda
+than at Aleria.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "aleria" id = "aleria">
+<span class = "headnote">Aleria.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">58¼</span>
+<span class = "miles to">44¾</span>
+ALERIA. Inn. The capital of Corsica till the invasion of the Saracens in
+the 4th cent., now a poor village with an old Genoese fort, situated at
+the mouth of the Tavignano, 1¼&nbsp;m. from the Etang de Diane. Ancient
+Aleria, the colony founded by the dictator Sulla about 82 <span class =
+"smallroman">B.C.</span>, occupied both banks of the Tavignano, which
+waters one of the finest plains in the world, where winter is unknown.
+The site of the town was well selected. The population was probably
+20,000.</p>
+
+<p>It was at Aleria that <a name = "theodore" id = "theodore">Theodore
+Neuhoff</a>, a native of Altona, in Germany, landed to have himself
+proclaimed King of Corsica, March 1736. He died a pauper in London, and
+was buried in an obscure corner of St. Anne’s churchyard, Soho. On a
+mural tablet against the exterior wall, west end, is the following
+epitaph written by Horace Walpole:&mdash;“Near this place is interred
+Theodore, King of Corsica, who died in this parish, Dec. 11, 1756,
+immediately after leaving the King’s Bench prison, by the benefit of the
+Act of Insolvency. In consequence of which, he registered his kingdom of
+Corsica for the use of his creditors.� His capital was <a href =
+"#cervione33">Cervione</a>. The <a name = "lake_diana" id =
+"lake_diana">lake de Diane</a> is a great sheet of salt water with one
+narrow opening to the sea. It formed the harbour of Aleria, and was
+provided with quays, of which a vestige still remains. The lake contains
+an island 460 yards in circumference, composed of oyster shells covered
+with luxurious vegetation. Fish, and a cockle a species of Venerupis,
+inhabit the brackish water of the lake.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">33</span>
+<a name = "page33" id = "page33"> </a>
+<!--png 053-->
+
+<h5 class = "smallcaps"><a name = "aleria_to_corte" id =
+"aleria_to_corte">
+Aleria to Corté.</a></h5>
+
+<h6>Coach every other day; fare, 5&nbsp;francs; time, 4 hours.</h6>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Thirty-one and a half&nbsp;m. N.W., by a picturesque road up the course
+of the Tavignano, passing Cateraggio, 2&nbsp;m., Rotani, 5&nbsp;m.,
+commencement of bridle path leading N. to Tallone, 7½&nbsp;m., Tox,
+9½&nbsp;m., Campo, 11&nbsp;m., and Moïta, 12½&nbsp;m. Seven&nbsp;m.
+farther up the main road a ramification extends N. to Giuncaggio,
+4½&nbsp;m., and to <a name = "pancheraccia" id =
+"pancheraccia">Pancheraccia</a>, 5½&nbsp;m.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Up the main road, 21½&nbsp;m. from Aleria, and near the bridge across
+the Vecchio, a bridle path strikes off S. to Rospigliani, 5&nbsp;m., and
+Vezzani, 6½&nbsp;m. A little higher a ramification extends
+5&nbsp;m.&nbsp;W. to <a name = "serraggio33" id =
+"serraggio33">Serraggio</a> (<a href = "#serraggio8">p.&nbsp;8</a>). The
+road, after passing several other ramifications with the Corté and
+Ajaccio road, arrives at Corté, <a href = "#corte">p.&nbsp;8</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<a name = "puzzichello" id = "aleria_to_puzzichello">Ten m. W. from
+Aleria</a> are the cold saline sulphurous springs of, 190 ft., considered
+efficacious in the cure of syphilitic diseases, resembling in this
+property the water of Aulus in the Pyrenees. See Black’s <i>South
+France</i>, West Half (Pyrenees).</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "prunete" id = "prunete">
+<span class =
+"headnote">Prunete.&mdash;Cervione.&mdash;Alesani.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">79</span>
+<span class = "miles to">24</span>
+PRUNETE. <i>Inn:</i> Gaetan. Junction with road to Ponte alla Leccia,
+44&nbsp;m. N.W. (<a href = "#leccia9">p.&nbsp;9</a>), leading through a
+region of chestnut trees and past many villages on the mountains, built
+chiefly on terraces. A&nbsp;coach runs from the station to Alesani
+called also Castagneto 1938 ft. 14&nbsp;m.&nbsp;W.;
+<span class = "smaller">ascending by <a name = "muchieto33" id =
+"muchieto33">Muchieto</a> 808 ft. 3¾&nbsp;m., <a name = "cervione33" id
+= "cervione33">Cervione</a> 1073 ft. 4½&nbsp;m., pop. 1000; <i>Inns:</i>
+France: Voyageurs: an untidy village, once the capital of King
+Theodore’s realm. From Cervione the road describes a long detour to the
+bridge across the Chebbia, whence it ascends to <a name = "cotone33" id
+= "cotone33">Cotone</a> 1008 ft 6¼&nbsp;m., the Col d’Aja 1236 ft., and
+<a name = "ortale33" id = "ortale33">Ortale</a> 1489 ft., 1¾&nbsp;m.
+from Alesani. Good red wine is made in the neighbourhood of Cervione. <a
+name = "alesani" id = "alesani">The dirty little village of Castagneto
+or Alesani</a> is picturesquely situated on the side of a mountain
+overlooking a valley covered with chestnut trees. The diligence stops at
+an inn, where bread, eggs and coffee with goats’ milk can be had and a
+comfortable bed. A char-a-banc from this inn to Piedicroce (Orezza)
+costs 10 frs., time 2½ hours, 11 miles. For Orezza, see <a href =
+"#orezza">p.&nbsp;34</a>. Passengers from Prunete to Piedicroce or
+Stazzona should not stop at Cervione but continue the diligence route to
+Castagneto, whence start next morning. The drive between Castagneto and
+Piedicroce, 11 miles, is by far the most beautiful part of the road. <a
+name = "col_arcarotta33" id = "col_arcarotta33">The highest part of the
+Col d’Arcarotta</a> is a narrow ridge between the valleys of Orezza and
+Ortia, commanding a charming view. See also <a href =
+"#col_arcarotta35">p.&nbsp;35</a>.</span> </p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">87¼</span>
+<span class = "miles to">24¾</span>
+<a name = "padulella" id = "padulella">PADULELLA</a>. Four and a quarter
+miles west by a good road is <a name = "st_nicolao" id =
+"st_nicolao">San Nicolao</a>, pop. 600.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "stazzona" id = "stazzona">
+<span class = "headnote">Stazzona.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">84¼</span>
+<span class = "miles to">18¾</span>
+<a name = "folelli" id = "folelli">FOLELLI-Orezza station.</a>
+<span class = "smaller">Junction with road to Piedicroce 14¼&nbsp;m.
+S.W.; by the course of the Fium’alto, the Chestnut country, and the
+village of Stazzona, 13¼&nbsp;m. from Folelli, ¼&nbsp;m. from
+<span class = "pagenum">34</span>
+<a name = "page34" id = "page34"> </a>
+<!--png 054-->
+and 355 ft. under <a name = "piedicroce34" id =
+"piedicroce34">Piedicroce</a>, and 1&nbsp;m. from and 200 ft. above the
+spring of Orezza. The coach from the station stops at Stazzona, pop.
+250. <i>Hotels</i>: *Paix, Casino. Very fine oleanders in the gardens.
+On the opposite side of the valley of the Fium’alto is Granajola, with
+the establishment Manfredi, 2016 ft. above the sea and 220 feet above
+the spring. The hotel Manfredi has the most select society, is the
+largest house, and its road from the spring is the least dusty; but as
+no public coach goes there it is necessary to hire a private conveyance
+either at Stazzona or Piedicroce, 3&nbsp;or 4 miles. The charge in all
+the hotels is 7&nbsp;frs. per day, not including coffee or tea in the
+morning. The hotels of Stazzona and the hotel Manfredi are the most
+convenient for the Spa drinkers; those of Piedicroce are too
+distant.</span> </p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "orezza" id = "orezza">
+<span class = "headnote">Orezza.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The Orezza spring is in the centre of a small terrace in the narrow
+valley of the Fium’alto, whose steep banks are covered with chestnut
+trees, and ascended by dusty winding roads. The water is a bicarbonate
+chalybeate, with an agreeable amount of free carbonic acid gas.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "vescovato" id = "vescovato">
+<span class = "headnote">Vescovato.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">89</span>
+<span class = "miles to">14</span>
+VESCOVATO STATION. Town 1¼&nbsp;m. W., pop. 1500.
+<span class = "smaller">*H.&nbsp;de Progreso in the large “Place� where
+all the coaches stop, near a fountain of pure gushing water, cold even
+in summer. The rather untidy town of Vescovato is almost hidden in the
+corner of a valley, 550 ft. above the sea, by woods of vigorous olive
+and chestnut trees. From it a <a name = "vescovato_to_porta" id =
+"vescovato_to_porta">coach starts daily to Porta</a>,
+15&nbsp;m.&nbsp;W., by a bad, dusty, jolting road, passing through <a
+name = "venzolasca" id = "venzolasca">Venzolasca</a>, pop. 1300, on the
+top of a hill, 732 ft., 1½&nbsp;m. from Vescovato. Three&nbsp;m. farther
+a road, left, 1&nbsp;m., leads to <a name = "porri" id =
+"porri">Porri</a>, 1718 ft., pop. 300. 7½&nbsp;m. from Vescovato is the
+Col S.&nbsp;Agostino, and then follow, 8&nbsp;m., <a name =
+"silvareccio" id = "silvareccio">Silvareccio</a>, 2198 ft., pop. 550;
+8½&nbsp;m., <a name = "piano" id = "piano">Piano</a>, 2230 ft., pop.
+170; <a name = "casabianca" id = "casabianca">Casabianca</a>, 4&nbsp;m.
+farther, 2133 ft.; and then <a name = "porta" id = "porta">Porta</a>,
+pop. 630; <i>Inn:</i> H.&nbsp;Franceschi, in the “Place,� opposite the
+church, where the coach stops. In July and August the coach goes on to
+Piedicroce.</span> </p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "sidenote to"><br>BASTIA</span>
+<span class = "miles from">91</span>
+<span class = "miles to">12</span>
+<a name = "golo" id = "golo">PONT DU GOLO</a>. A little more than
+3&nbsp;miles from the bridge, at the mouth of the river, stood the town
+of <a name = "mariana" id = "mariana">Mariana</a>, founded by Marius
+(<span class = "smallroman">B.</span> 155, <span class =
+"smallroman">D.</span> 86 <span class = "smallroman">B.C.</span>), where
+Seneca most probably spent his exile, and of which there remain only a
+few insignificant fragments on the beach. In the vicinity are the ruins
+of a chapel, and about a mile farther those of the church, called La
+Canonica, with 2 aisles and a nave 100 feet long and 40 wide, ornamented
+with rows of pillars of the Doric order. Both church and chapel are in
+the Pisan style.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "casamozza" id = "casamozza">At Casamozza Station</a>,
+12½&nbsp;m.&nbsp;S. from <a name = "bastia_to_aleria" id =
+"bastia_to_aleria">Bastia, the Aleria</a> railway joins the one from
+Corté.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class = "sidenote from"><br>BONIFACIO</span>
+<span class = "miles from">103</span>
+BASTIA. See <a href = "#bastia">p.&nbsp;10</a>.</p>
+
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "leccia_to_piedicroce" id =
+"leccia_to_piedicroce">
+Ponte alla Leccia to Piedicroce.</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Eighteen miles S.E. by “Courrier� daily. Fare 3&nbsp;frs. Time 5 hours,
+by a mountain road, making immense circuits round by the
+<span class = "pagenum">35</span>
+<a name = "page35" id = "page35"> </a>
+<!--png 055-->
+heads of ravines among rich pastures and great chestnut and beech
+trees.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Nine miles from the Ponte is <a name = "morosaglia" id =
+"morosaglia"><b>Morosaglia</b></a>, pop. 1060, with an inn, where the
+coach stops. A conglomeration of hamlets on the slopes of a mountain,
+one of which, <a name = "stretta" id = "stretta">Stretta</a>, was the
+birthplace of Pascal Paoli. 2&nbsp;m. farther is the summit of the <a
+name = "col_prato" id = "col_prato">Col de Prato</a> with an inn, 3215
+ft., 2850 ft. below, or 3 hours from the top of San Pietro, commanding a
+magnificent view of the Castagniccia or the Chestnut country, and the
+islands of Monte Christo, Pianosa, and Elba, floating in the haze
+between sky and water. See <a href = "#map1">map on fly-leaf</a>.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "castagniccia" id = "castagniccia">
+<span class = "headnote">Castagniccia.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The <b>Castagniccia</b> may be said to lie between the Golo and the
+Tavignano, bounded on the W. by the railway. The chestnut trees are not
+so famous for their size as for the qualify of their fruit.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The coach having passed the hamlet of Campana arrives at</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "piedicroce" id = "piedicroce">
+<span class = "headnote">Piedicroce.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+<b>Piedicroce</b>, pop. 600, several inns, 2104 ft., 18&nbsp;m. from
+Ponte alla Leccia, and 650 ft. above the spring of Orezza by a winding,
+dusty, bad wheel road, passing Stazzona 1978 ft. above the sea.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Although Piedicroce is not a suitable place for those who come to drink
+the Orezza water, it is an excellent centre for excursions, the
+favourite one being to the top of <a name = "mt_st_pietro" id =
+"mt_st_pietro"><b>Monte S.&nbsp;Pietro</b></a> 5795 ft. in 3 hours, by
+the cabins of Tajalto 4600&nbsp;ft., and a beech forest. Mule to nearly
+the top. Guide and mule, 5&nbsp;frs. See also above.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Coach in July and August to the Vescovato station by Porta, <a href =
+"#vescovato_to_porta">p.&nbsp;34</a>.</p>
+
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "piedicroce_to_prunete" id =
+"piedicroce_to_prunete">Piedicroce to Prunete <span class =
+"plaintext">Station, 26&nbsp;m. S.E.</span></a></h5>
+
+<h6>The continuation of the road from Ponte alla Leccia.</h6>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+From Piedicroce the road passes by Pied’Orezza, 2106 ft., 1¾&nbsp;m.
+from Piedicroce, Piedipartino, 2124 ft., 2&nbsp;m.; Carcheto,
+2172&nbsp;ft., 3m.; <a name = "brustico" id = "brustico">Brustico</a>,
+2293 ft. 4&nbsp;m.; the <a name = "col_arcarotta35" id =
+"col_arcarotta35">Col d’Arcarotta</a>, 2698&nbsp;ft., 5¼&nbsp;m. from
+Piedicroce, between the richly wooded valleys of the Fium’alto and the
+Alesani, and commanding a very fine view of both. From this the road
+gradually descends to <a name = "prunete35" id =
+"prunete35">Prunete</a>, the most beautiful part being from this Col to
+Castagneto called also Alesani, where there is an inn and whence a coach
+starts daily to Prunete Railway Station.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "alesani35" id = "alesani35">
+<span class = "headnote">Castagneto.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Seven miles from Piedicroce and 2&nbsp;from the Col is Ortia,
+2638&nbsp;ft.,
+pop. 400, hidden among <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘chesnut’">chestnut</ins> trees; <a name = "felce" id =
+"felce">Felce</a>, 2570&nbsp;ft., 8¾&nbsp;m., pop. 400; Pied Alesani
+11&nbsp;m.; Querceto, 2041&nbsp;ft., and <b>Castagneto</b> or Alesani,
+1938&nbsp;ft., 12&nbsp;m. from Piedicroce and 14 from Prunete Railway
+Station, the principal village in this valley.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+A little below Castagneto, at the commencement of this chestnut wooded
+valley is <a name = "ortale35" id = "ortale35">Ortale</a>,
+1489&nbsp;ft., pop. 280. The coach then having passed <a name =
+"cotone35" id = "cotone35">Cotone</a> 1008 ft., 19¼&nbsp;m., pop. 800,
+and having crossed the little bridge over the stream Chebbia arrives at
+<a name = "cervione" id = "cervione">Cervione</a>, <i>Inn</i>, France:
+1073&nbsp;ft., 21¾&nbsp;m. from Piedicroce, and 4¼ from Prunete. From
+Cervione another coach descends to Prunete Railway Station by <a name =
+"muchieto35" id = "muchieto35">Muchieto</a> 820 ft. Prunete consists of
+a few houses near the beach, resorted to by bathers in summer, situated
+on the highway between Bastia and Bonifacio. See also <a href =
+"#prunete">p.&nbsp;33</a>.</p>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">36</span>
+<a name = "page36" id = "page36"> </a>
+<!--png 056-->
+
+<h5 class = "itinerary"><a name = "solenzara_to_sartene" id =
+"solenzara_to_sartene">Solenzara to Sartène,</a></h5>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+46&nbsp;m. S.W. This forest road, No. 4, ascends the valley of the
+Solenzara, crosses the great S.E. range at the <a name = "col_bavella36"
+id = "col_bavella36">Col de Bavella</a>, descends into the valley of the
+Rizzanese, passes through the villages of Zonza, San Gavino, Levie, and
+Ste. Lucie, and joins the highroad between Ajaccio and Bonifacio at the
+miles tone 76·690 (47¾&nbsp;m.) from Ajaccio, 3¾&nbsp;m. from Sartène,
+and 42&nbsp;m. from Solenzara.</p>
+
+<p>The road, after passing up by the S. side of the river through olive
+groves and “maquis,� arrives at the Col and <a name =
+"maison_castelluccio" id = "maison_castelluccio">Maison de Cantonniers
+de Castelluccio</a>, 210 ft., 4&nbsp;m. from Solenzara. Two&nbsp;m.
+farther by the Pont de Ghiadole, the road crosses the Solenzara by the
+Calzatojo bridge, 6&nbsp;m. from <a href = "#solenzara">Solenzara</a>,
+340 ft., winds upward by the deep gully of the Fiumicello, which having
+crossed by the bridge 7¼&nbsp;m. from Solenzara, ascends a steep winding
+road bordered with great trees to the <a name = "maison_rocchiopinzuto"
+id = "maison_rocchiopinzuto">Maison de Cantonniers de
+Rocchio-Pinzuto</a>, 8¾&nbsp;m., 1060 ft., at the foot of the great
+cliff of that name.</p>
+
+<p>The road still winding upwards passes the immense wall of reddish
+cliffs called the Rochers de Bavella before arriving at the <a name =
+"col_larone36" id = "col_larone36">Col de Larone</a>10¾&nbsp;m., 2056
+ft. The road, still winding, ascends a huge promontory between the
+torrents Fiumicello and S.&nbsp;Pietro, separating into two distinct
+parts the forest of Bavella, and crosses the Pont de Bocintoro, 1510
+ft., 12&nbsp;m. A little farther, in a wild yet beautiful situation, is
+the <a name = "maison_arghiavara" id = "maison_arghiavara">Maison de
+Cantonniers d’Arghiavara</a>. From the Pont 1½&nbsp;m. is the better
+house, la <a name = "maison_alza" id = "maison_alza">maison forestière
+de l’Alza</a>, commanding superb views, situated among great trees and
+nursery gardens.</p>
+
+<p>The ascent from this is by a steep road, almost impracticable for
+vehicles, through a forest of the stateliest and oldest pines in
+Corsica.</p>
+
+<p>18&nbsp;m. from Solenzara and 28 from Sartène is the <a name =
+"maison_bavella" id = "maison_bavella">Maison de Cantonniers de
+Bavella</a>, 3885 ft., near the summit of the Col Bavella, 4068 ft. In
+this house of refuge there is generally comfortable accommodation and a
+supply of provisions. The surrounding huts are occupied in July and
+August by people from the plains about Solenzara, who come here to
+escape the fever-producing malaria. The house commands, even from the
+windows, grand views.</p>
+
+<p>On the other side of the Col, 550 ft. below it and 2¼&nbsp;m. from
+it, is the <a name = "maison_ballatojo" id = "maison_ballatojo">Maison
+de Cantonniers de Ballatojo</a>, from which the road descends amidst
+great pines mixed with a few oaks and ilexes, in view of the Asinao
+forest and of the lofty granite pinnacled precipices, 10&nbsp;m. long,
+between Mt. Colva, 4520 ft., and the Point Tintinaja, 6658&nbsp;ft.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "zonza36" id = "zonza36">Zonza</a>, good inn, pop. 1040,
+height 2582 ft., 24¼&nbsp;m. from Solenzara and 21¾&nbsp;m. from
+Sartène, hidden among chestnut trees and conveniently situated for
+visiting the forests of Zonza, Asinao, and Bavella.</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">37</span>
+<a name = "page37" id = "page37"> </a>
+<!--png 057-->
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "st_gavino" id = "st_gavino">
+<span class = "headnote">S.&nbsp;Gavino.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>3½&nbsp;m. beyond is San Gavino di <a name = "carbini" id =
+"carbini">Carbini</a>, pop. 770, height 2238 ft., a poor miserable
+village, where there existed in 1365 a sect of socialists, with whom
+even the women and children were held in common, and by whom were
+committed frightful abominations.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "levie" id = "levie">
+<span class = "headnote">Levie.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>30&nbsp;m. from Solenzara and 16&nbsp;m. from Sartène is Levie,
+consisting of various hamlets. Inn where the coach, running between this
+and Sartène, stops. Pop, 2040, height 2238 ft This village, easily
+approached, is situated among mountains abounding with game. It commands
+superb views, and makes in April a very pleasant residence. In winter it
+is rather cold. On the road between Levie and Santa Lucia di Tallano, 5
+½&nbsp;m. from the Col d’Aja Vignarsa, 2408 ft., are seen the valley of
+the Rizzanese and the Gulfs of Valinco and Ajaccio. On the grassy table
+lands of the Col d’Aja are many rare flowers, among others a species of
+red gladiolus.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "st_lucia37" id = "st_lucia37">
+<span class = "headnote">S.&nbsp;Lucia di Tallano.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>5½ m. W. from Levie and 11¼ from Sartène is Santa Lucia di <a name =
+"tallano" id = "tallano">Tallano</a>, pop. 1300, Inn where the Sartène
+and Levie coach stops. S.&nbsp;Lucia is built in terraces on the hills
+rising from the Fiumicicoli. Church 14th cent. The wines grown in this
+neighbourhood command good prices in the Corsican market.</p>
+
+<p>Below, on the Fiumicicoli, is a hot sulphurous spring. On the way
+down to the river by the sides of the Point Campolaccia, near a place
+called Campolajo, is <a name = "campolajo" id = "campolajo">beautiful
+hornblende</a>, <a href = "#amphibole">page&nbsp;27</a>.</p>
+
+<p>From Santa Lucia the road leads southwards by the Rizzanese to
+Sartène, <a href = "#sartene">p.&nbsp;27</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+<!--end div = itinerary-->
+
+<hr class = "mid">
+
+<h4 class = "section sans"><a name = "history" id = "history">
+SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF CORSICA.</a></h4>
+
+<p>It is not known who the original inhabitants of Corsica were. The
+Phocæans of Ionia were the first civilised people that established
+settlements in Corsica. About the year 560 <span class =
+"smallroman">B.C.</span> they landed on the island, and founded at the
+mouth of the Tavignano the city of Aleria, which after a short
+occupation they were compelled to abandon. After an interval of a few
+years they again returned, rebuilt Aleria, which they fortified, and
+endeavoured to maintain their ground against the natives. After a
+struggle of some years they were again compelled to leave the island.
+The next foreign occupants of Corsica were the Tuscans, who founded the
+city of Nicæa, but they in their turn were compelled to give way before
+the growing maritime power of the Carthaginians, whose jurisdiction in
+the island was unquestioned till the beginning of the first Punic War.
+On that occasion the Romans sent out a fleet, drove the Carthaginians
+from the island, and exacted
+<span class = "pagenum">38</span>
+<a name = "page38" id = "page38"> </a>
+<!--png 058-->
+at least a nominal homage from the native population. They did not,
+however, fully establish their power here till about thirty years later,
+and even then rebellions and revolts were of constant occurrence.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote">
+<span class = "headnote">Roman Colonies.</span></p>
+
+<p>The first step made towards the real subjugation of the island was
+the establishment of the two colonies on its eastern coast-that of
+Aleria by Sulla and that of Mariana by Marius. In the time of the
+emperors the island had fallen into disrepute among the Romans, by whom
+it was used chiefly as a place of banishment for political offenders.
+One of the most distinguished of these sufferers was the younger Seneca,
+who spent in this island eight years of banishment ending with 49 <span
+class = "smallroman">A.D.</span></p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "corsica_arms" id = "corsica_arms">
+<span class = "headnote">Arms.</span></a></p>
+<p>On the downfall of the Roman empire in the West, Corsica passed into
+the hands of the Vandals. These barbarians were driven out by
+Belisarius, but after his death, 565 <span class =
+"smallroman">A.D.</span>, the resistless hordes of Attila once more
+gained possession of the island. Since that period it has successively
+owned the dominion of the Goths, the Saracens, the Pisans and the
+Genoese. The impress of the last is to be found in the style of the
+church architecture, while the armorial crest of the island, a&nbsp;<a
+name = "moors_head" id = "moors_head"><b>Moor’s head</b></a>, with a
+band across the brow, dates from the expedition of the Saracen king,
+Sanza Ancisa.</p>
+
+<p>The <a name = "corsica_patroness" id = "corsica_patroness">patroness
+of Corsica</a>, the “Protectrice de la Corse,� is Santa <a name =
+"st_devota" id = "st_devota">Devota</a>; who is also the patron saint of
+Monaco. The Corsicans often style the Virgin Mary simply La Santa; and
+in their common exclamation Santa! Maria is understood.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "sampiero38" id = "sampiero38">
+<span class = "headnote">Sampiero.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>Among the most renowned and intrepid patriots in the struggle of the
+Corsicans to free themselves from the Genoese was Sampiero, born of poor
+parents towards the end of the 15th cent, in Dominicacci, one of the
+hamlets which compose Bastelica. His house having been burned down by
+the Genoese, the inhabitants in the 18th cent. constructed a new one on
+the same site, on which Mr. Wyse, an Irishman, affixed a tablet with an
+inscription in 1855, expressing his admiration of the man. After serving
+with great distinction in the armies of the Italian princes and in those
+of Francis I., King of France, Sampiero returned to Corsica in 1547 and
+married the fair <a name = "vanina38" id = "vanina38">Vanina</a>,
+heiress of Ornano, belonging to one of the oldest families in the
+island.</p>
+
+<p>Shortly after the marriage the Corsicans, led by Sampiero, revolted
+against the tyranny of the Banking Company of St. George of Genoa, and,
+assisted by the French, under General Thermes, overthrew them after six
+years of hard fighting and much bloodshed, in which Sampiero and his
+peasant army bore by far the greatest share. All, however, they had
+gained at such immense sacrifice was completely lost to them by the
+treaty of Chateau Cambresis, 1559, by which France agreed
+<span class = "pagenum">39</span>
+<a name = "page39" id = "page39"> </a>
+<!--png 059-->
+to restore Corsica to Genoa. Sampiero and his family had to leave the
+island. Such was the virulent and implacable hatred Sampiero bore to the
+Genoese, that he with his own hand, in cold blood, strangled mercilessly
+his trembling wife three years after (1562) in Marseilles, for having
+allowed herself, in his absence, to be persuaded to make an arrangement
+with the Genoese to save the patrimony of her children. Sampiero escaped
+with impunity, although he buried his murdered wife publicly, and with
+pomp, in the church of St. Francis at Marseilles.</p>
+
+<p>Antonio Francesco, the younger son, who was, when a mere child, with
+his mother when she was murdered, was afterwards assassinated at Rome by
+a Frenchman, whom he had insulted while playing at cards.</p>
+
+<p>On the 12th June 1564 Sampiero landed at the Gulf of Valinco with a
+band of 20 Corsicans and 25 Frenchmen, to make another desperate attempt
+to free Corsica from the hated yoke. After a five years’ life-and-death
+struggle, fired by a feverish thirst for revenge, the Corsicans had to
+yield to the might of Genoa, supported by well-drilled Italian, German
+and Spanish mercenaries, commanded by their greatest generals, Doria,
+Centurione and Spinola, and aided by a powerful fleet.</p>
+
+<p>On the 17th January 1567 Sampiero was slain in an ambuscade laid for
+him in the defile of Cauro, into which he had been led by forged letters
+brought him by the monk Ambrosius of Bastelica.</p>
+
+<p>His elder son Alfonso d’Ornano continued the struggle after his
+father’s death, till the exhausted state of Corsica compelled him to
+desist and to accept a general amnesty proclaimed by the Genoese
+governor George Doria in 1569. Alfonso d’Ornano was afterwards created
+“Maréchal de France.�</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "paoli" id = "paoli">
+<span class = "headnote">Pascal Paoli.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>From 1755 the <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘Corscians’">Corsicans</ins>, led by the brave Pascal Paoli,
+carried on the struggle for their independence against the Genoese, who
+were occasionally assisted by the French. On the 15th May 1768 the
+former sold their presumed claims to the island to the French, who ended
+this war of subjugation by the terrible battle of <a name =
+"pontenovo39" id = "pontenovo39">Ponte Nuovo</a>, 9th May 1769. On the
+llth of June Paoli left Porto-Vecchio for London; where, at the instance
+of the Duke of Grafton, then prime minister of England, he received an
+annual pension of £1200.</p>
+
+<p>After Corsica had been made one of the departments of France he was
+invited in 1790, by the National Assembly, to take the supreme command
+in the island. On his arrival at Paris (3d&nbsp;April 1790), on his way
+to Corsica, he was fêted as the Washington of Europe, and Lafayette was
+constantly by his side; while, on his arrival at Marseilles, he was
+received by a deputation, among whom was Napoleon. In July 1790 he
+landed at <a name = "macinaggio39" id = "macinaggio39">Macinaggio</a>,
+on the east side of Cap Corse.</p>
+
+<p><span class = "pagenum">40</span>
+<a name = "page40" id = "page40"> </a>
+<!--png 060-->
+The execution of the king and the cruelties and excesses of the
+Convention having shocked the philanthropic spirit of Paoli and
+alienated his sympathies, he organised a revolt to separate Corsica from
+France, and succeeded by the aid of the English fleet, 20th July 1794,
+when Calvi, the last of the forts, surrendered. On the 10th of June 1794
+the Corsicans declared that they would unite their country to Great
+Britain, but that it was to remain independent, and to be governed by a
+viceroy according to their own constitution.</p>
+
+<p>The English, from ignorance, managed the affairs of the island so
+badly, that when in 1796 Napoleon sent troops against them, they were
+joined by the Corsicans, who together forced the English to leave the
+island. Not only had a certain Gilbert Elliot been named viceroy instead
+of Paoli, but this same man having written to the Government that it was
+necessary for the safety of the English to remove Paoli from the island,
+George III. wrote Paoli a letter inviting him to return to England and
+to his court. It is suspected that Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, president of
+the Council of State, under the short viceroyship of Elliot, influenced,
+for his own ends or from jealousy, the English in Corsica against
+Paoli.</p>
+
+<p>Paoli lived twelve years more in London, died peacefully on 5th
+February 1807 at the age of 82, was buried in St. Pancras churchyard,
+and a small monument to his memory was placed in Westminster Abbey. He
+bequeathed to four professors of the intended Corté University salaries
+of £50 a year each, but as it was never established the money was given
+to the Ecole Paoli in Corté, attended by 120 pupils.</p>
+
+<p>Since the expulsion of the English, the French have remained in
+undisturbed possession of Corsica. The English occupation lasted from
+1794 to 1796.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "corsica_character" id =
+"corsica_character">
+<span class = "headnote">Character.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>The Corsicans look to the Government for the improvement of their
+island far more than to their own efforts, for they themselves are
+neither industrious nor enterprising. The roads, railways, bridges and
+other public works are constructed chiefly by Italian labourers. The
+women do the drudgery both in their homes and on the fields, carrying
+great loads on their heads, as the mules do on their backs; but bestow
+little labour on the cleanliness of their children and dwellings, and do
+not make good domestic servants. In many small towns women are the bread
+bakers and assistant butchers. The villages, excepting in Cape Corse,
+are untidy. The use of the bath is almost unknown to young and old, rich
+and poor.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "vendetta" id = "vendetta">
+<span class = "headnote">Vendetta.</span></a></p>
+
+<p>The tendency to take summary vengeance, called vendetta, still
+<span class = "pagenum">41</span>
+<a name = "page41" id = "page41"> </a>
+<!--png 061-->
+exists in the villages; where the people having no social amusements,
+nothing to read, nor any other resource than cards during the winter
+nights, are apt to quarrel over trifles; which, fanned by their local
+petty jealousies, assisted often by the generous nature of their wine,
+ripen into deadly feuds.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote">
+<span class = "headnote">Oaks.</span></p>
+
+<p>The staple food of the majority of the inhabitants, as well as of the
+horses and mules, during a great part of the year, is the <a name =
+"chestnut41" id = "chestnut41">chestnut</a>. For domestic purposes it is
+mostly ground, when it costs only about half the price of wheat flour,
+which is procured chiefly from Marseilles, Corsica itself producing very
+little. The ease with which the harvest of chestnuts is annually
+obtained tends to foster indolence and deaden enterprise among the
+peasantry. The one great danger to which the generous chestnut trees are
+exposed is a conflagration. Besides olives, pines, beeches and
+chestnuts, there are also important forests of <a name = "evergreen" id
+= "evergreen">evergreen oaks</a>, the <a name = "quercus" id =
+"quercus"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"error for ‘Quercus ilex’">Quercus Ilex</ins></a>, called also the holm
+oak. It has abundance of dark-green ovate leaves, mostly prickly at the
+margin; the acorns are oblong on short stalks; the stem grows to the
+height of 80 ft.; the wood is dark-brown and hard, weighing 70 lbs. the
+cubic foot, while the same of the Quercus ruber or British oak weighs
+only 55 lbs., and the tree attains a vast age. The cork oak, Quercus
+suber, grows either singly among other trees or in groups, principally
+in the southern parts of the island. The bark is of little commercial
+importance.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "agriculture" id = "agriculture">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Agriculture.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The inhabitants do not assist nature. Their seed potatoes are of an
+inferior class, their fruit trees receive little attention, very few of
+the vineyards are carefully cultivated, and their sheep, goats and pigs
+are of poor breeds. Of late years many have taken to the growing of
+lemons and citrons; which in a good year yield a very handsome profit;
+but the harvest, through untimely frosts, is precarious. The
+headquarters of this culture is Cape Corse. The olive trees yield a more
+secure though less remunerative harvest. That terrible scourge the
+phylloxera has got among the vineyards, where it is committing its usual
+havoc.</p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+The drives and pedestrian excursions about Corsica are superb,
+especially along the east side and up the centre by Sartène, Zicavo and
+Ghisoni (<a href = "#sartene">p.&nbsp;27</a>), and the road between
+Calvi and Ponte alla Leccia (<a href =
+"#leccia_to_calvi">p.&nbsp;20</a>). There are inns in all the large
+villages, though the only good and comfortable hotels are in
+Ajaccio.</p>
+
+<p class = "headnote"><a name = "maison" id = "maison">
+<span class = "headnote">
+Foresthouses.</span></a></p>
+
+<p class = "smaller">
+Enterprising tourists wishing to explore the great forests and to scale
+the mountains should endeavour to procure letters of introduction from
+the chief forestal authorities at Ajaccio, Corté, Bastia or Calvi to the
+occupants of the Maisons Forestières in the forests to be visited.
+Although the gardes forestières are generally hospitable, they are
+afraid to follow their inclination without orders from their superiors.
+For each day in these houses 7&nbsp;to 8 frs. should be given.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<!--png 062-->
+<h4 class = "chapter"><a name = "index" id = "index">INDEX.</a></h4>
+
+<p class = "mynote">
+Index links lead directly to the named entry, not to the top of the
+page.</p>
+
+<table class = "index" summary = "index">
+
+<tr>
+<td width = "50%">
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Agriculture</span>
+<a href = "#agriculture">41</a></p>
+
+<p>Aïtone forest <a href = "#aitone18">18</a>, <a href =
+"#aitone23">23</a></p>
+
+<p><b>Ajaccio</b> <a href = "#ajaccio">3</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Bankers
+<a href = "#ajaccio_bankers">3</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Cab tariff
+<a href = "#ajaccio_cabs">3</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Cathedral
+<a href = "#ajaccio_cathedral">5</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Climate
+<a href = "#ajaccio_climate">6</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Curiosities
+<a href = "#ajaccio_curio">6</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Drives
+<a href = "#ajaccio_drives">3</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Episcopal chapel
+<a href = "#ajaccio_episcopal">3</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Excursions
+<a href = "#ajaccio_excursions">5</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Fountains
+<a href = "#ajaccio_fountains">6</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Hotels
+<a href = "#ajaccio_hotels">3</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Library
+<a href = "#ajaccio_library">5</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Memorial chapel
+<a href = "#ajaccio_memorial">5</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Mission
+<a href = "#ajaccio_mission">3</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Napoleon
+<a href = "#ajaccio_napoleon">4</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Picture gallery
+<a href = "#ajaccio_picture">5</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Pozzo di Borgo
+<a href = "#ajaccio_pozzo">4</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+St. Pancras
+<a href = "#ajaccio_pancras">6</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Sepulchral chapels
+<a href = "#ajaccio_sepul">6</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Steamers
+<a href = "#ajaccio_steamers">2</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">
+Water-carriers
+<a href = "#ajaccio_water">6</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Ajaccio to Bastia
+<a href = "#ajaccio_to_bastia">7</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Corté
+<a href = "#ajaccio_to_bastia"><ins class = "correction"
+title = "page reference (7) missing">&nbsp; &nbsp;</ins></a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Sartène
+<a href = "#ajaccio_to_sartene">23</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Vico and Evisa
+<a href = "#ajaccio_to_evisa">22</a></p>
+<p>Albertacce
+<a href = "#albertacce">19</a></p>
+<p>Albuccia point
+<a href = "#albuccia">28</a></p>
+<p>Aleria
+<a href = "#aleria">32</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Corté
+<a href = "#aleria_to_corte">33</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Puzzichello
+<a href = "#aleria_to_puzzichello">33</a></p>
+<p>Alesani <a href = "#alesani">33</a>,
+<a href = "#alesani35">35</a></p>
+<p>Algajola
+<a href = "#algajola">15</a></p>
+<p>Amphibole
+<a href = "#amphibole">27</a></p>
+<p>Apa
+<a href = "#apa">24</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Zicavo
+<a href = "#apa">24</a></p>
+<p>Appietto
+<a href = "#appietto">22</a></p>
+<p>Arcarotta col <a href = "#col_arcarotta33">33</a>,
+<a href = "#col_arcarotta35">35</a></p>
+<p>Asco <a href = "#asco19">19</a>,
+<a href = "#asco20">20</a></p>
+<p>Aullene
+<a href = "#aullene">27</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Balagna valley</span>
+<a href = "#balagna">20</a></p>
+
+<p>Balogna
+<a href = "#balogna">23</a></p>
+<p>Baracci baths
+<a href = "#baracci">26</a></p>
+<p>Barcaggio
+<a href = "#barcaggio">14</a></p>
+<p>Bastelica
+<a href = "#bastelica">24</a></p>
+<p>Bastia
+<a href = "#bastia">10</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Calvi
+<a href = "#bastia_to_calvi">14</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Cap Corse
+<a href = "#bastia_to_rogliano">11</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; rail to Aleria
+<a href = "#bastia_to_aleria">34</a></p>
+<p>Baths of Baracci
+<a href = "#baracci">26</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; of Caldaniccia
+<a href = "#caldaniccia">6</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; of Guagno
+<a href = "#guagno">23</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; of Guitera
+<a href = "#guitera">25</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; of Orezza
+<a href = "#orezza">34</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; of Pietrapola <a href =
+"#pietrapola28">28</a>,
+<a href = "#pietrapola32">32</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; of Puzzichello
+<a href = "#puzzichello">33</a></p>
+<p>Bavella col <a href = "#col_bavella26">26</a>,
+<a href = "#col_bavella31">31</a>,
+<a href = "#col_bavella36">36</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Belgodere
+<a href = "#belgodere">21</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Olmi-Capella
+<a href = "#belgodere_to_olmi">21</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Tartagine forest
+<a href = "#belgodere_to_tartagine">21</a></p>
+<p>Bettianella lake
+<a href = "#bettianella">9</a></p>
+<p>Bevinco
+<a href = "#bevinco">10</a></p>
+<p>Bianca bocca
+<a href = "#biancabocca">22</a></p>
+<p>Bicchisano
+<a href = "#bicchisano">26</a></p>
+<p>Biguglia lake
+<a href = "#biguglia">10</a></p>
+<p>Bocca Melza
+<a href = "#boccamelza">16</a></p>
+<p>Bocognano
+<a href = "#bocognano">7</a></p>
+<p><b>Bonifacio</b>
+<a href = "#bonifacio">30</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">Caves
+<a href = "#bonifacio_caves">31</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">Charles V.
+<a href = "#bonifacio_charles">30</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">Napoleon
+<a href = "#bonifacio_napoleon">30</a></p>
+<p>Bonifacio to Bastia
+<a href = "#bonifacio_to_bastia">31</a></p>
+<p>Borgo
+<a href = "#borgo">10</a></p>
+<p>Botticella
+<a href = "#botticella">14</a></p>
+<p>Brando cave <a href = "#brando10">10</a>,
+<a href = "#brando12">12</a></p>
+<p>Brustico
+<a href = "#brustico">35</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Calacuccia</span>
+<a href = "#calacuccia">19</a></p>
+<p>Calasima
+<a href = "#calasima">19</a></p>
+<p>Calcatoggio
+<a href = "#calcatoggio">17</a></p>
+<p>Caldanella
+<a href = "#caldanella">17</a></p>
+<p>Caldaniccia
+<a href = "#caldaniccia">6</a></p>
+<p>Calenzana
+<a href = "#calenzana22">22</a></p>
+<p>Calenzana <a class = "tag" href = "#noteA" name = "tagA" id =
+"tagA">A*</a>
+<a href = "#calenzana15">15</a></p>
+<p>Calvi
+<a href = "#calvi">15</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Ajaccio
+<a href = "#calvi_to_ajaccio">16</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Bastia
+<a href = "#calvi_to_bastia">20</a></p>
+<p>Campo
+<a href = "#campo">25</a></p>
+<p>Cap Corse
+<a href = "#corse">11</a></p>
+<p>Capella mount
+<a href = "#mt_capella">27</a></p>
+<p>Capronale col
+<a href = "#col_capronale">16</a></p>
+<p>Cargese
+<a href = "#cargese">17</a></p>
+<p>Cargiaca
+<a href = "#cargiaca">27</a></p>
+<p>Carrosaccia
+<a href = "#carrosaccia">6</a></p>
+<p>Casabianca
+<a href = "#casabianca">34</a></p>
+<p>Casabianda
+<a href = "#casabianda">32</a></p>
+<p>Casamaccioli
+<a href = "#casamaccioli">19</a></p>
+<p>Casamozza
+<a href = "#casamozza">34</a></p>
+<p>Cassalabriva
+<a href = "#cassalabriva">26</a></p>
+<p>Castagneto <a href = "#alesani">33</a>,
+<a href = "#alesani35">35</a></p>
+<p>Castagniccia
+<a href = "#castagniccia">35</a></p>
+<p>Castellaccio col
+<a href = "#col_castellaccio">16</a></p>
+<p>Castello punta
+<a href = "#castello">24</a></p>
+<p>Castiglione
+<a href = "#castiglione">20</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Cauro
+<a href = "#cauro">23</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Bastelica
+<a href = "#cauro_to_bastelica">24</a></p>
+<p>Celaccia col
+<a href = "#col_celaccia">26</a></p>
+<p>Cervione <a href = "#cervione33">33</a>,
+<a href = "#cervione">35</a></p>
+<p>Character
+<a href = "#corsica_character">40</a></p>
+<p>Chestnut trees<a href = "#chestnut1"> 1</a>, <a href =
+"#chestnut41">41</a></p>
+<p>Chidazzo
+<a href = "#chidazzo">18</a></p>
+<p>Cineraggia mount
+<a href = "#mt_cineraggia">21</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">bocca
+<a href = "#bocca_cineraggia">22</a></p>
+<p>Cinto mount <a href = "#mt_cinto1">1</a>,
+<a href = "#mt_cinto19">19</a>,
+<a href = "#mt_cinto20">20</a></p>
+<p>Climate
+<a href = "#climate">2</a></p>
+<p>Coast lakes <a href = "#coastlakes10">10</a>,
+<a href = "#coastlakes31">31</a>,
+<a href = "#lake_diana">32</a></p>
+<p>Corona mount <a href = "#mt_corona19">19</a>,
+<a href = "#mt_corona21">21</a></p>
+<p>Corsican arms
+<a href = "#corsica_arms">38</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; character
+<a href = "#corsica_character">40</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; dimensions
+<a href = "#corsica_dimensions">1</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; patroness
+<a href = "#corsica_patroness">38</a></p>
+<!--png 063-->
+<p><ins class = "correction" title = "name of village">Corscia</ins>
+<a href = "#corscia">19</a></p>
+<p>Corté
+<a href = "#corte">8</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Aleria
+<a href = "#corte">8</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Mt. Rotondo
+<a href = "#corte_to_mt_rotondo">8</a></p>
+<p>Coscione mount
+<a href = "#mt_coscione">25</a></p>
+<p>Cotone <a href = "#cotone33">33</a>,
+<a href = "#cotone35">35</a></p>
+<p>Cozzano
+<a href = "#cozzano">27</a></p>
+<p>Cristinacce
+<a href = "#cristinacce">17</a></p>
+<p>Cuculla mount
+<a href = "#mt_cuculla">18</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Dente Capo</span>
+<a href = "#dentecapo">21</a></p>
+<p>Diana lake
+<a href = "#lake_diana">32</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Dominicacci
+<a href = "#dominicacci">24</a></p>
+<p>Don Giovanni mount
+<a href = "#mt_dongiovanni">27</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Else valley</span>
+<a href = "#else">24</a></p>
+<p>Erbajo col <a href = "#col_erbajo8">8</a>,
+<a href = "#col_erbajo16">16</a></p>
+<p>Erbalunga
+<a href = "#erbalunga">12</a></p>
+<p>Ersa
+<a href = "#ersa">14</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Escutcheon
+<a href = "#corsica_arms">38</a></p>
+<p>Evergreen oaks
+<a href = "#evergreen">41</a></p>
+<p>Evisa <a href = "#evisa18">18</a>,
+<a href = "#evisa23">23</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Albertacce
+<a href = "#evisa_to_albertacce">18</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Felce</span>
+<a href = "#felce">35</a></p>
+<p>Feliceto <a href = "#feliceto21">21</a>,
+<a href = "#feliceto22">22</a></p>
+<p>Fium Orbo source
+<a href = "#fium_orbo">28</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Folelli
+<a href = "#folelli">33</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Piedicroce
+<a href = "#folelli">33</a></p>
+<p>Francardo bridge <a href = "#francardo9">9</a>,
+<a href = "#francardo20">20</a></p>
+<p>Frasseto <a href = "#frasseto24">24</a>,
+<a href = "#frasseto25">25</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Galeria</span>
+<a href = "#galeria">16</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to forests of Filosorma
+<a href = "#galeria_to_filosorma">16</a></p>
+<p>Ghisonaccia
+<a href = "#ghisonaccia">32</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Ghisoni <a href =
+"#ghisoni_to_ghisonaccia">29</a></p>
+<p>Ghisoni
+<a href = "#ghisoni">29</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Ghisonaccia <a href =
+"#ghisoni_to_ghisonaccia">29</a></p>
+<p>Giraglia island
+<a href = "#giraglia">14</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Golo source
+<a href = "#golo_source">19</a></p>
+<p>Gozzi mount
+<a href = "#mt_gozzi">22</a></p>
+<p>Granace<a class = "tag" href = "#noteB" name = "tagBi" id =
+"tagBi">B*</a> col
+<a href = "#col_granace">25</a></p>
+<p>Grosso mount
+<a href = "#mt_grosso">21</a></p>
+<p>Guagno baths
+<a href = "#guagno">23</a></p>
+<p>Guitera baths
+<a href = "#guitera">25</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">History</span>
+<a href = "#history">37</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Houses of shelter
+<a href = "#maison">41</a>.<br>
+See also under “<a href = "#index_maison">Maison</a>.�</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Ile Rousse</span>
+<a href = "#ilerousse">15</a></p>
+<p>Incudine mount
+<a href = "#mt_incudine">25</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Inzecca
+<a href = "#inzecca">29</a></p>
+<p><ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘Isolaccia’">Isolaccio</ins>
+<a href = "#isolaccio">28</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan = "2">
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Kyrie Eleison</span>
+<a href = "#albuccia">28</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Lacciola col</span>
+<a href = "#col_lacciola">17</a></p>
+<p>La Piana
+<a href = "#lapiana">17</a></p>
+<p>Larone col <a href = "#col_larone26">26</a>,
+<a href = "#col_larone36">36</a></p>
+<p>Lavatoggio
+<a href = "#lavatoggio">21</a></p>
+<p>Leone coronato
+<a href = "#leone">30</a></p>
+<p><ins class = "correction"
+title = "text has ‘Levie 37, 32’ only">Levie</ins>
+<a href = "#levie26">26</a>,
+<a href = "#levie32">32</a>,
+<a href = "#levie">37</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Lonca valley
+<a href = "#lonca">16</a></p>
+<p>Lozzi
+<a href = "#lozzi">19</a></p>
+<p>Lugo
+<a href = "#lugo">8</a></p>
+<p>Lugo di Nazza
+<a href = "#lugodinazza">32</a></p>
+<p>Lumio
+<a href = "#lumio">15</a></p>
+<p>Luri
+<a href = "#luri">12</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Macinaggio</span>
+<a href = "#macinaggio13">13</a>,
+<a href = "#macinaggio39">39</a></p>
+<p>Maddalena isle
+<a href = "#maddalena">25</a></p>
+<p><a name = "index_maison" id = "index_maison">Maison Aïtone</a>
+<a href = "#maison_aitone">18</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Alza
+<a href = "#maison_alza">36</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Arghiavara
+<a href = "#maison_arghiavara">36</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Ballatojo
+<a href = "#maison_ballatojo">36</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Bavella
+<a href = "#maison_bavella">36</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Canareccia
+<a href = "#maison_canareccia">28</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Castellaccio
+<a href = "#maison_castellaccio">18</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Castelluccio
+<a href = "#maison_castelluccio">36</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Ghiraldino
+<a href = "#maison_ghiraldino">28</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Marmano
+<a href = "#maison_marmano">28</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Ometa
+<a href = "#maison_ometa">16</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Popaja
+<a href = "#maison_popaja">19</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Rocchio-Pinzuto
+<a href = "#maison_rocchiopinzuto">36</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Maison S. Antoine
+<a href = "#maison_st_antoine">28</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Sciattarina
+<a href = "#maison_sciattarina">18</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Scrivano
+<a href = "#maison_scrivano">28</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Tagnone
+<a href = "#maison_tagnone">18</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; Zipitoli
+<a href = "#maison_zipitoli">24</a></p>
+<p>Manganella col
+<a href = "#col_manganella">9</a></p>
+<p>Mariana
+<a href = "#mariana">34</a></p>
+<p>Marmano forest
+<a href = "#marmano_forest">28</a></p>
+<p>Menta col
+<a href = "#col_menta">24</a></p>
+<p>Moltifao
+<a href = "#moltifao">20</a></p>
+<p>Moor’s head
+<a href = "#moors_head">38</a></p>
+<p>Morosaglia
+<a href = "#morosaglia">35</a></p>
+<p>Morsaglia
+<a href = "#morsaglia">14</a></p>
+<p>Mouflon
+<a href = "#mouflon">2</a></p>
+<p>Muchieto <a href = "#muchieto33">33</a>,
+<a href = "#muchieto35">35</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Napoleon</span> <a href =
+"#ajaccio_napoleon">4</a>,
+<a href = "#napoleon26">26</a>,
+<a href = "#bonifacio_napoleon">30</a></p>
+<p>Nelson
+<a href = "#nelson">26</a></p>
+<p>Nino lake
+<a href = "#nino">19</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Niolo
+<a href = "#niolo">19</a></p>
+<p>Nonza <a href = "#nonza">12</a>,
+<a href = "#nonza14">14</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Olivese</span>
+<a href = "#olivese">27</a></p>
+<p>Olive trees
+<a href = "#olive">20</a></p>
+<p>Olmeto
+<a href = "#olmeto">26</a></p>
+<p>Olmi-Capella
+<a href = "#olmi">21</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Ometa ilex forest
+<a href = "#ometa">16</a></p>
+<p>Oninanda col
+<a href = "#col_oninanda">20</a></p>
+<p>Orezza spa
+<a href = "#orezza">34</a></p>
+<p>Oro mount
+<a href = "#mt_oro">1</a></p>
+<p>Ortale <a href = "#ortale33">33</a>,
+<a href = "#ortale35">35</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Padro Mount</span>
+<a href = "#mt_padro1">1</a>, <a href = "#mt_padro21">21</a></p>
+<p>Padulella
+<a href = "#padulella">33</a></p>
+<p>Pagliorba mount
+<a href = "#mt_pagliorba">1</a></p>
+<p>Palasca
+<a href = "#palasca">22</a></p>
+<p>Palneca
+<a href = "#palneca">28</a></p>
+<p>Pancheraccia
+<a href = "#pancheraccia">33</a></p>
+<p>Paoli
+<a href = "#paoli">39</a></p>
+<p>Patron Saint
+<a href = "#corsica_patroness">38</a></p>
+<p>Pecorile
+<a href = "#pecorile">14</a></p>
+<p>Perticato forest
+<a href = "#perticato">16</a></p>
+<p>Pertusato mount
+<a href = "#mt_pertusato">31</a></p>
+<p>Petrella col
+<a href = "#col_petrella">19</a></p>
+<p>Piano
+<a href = "#piano">34</a></p>
+<p>Piedicroce <a href = "#piedicroce34">34</a>,
+<a href = "#piedicroce9">9</a>,
+<a href = "#piedicroce">35</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Prunete
+<a href = "#piedicroce_to_prunete">35</a></p>
+<p>Pietrapola baths <a href = "#pietrapola28">28</a>,
+<a href = "#pietrapola32">32</a></p>
+<p>Pines
+<a href = "#pines">7</a></p>
+<p>Pino <a href = "#pino12">12</a>,
+<a href = "#pino14">14</a></p>
+<p>Pinus Laricio
+<a href = "#pinuslaricio">7</a></p>
+<p>Pinus Pinaster
+<a href = "#pinuspinaster">7</a></p>
+<p>Poggio di Nazza
+<a href = "#poggiodinazza">32</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Pont Diable
+<a href = "#diable">20</a></p>
+<p>Pont du Golo
+<a href = "#golo">34</a></p>
+<p>Ponte alla Leccia <a href = "#leccia9">9</a>,
+<a href = "#leccia22">22</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Calvi
+<a href = "#leccia_to_calvi">20</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Piedicroce
+<a href = "#leccia_to_piedicroce">34</a></p>
+<p>Ponteniello forest
+<a href = "#ponteniello">24</a></p>
+<p>Ponte Novo<a class = "tag" href = "#noteC" name = "tagC" id =
+"tagC">C*</a> <a href = "#pontenovo">9</a>,
+<a href = "#pontenovo22">22</a>,
+<a href = "#pontenovo39"><span class = "sans">39</span></a></p>
+<p>Popolasca
+<a href = "#popolasca">20</a></p>
+<p>Porri
+<a href = "#porri">34</a></p>
+<p>Porta
+<a href = "#porta">34</a></p>
+<p>Porto
+<a href = "#porto">16</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Evisa
+<a href = "#porto_to_evisa">18</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Ponte Francardo
+<a href = "#porto_to_francardo">18</a></p>
+<p>Portopollo
+<a href = "#portopollo">32</a></p>
+<p>Porto-Vecchio
+<a href = "#portovecchio">31</a></p>
+<p>Prato col
+<a href = "#col_prato">35</a></p>
+<p>Propriano
+<a href = "#propriano">26</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Solenzara <a href =
+"#propriano_to_solenzara">26</a></p>
+<p>Prunelli source
+<a href = "#prunelli">28</a></p>
+<p>Prunete <a href = "#prunete">33</a>,
+<a href = "#prunete35">35</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Alesani
+<a href = "#prunete">33</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan = "2">
+<p><ins class = "correction" title = "error for ‘Quercus ilex’"><span
+class = "smallcaps">Quercus Ilex</span></ins>
+<a href = "#quercus">41</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<!--png 064-->
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Rapara Col</span>
+<a href = "#col_rapara">28</a></p>
+<p>Renoso mount <a href = "#mt_renoso7">7</a>,
+<a href = "#mt_renoso24">24</a></p>
+<p>Retto mount
+<a href = "#mt_retto">19</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Rogliano
+<a href = "#rogliano">13</a></p>
+<p>Rotondo mount <a href = "#mt_rotondo1">1</a>,
+<a href = "#mt_rotondo8">8</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Sagona</span> <a href = "#sagona">17</a>,
+<a href = "#sagona23">23</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Aitone forest
+<a href = "#sagona_to_aitone">17</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Vico
+<a href = "#sagona23">23</a></p>
+<p>St. Antoine col
+<a href = "#col_st_antoine">23</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Bernardino col
+<a href = "#col_st_bernardino">14</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Colombano col
+<a href = "#col_st_colombano">22</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Devota
+<a href = "#st_devota">38</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Florent
+<a href = "#st_florent">14</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Georges col
+<a href = "#col_st_georges">24</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Gavino di Carbini
+<a href = "#st_gavino">37</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Lucia di Tallano
+<a href = "#st_lucia26">26</a>,
+<a href = "#st_lucia27">27</a>,
+<a href = "#st_lucia32">32</a>,
+<a href = "#st_lucia37">37</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Lucie col
+<a href = "#col_st_lucie">12</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Maria Siché
+<a href = "#st_maria">24</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Nicolao
+<a href = "#st_nicolao">33</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Pietro mount
+<a href = "#mt_st_pietro">35</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Sebastien col<a class = "tag" href = "#noteD"
+name = "tagD" id = "tagD">D*</a>
+<a href = "#col_st_sebastien22">22</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash; Severa
+<a href = "#st_severa">12</a></p>
+<p>Salario fountain
+<a href = "#salario">6</a></p>
+<p>Sampiero <a href = "#sampiero24">24</a>,
+<a href = "#sampiero38">38</a></p>
+<p>Sartène
+<a href = "#sartene">27</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Bonifacio
+<a href = "#sartene_to_bonifacio">30</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Vivario
+<a href = "#sartene_to_corte">27</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Scala di Santa Regina
+<a href = "#santaregina">10</a></p>
+<p>Scozzolatojo col
+<a href = "#col_scozzolatojo">29</a></p>
+<p>Scrivano col
+<a href = "#col_scrivano">28</a></p>
+<p>Sea-urchins
+<a href = "#seaurchins">22</a></p>
+<p>Sebastien col<a class = "tag" href = "#noteD">D*</a>
+<a href = "#col_st_sebastien17">17</a></p>
+<p>Seneca’s tower
+<a href = "#senecastower">12</a></p>
+<p>Serra col
+<a href = "#col_serra">14</a></p>
+<p>Serraggio <a href = "#serraggio8">8</a>,
+<a href = "#serraggio33">33</a></p>
+<p>Sevi col
+<a href = "#col_sevi">17</a></p>
+<p>Silvareccio
+<a href = "#silvareccio">34</a></p>
+<p>Solenzara
+<a href = "#solenzara">31</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Sartène
+<a href = "#solenzara_to_sartene">36</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Zonza
+<a href = "#solenzara">31</a></p>
+<p>Sollacaro
+<a href = "#sollacaro">26</a></p>
+<p>Sorba col
+<a href = "#col_sorba">29</a></p>
+<p>Speloncato
+<a href = "#speloncato">21</a></p>
+<p>Spelunca
+<a href = "#spelunca">18</a></p>
+<p>Sposata
+<a href = "#sposata">25</a></p>
+<p>Stazzona
+<a href = "#stazzona">34</a></p>
+<p>Steamers <a href = "#ajaccio_steamers">2</a>,
+<a href = "#bastia_steamers10">10</a>,
+<a href = "#bastia_steamers11">11</a></p>
+<p>Stretta
+<a href = "#stretta">35</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Taca Forest</span>
+<a href = "#taca">27</a></p>
+<p>Tafonato mount <a href = "#mt_tafonato16">16</a>,
+<a href = "#mt_tafonato18">18</a></p>
+<p>Taravo source
+<a href = "#taravo">28</a></p>
+<p>Tartagine forest
+<a href = "#tartagine">21</a></p>
+<p>Teghime col
+<a href = "#col_teghime">14</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Theodore Neuhoff
+<a href = "#theodore">32</a></p>
+<p>Torre all’Osse
+<a href = "#torreallosse">12</a></p>
+<p>Traunato mount
+<a href = "#mt_traunato">20</a></p>
+<p>Treccio ilex forest
+<a href = "#treccio">16</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Ucciani Bridge</span>
+<a href = "#ucciani">7</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Uomo di Cagna
+<a href = "#uomodicagna">30</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Vadina</span>
+<a href = "#vadina">8</a></p>
+<p>Valdoniello forest <a href = "#valdoniello18">18</a>,
+<a href = "#valdoniello23">23</a></p>
+<p>Vanina <a href = "#vanina25">25</a>,
+<a href = "#vanina38">38</a></p>
+<p>Vecchio source
+<a href = "#vecchio">28</a></p>
+<p>Vendetta
+<a href = "#vendetta">40</a></p>
+<p>Venzolasca
+<a href = "#venzolasca">34</a></p>
+<p>Verde col
+<a href = "#col_verde">28</a></p>
+<p>Verde forest
+<a href = "#verde_forest">28</a></p>
+<p>Vergio col
+<a href = "#col_vergio">18</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Vescovato
+<a href = "#vescovato">34</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Porta
+<a href = "#vescovato_to_porta">34</a></p>
+<p>Vico
+<a href = "#vico">23</a></p>
+<p>Ville
+<a href = "#ville">21</a></p>
+<p>Vivario <a href = "#vivario">8</a>,
+<a href = "#vivario29">29</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Pietrapola
+<a href = "#vivario_to_pietrapola">8</a></p>
+<p class = "inset">&mdash;&mdash; to Sartène
+<a href = "#sartene_to_corte">27</a></p>
+<p>Vizzavona
+<a href = "#vizzavona">7</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Wines</span> <a href = "#wines2">2</a>,
+<a href = "#wines11">11</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Wyse, W.,
+<a href = "#wyse">24</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<p><span class = "smallcaps">Zecavo</span>
+<a href = "#zecavo">25</a></p>
+<p>Zicavo <a href = "#zicavo">25</a>,
+<a href = "#zicavo27">27</a>,
+<a href = "#zicavo28">28</a></p>
+</td>
+<td>
+<p>Zonza <a href = "#zonza26">26</a>,
+<a href = "#zonza31">31</a>,
+<a href = "#zonza36">36</a></p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+</table>
+
+<h5 class = "section">THE END.</h5>
+
+<h6><i>Printed by <span class = "smallcaps">R. &amp; R. Clark</span>,
+Edinburgh</i></h6>
+
+<hr>
+
+<div class = "mynote smaller">
+<h4 class = "boldf">
+Transcriber’s Notes</h4>
+
+<p>When the Index and body text disagreed on spelling, the form shown in
+the <a href = "#map2">General Map</a> was used. The abbreviation “ft�
+was regularized to “ft.� where the full stop was missing or
+invisible.</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href = "#tagA" name = "noteA" id = "noteA">A*.</a>
+Index entry reads “Calenzani�, but body text has “Calenzana�; it appears
+to refer to the same place as the earlier Index entry for “Calenzana�.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href = "#tagBi" name = "noteB" id = "noteB">B*</a> (Index), <a href =
+"#tagBt">B*</a> (text).
+Body text has “Garanace� and Index has “Garance�. The Map’s spelling
+“Granace� was used because it can be found in modern sources; the Index
+entry was alphabetized accordingly.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href = "#tagC" name = "noteC" id = "noteC">C*</a>.
+The General Map and the town description (<a href =
+"#pontenovo">p.&nbsp;9</a>) use the “Novo� spelling; references on <a
+href = "#pontenovo22">p.&nbsp;22</a> and <a href =
+"#pontenovo39">p.&nbsp;39</a> use “Nuovo�. The Index as printed had
+parallel entries: “Ponte Novo 9, 22� and “Ponte Nuovo 9, 22�. The
+p.&nbsp;39 link was added by the transcriber.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href = "#tagD" name = "noteD" id = "noteD">D*</a>.
+The names “Col St. Sebastien� and “Col Sebastien� are each used once in
+the text. They are the same place, called “St. Sebastien� on the Map.
+</p>
+
+<h5 class = "boldf"><a name = "duplicate" id = "duplicate">About the
+Guidebook</a></h5>
+
+<p>The <i>Itinerary through Corsica</i> originally appeared as one
+section of Black’s guide to the Riviera. In later editions it became a
+separate volume. In the text as scanned, the Table of Contents and List
+of Maps appear twice: first as pages v-vii (with Maps on unpaginated
+viii) headed “Contents�, then as pages xv-xvii (Maps on xviii) headed
+“Corsica�. Pages ix-xiv are absent. The simplest explanation is that the
+introductory pages from two different versions of the book found their
+way into the same archive.</p>
+
+<p>Black’s <i>Guide to South France, East Half</i> says: “The asterisk
+signifies that they [hotels or inns] are especially good of their
+class.� As this explanation comes more than 200 pages into the book, it
+can be assumed that the usage was already familiar to the reader.</p>
+
+</div>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Itinerary through Corsica, by Charles Bertram
+Black
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+
+
+
+Title: Itinerary through Corsica
+       by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads
+
+
+Author: Charles Bertram Black
+
+
+
+Release Date: November 20, 2006  [eBook #19882]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ITINERARY THROUGH CORSICA***
+
+
+E-text prepared by Louise Hope, Carlo Traverso, and the Project Gutenberg
+Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) from page
+images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France
+(BnF/Gallica) (http://gallica.bnf.fr/)
+
+
+
+Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
+      file which includes the original illustrations and maps.
+      See 19882-h.htm or 19882-h.zip:
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+      or
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+
+
+      Images of the original pages are available through
+      La Bibliotheque nationale de France. See
+      http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1034792
+
+
+Transcriber's note:
+
+      The printed book carried two kinds of headnote: keyword and
+      mileage.
+
+      "Keyword" headers, noting the places and subjects mentioned
+      on the page, have been placed before the most appropriate
+      paragraph.
+
+      Each itinerary gives the "miles from" {starting point} and
+      "miles to" {ending point}, with the numbers themselves printed
+      in the left and right corners of each paragraph. For this
+      e-text the numbers are shown in braces before the beginning
+      of each paragraph; the place names are given at the beginning
+      of the itinerary, and repeated as needed. Paragraphs
+      describing side exursions do not have mileage information.
+
+      Additional transcriber's notes are at the end of the book.
+
+
+
+
+
+CORSICA.
+
+[Map:
+Sketch Map of the Riviera and Corsica]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+New Editions of Guide-Books for
+France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal
+and the Channel Islands.
+
+Copiously Illustrated with Maps and Plans.
+
+
+NORTH-FRANCE--From the North Sea to the Loire, exclusive of Paris, and
+  from the Bay of Biscay to the Rhine. 19 Maps and 21 Plans          7/6
+
+SOUTH-FRANCE--From the Loire to the Mediterranean, and from the Bay of
+  Biscay to the rivers Arno and Po. The island of Corsica. 40 Maps and
+  27 Plans                                                           7/6
+
+_Published also in separate Parts._
+
+North-France, WEST-HALF, or NORMANDY, BRITTANY and TOURAINE. 14 Maps
+  and 16 Plans. Eighth Edition                                       5/
+
+NORMANDY: Its CASTLES and CHURCHES. Second Edition. 5 Maps and 9 Plans
+                                                                     2/6
+
+North-France, EAST-HALF, or PICARDY, CHAMPAGNE, LORRAINE, ALSACE and
+  part of BURGUNDY. 5 Plans and 5 Maps. Third Edition                2/6
+
+South-France, WEST-HALF. The SUMMER RESORTS in the PYRENEES; LUCHON,
+  BIGORRE, BAREGES, etc.; the WINTER RESORTS of PAU, ARCACHON, BIARRITZ,
+  ST. JEAN-DE-LUZ, VERNET, AMELIE-LES-BAINS and MALAGA, and the
+  CLARET-WINE VINEYARDS in MEDOC. 17 Maps and 4 Plans. Fourth Edition
+                                                                     2/6
+
+South-France, EAST-HALF, or the VALLEYS of the WALDENSES, of the
+  RHONE, the DURANCE and the UPPER LOIRE; the Baths of VICHY,
+  AIX-LES-BAINS, ROYAT, VALS, MONT-DORE, BOURBOULE, BOURBON-LANCY,
+  ACQUI, LUCCA, VALDIERI, etc.; the VOLCANIC REGION OF ARDECHE; the
+  MOUNTAIN-PASSES between FRANCE and ITALY; and the RIVIERA of the
+  MEDITERRANEAN from MARSEILLES to LEGHORN. 20 Plans and 21 Maps.
+  Fourth Edition                                                     5/
+
+THE RIVIERA, or the MEDITERRANEAN from MARSEILLES to LEGHORN,
+  including the inland towns of PISA, LUCCA, CARRARA and FLORENCE,
+  and Excursions into the MARITIME ALPS. Fourth Edition. 10 Plans and
+  13 Maps                                                            2/6
+
+CORSICA, its Rail, Carriage and Forest Roads, with 6 Maps from the
+  latest authorities. Second Edition                                 1/
+
+BELGIUM, its CHURCHES, CHIMES and BATTLEFIELDS. 9 Plans and 4 Maps
+                                                                     2/6
+
+NORTH-FRANCE (East-Half) and BELGIUM in One Volume, including a
+  part of HOLLAND. Convenient for those going to Aix-la-Chapelle, Spa,
+  Vittel, Contrexeville, or any of the Bathing Stations on the North Sea
+                                                                     5/
+
+HANDBOOK for the CAR-TOURIST in the pleasant Islands of JERSEY,
+  GUERNSEY and ALDERNEY. Maps and Plans. Second Edition              1/
+
+SPAIN and PORTUGAL. (O'SHEA.) Seventh Edition. Edited by JOHN LOMAS.
+  Crown 8vo. Maps and Plans                                         15/
+
+
+From "Scotsman," June 2, 1884.
+
+_"C. B. Black's Guide-books have a character of their own; and that
+character is a good one. Their author has made himself personally
+acquainted with the localities with which he deals in a manner in which
+only a man of leisure, a lover of travel, and an intelligent observer of
+Continental life could afford to do. He does not 'get up' the places as
+a mere hack guide-book writer is often, by the necessity of the case,
+compelled to do. Hence he is able to correct common mistakes, and to
+supply information on minute points of much interest apt to be
+overlooked by the hurried observer."_
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+ITINERARY THROUGH CORSICA
+
+by Its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads
+
+by
+
+C. B. BLACK
+
+Illustrated by Five Maps and One Plan
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Moor's Head]
+
+
+
+Edinburgh
+Adam and Charles Black
+1888
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS: CORSICA.
+
+  [Transcriber's Note:
+  The four pages consisting of the Contents and List of Illustrations
+  appeared twice in the original text, first as pgs. v-viii, then as
+  pgs. xv-xviii. (The intervening pages are absent.) The text and layout
+  are identical except that the first group is headed "Contents", the
+  second "Corsica." The repeated text has been omitted here.]
+
+                                                                    Page
+
+Corsica. --Position --Extent --Population --Highest Mountains
+  --Forests --Vegetation --Aspect --Climate --Steamboats               1
+
+Ajaccio. --Hotels --Cabs --Napoleon's Birthplace --Memorial
+  Chapel --Chapel of San Antonio --Chapelle Greco --Fontaine du
+  Salario --Family Sepulchral Chapels --Climate --Fair of
+  St. Pancras --Water Carriers --Curiosities                           3
+
+Ajaccio to Bastia by Corte. --This road traverses the centre
+  of the island diagonally, exhibits every characteristic of
+  Corsica, crosses the longest rivers, passes through one of the
+  greatest forests and by some of the highest mountains, and
+  connects the three principal towns. Rail between Corte and
+  Bastia                                                               7
+
+  From Vivario, p. 8, a road leads to the mineral water
+  establishment of Pietrapola. From Corte, p. 8, the ascent is
+  made of Mt. Rotondo. From the Ponte Francardo, p. 9, the most
+  important of the Forest roads extends S.W. to Porto by
+  Albertacce and Evisa. From Albertacce the ascent is made of
+  Mt. Cinto.
+
+  The great highway traversing the island from Prunete to Calvi
+  passes through Ponte alla Leccia, p. 9. From Bastia, p. 10,
+  are trains or diligences to every part of the east coast, and
+  steamers to Leghorn, Genoa, Nice and Marseilles.
+
+Bastia to Rogliano and Morsaglia, skirting the east coast of
+  the long peninsula called Cap Corse. This road follows more or
+  less the level of the sea till it reaches Macinaggio, whence
+  it ascends to Morsaglia. The highway on the western side of
+  Cap Corse is cut along the flanks of the mountains, generally
+  at a considerable height above the sea                              11
+
+Bastia to Calvi by St. Florent and the Ile Rousse                   14
+
+Calvi to Ajaccio, by Galeria, Porto and Sagona. From Galeria
+  and Porto great Forest roads penetrate into the interior            16
+
+GALERIA to the FORESTS of FILOSORMA. --Tourists should not
+  explore any of the great Forest roads without being provided
+  with letters to the dwellers in the maisons forestieres and in
+  those of the Cantonniers; see p. 41 and map, p. 20                  16
+
+PORTO to the PONTE FRANCARDO. --The most important of all the
+  Forest roads. It passes through Evisa and by several good
+  "maisons forestieres." From the Col Vergio is seen Mt.
+  Tafanato, with its natural tunnel, and from Albertacce is
+  commenced the ascent of Mt. Cinto. Several mule-paths ramify
+  from this forest road, the most important being to Lake Nino
+  and Corte, and to Asco: whence Mt. Cinto is also ascended. The
+  most famous part of the road itself is the Scala di Santa
+  Regina                                                              18
+
+Calvi to Corte or to BASTIA by PONTE ALLA LECCIA. --This road
+  traverses a most picturesque country, and the region of the
+  finest olive trees in the island                                    20
+
+BELGODERE to the FOREST of TARTAGINE. --This forest contains few
+  old trees, and is not of easy access                                21
+
+Ajaccio to Evisa, VICO and the BATHS of GUAGNO                      22
+
+Ajaccio to Sartene, by CAURO, APA, OLMETO and PROPRIANO. See
+  S.W. end of general map                                             23
+
+CAURO to BASTELICA. --Bastelica is the common name of a group of
+  hamlets, in one of which Sampiero was born. From this the
+  ascent is made of Mt. Renoso                                        24
+
+AJACCIO and APA to ZICAVO and the BATHS of GUITERA, by
+  Santa-Maria-Siche, Frasseto and Zecavo. S. Maria-Siche is the
+  birthplace of the fair and gentle Vanina. From Zicavo the
+  ascent is made of Mt. Incudine; whence is beheld the finest
+  view in Corsica. See maps on fly-leaf and fronting p. 27            24
+
+PROPRIANO to SOLENZARA, from the S.W. to the S.E. of the island.
+  This Route Forestiere is better treated on p. 36, as Solenzara
+  to Sartene                                                          26
+
+Sartene to Corte by Vivario. --This is the great central
+  highway, of which the wildest and most difficult part is given
+  on map, p. 27. It leads to some fine forests, of which the
+  best is the Verde forest. At the most desolate portion are
+  tolerably comfortable maisons forestieres. Vehicles should be
+  hired either at Sartene or Vivario, 20 to 25 frs. per day           27
+
+GHISONI to GHISONACCIA, by the route forestiere, extending from
+  the central main road to the Ghisonaccia railway station on
+  the east coast. The most dangerous part of the road is the
+  "Passage" Inzecca. See map, p. 27                                   29
+
+SARTENE to BONIFACIO                                                  30
+
+Bonifacio to Bastia by the fertile plains and insalubrious
+  lakes of the east coast                                             31
+
+Aleria to Corte by a picturesque road following the course of
+  the Tavignano. Coach every other day                                33
+
+Prunete to Castagneto or ALESANI, by coach daily. Castagneto
+  is one of the villages in the Castagniccia or Chestnut
+  country. The road ascends all the way. It, as well as most
+  of the roads into the interior, should not be taken till the
+  chestnut trees are in leaf                                          33
+
+FOLELLI to STAZZONA by coach daily. Stazzona is the village
+  nearest to the Spa of Orezza. The road extends to Ponte alla
+  Leccia                                                              33
+
+VESCOVATO STATION to PORTA, by coach daily, passing Vescovato,
+  Venzolasca and Silvareccio. In summer the coach goes on to
+  Piedicroce                                                          34
+
+PONTE ALLA LECCIA to PIEDICROCE by "Courrier" daily                   34
+
+Piedicroce to Prunete-Railway Station, the finest part of the
+  road being between Piedicroce and Castagneto. Coach from
+  Castagneto to Prunete by Cervione. From Castagneto or Alesani
+  to Prunete see Prunete to Alesani, on p. 33                         35
+
+SOLENZARA, on the S.E. coast, to SARTENE, 46 m. S.W., by a
+  forest road with much fine scenery                                  36
+
+HISTORY, HABITS, AGRICULTURE and HOUSES OF REFUGE, called
+  "Maison" in the index                                               37
+
+
+LIST OF MAPS.
+
+                                                                    Page
+
+Sketch Map of the Riviera and Corsica, showing the relative
+  position of their principal towns; as also the ports connected
+  with each other by steamboat
+_Fly-leaf_
+
+General Map of Corsica                                               1
+
+Plan of Ajaccio. --The town is built on rising ground                3
+
+Environs of Ajaccio                                                  6
+
+The Western Central Region. --This is the least known and the
+  most difficult portion of the island to traverse. Yet easy and
+  picturesque short excursions may be made from Porto, Evisa and
+  Galeria, into the forests of evergreen oaks, etc                    20
+
+Central Corsica, or the most troublesome part of the grand
+  highway, which traverses Corsica from south to north, from
+  Sartene to Ponte alla Leccia, whence it ramifies eastward to
+  Bastia and westward to Calvi and Ile Rousse. It joins the
+  railway and the road between Ajaccio and Corte near Vivario         27
+
+
+
+
+CORSICA
+
+
+Is situated 54 miles W. from Leghorn, 98 m. S. from Genoa, and 106 m.
+S.E. from Nice. It is 116 m. long, 52 m. broad, and contains an area of
+3376 square miles; divided into 5 arrondissements, subdivided into 62
+cantons, and these again into 363 communes, with a population of
+275,000. The surface, of which little more than a tenth is under
+cultivation, is composed of lofty and rugged granite mountain chains,
+diverging in all directions from the culminating peaks of Mounts Cinto,
+8892 ft.; Rotondo, 8613 ft.; Pagliorba, 8278 ft.; Padro, 7846 ft.; and
+Oro, 8829 ft. On the western and southern sides of the island these
+ranges terminate abruptly on the shore, or run out into the sea; while,
+on the eastern side, a great undulating plain intervenes between their
+termination and the coast, in summer troubled with malaria, but in a
+less degree than formerly.
+
+Corsica is the central region of the great plant system of the
+Mediterranean. Among the many fine forests which cover the mountains,
+the most important are those of Valdoniello, Filosorma, Vizzavona Verde,
+Zonza, Bavella, Ometa and Calenzana. They contain noble specimens of
+pines, oaks, beech, chestnut, walnut and olive trees. The cork oak forms
+woods, chiefly in the south of the island. The chestnut trees are as
+large and fruitful as the best on the Apennines, and the nuts form the
+staple article of food for man and beast during the winter months.
+Indeed, these glorious chestnut and beech forests, when in full foliage,
+are the grand features of Corsican scenery, which therefore cannot be
+seen to advantage till towards the end of May, and if to this we add the
+splendid bloom of the oleanders, not till July. "I at any rate know of
+no such combination of sea and mountains, of the sylvan beauty of the
+north with the rich colours of the south; no region where within so
+small a space nature takes so many sublime and exquisite aspects as she
+does in Corsica. Palms, orange groves, olives, vines, maize and
+chestnuts; the most picturesque beech forests, the noblest pine woods in
+Europe; granite peaks, snows and frozen lakes--all these are brought
+into the compass of a day's journey. Everything is as novel to the
+Alpine climber as if, in place of being on a fragment of the Alps,
+severed only by 100 miles from their nearest snows, he was in a
+different continent."--D. W. Freshfield, Alpine Club.
+
+[Map: Corsica]
+
+[Headnote: VEGETATION.]
+
+The prickly pear, the American aloe, the castor-oil plant and the
+fig-tree, grow wild along the coast; while a little farther upwards, on
+the slopes and plateaus, the arbutus, cistus, oleander, myrtle and
+various kinds of heaths, form a dense coppice, called in the island
+maqui, supplying an excellent covert for various kinds of game and
+numerous blackbirds. When the arbutus and myrtle berries are ripe the
+blackbirds are eagerly hunted, as at that time they are plump and make
+very savoury and delicate eating.
+
+There are few cows on the island, the greater part of the milk supply
+being procured from goats. It is excellent, and has no rank flavour.
+
+The only remarkable creature is the mouflon, a species of sheep,
+resembling that almost extinct animal the bouquetin or ibex of the Alps.
+It inhabits the highest mountains, and though very wild is easily tamed.
+
+The best red wines are grown about Ajaccio, Tallano, Cervione and
+Sartene, and the best white wines in Sari and in the valleys of Cape
+Corso. They improve up to twenty years, and even up to fifty.
+
+The temperature of the climate of Corsica varies according to the
+elevation. Along the coast the sun is warm even in January. After
+January the temperature rises rapidly. The climate of the zone 2000 ft.
+above the sea is considerably colder and snow generally appears there in
+December. The olive ripens its fruit up to an elevation of 2000 ft. and
+the chestnut to 3000, where it gives place to oaks, box trees, junipers,
+firs and beeches. The greater part of the population inhabits the region
+of the chestnut trees, in villages scattered over the mountain slopes,
+valleys and tablelands.
+
+[Headnote: STEAMBOATS.]
+
+  Steamers to Corsica.--For invalids the easiest way is by the
+  large weekly Tunis steamer of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique,
+  12 R. de la Republique, which on its way from and to Marseilles,
+  touches at Ajaccio, 211 m. S., in 16 to 19 hrs., fare including
+  meals, 38 frs. The Compagnie Insulaire, 29 R. Cannebiere, have boats
+  every week for Ajaccio and Propriano, 38 frs., Calvi and Ile Rousse,
+  28 frs., Bastia and Leghorn, 32 frs., and Nice, Bastia and Leghorn.
+  Weekly steamers between Genoa, Leghorn and Bastia. The boats of the
+  Compagnie Insulaire being smaller, come within a few yards of the
+  mole. The luggage is landed from the steamers by the company free of
+  expense and is delivered at the custom-house to the proprietor on
+  presentation of the bulletin de baggage. Passengers are taken ashore
+  and to their hotels for 2 frs. each.
+
+  The Navigazione Generale Italiana, Piazza Marini, Genoa, have a
+  steamer every week for Portotorres, at the north-west extremity of
+  Sicily, calling at Bastia. Also from Leghorn to Bastia. Distance 72
+  miles, fare 20 frs., time 7 hrs.
+
+  Small steamer between Ajaccio and Propriano twice weekly.
+
+
+
+
+AJACCIO.
+
+  _Hotels._--On an eminence, in its own grounds, rising gently from
+  the sea, is the *Grand Hotel, with sea and fresh water baths and
+  every convenience; opened at the end of the present year. A skilled
+  English physician on the premises.
+
+  There are besides three good family hotels, charging from 8 to 12
+  frs.; in the Course Grandval, the H. Continental, wine 1-1/2 fr.,
+  carpeted brick floors, garden; near it, with south exposure and full
+  view of the bay, the *H. Suisse or Schweizerhof, wine 1 fr., smooth
+  wood floors, partially carpeted, garden; at the top of the Course
+  Grandval, the H. Bellevue, wine 1-1/4 fr., partially carpeted wood
+  floors, garden.
+
+  These prices include coffee or tea in the morning, meat breakfast
+  and dinner and service, but neither candles nor wine, of which the
+  lowest price per bottle is given above. In the Place Bonaparte is
+  the H. de France, a good French hotel, pension 8 to 12 frs.
+
+  _Bankers and Money-changers._--The bank Bozzo-Costa and the bank
+  Lanzi, both near each other in the Boulevard Roi Jerome.
+
+  The office of the Compagnie Transatlantique is in the same
+  Boulevard; the office of the Compagnie Insulaire is in the Place du
+  Marche.
+
+  _Cabs._--The course 1-1/2 fr., the hour 2 frs., the day 25 frs.
+
+  Tariff of return drives, with 2 frs. extra for every hour of repose.
+
+  _West_ from Ajaccio: Scudo, 5 frs.; Vignola 1114 ft., 15 frs.;
+  Vignola village, 10 frs.; Lisa, 15 frs.; Iles Sanguinaires, 10 frs.;
+  St. Antoine, 5 frs.; Salario, 5 frs. _North_ from Ajaccio:
+  Castelluccio, 4 frs.; Mezzavia, 5 frs.; Alata and Col Carbinica, 25
+  frs.; Afa, 20 frs.
+
+  _East_ from Ajaccio: the Campo dell' Oro, or the plain at the mouth
+  of the Gravona, 5 frs.; the Baths of Caldaniccia, 5 frs.;
+  Bastelicaccia, 5 frs.; Pisciatella, 6 frs. Three frs. gratuity for a
+  whole day. The horses cover on an average about thirty miles a day.
+
+AJACCIO, pop. 19,050, the capital of Corsica, is situated on the
+extremity of a small gulf 677 miles from Paris and 15 to 20 hours' sail
+from Marseilles. Founded in 1492 by the Bank of St. George of Genoa, a
+commercial association similar to the East India Company, it was raised
+in 1811 through the influence of Madame Letitia and Cardinal Fesch to
+the dignity of capital of the island, and became accordingly the
+residence of the Prefet and the seat of the civil and ecclesiastical
+Courts. Ajaccio has a handsome Episcopal chapel built by Miss Campbell,
+of Moniack Castle, Scotland, an accomplished lady, the authoress of a
+work on the island in French and English.
+
+In the Cours Napoleon is a small French mission, whose worthy pastor,
+besides conducting the regular Sunday services, gives two lectures
+(conferences) every week, which are attended by from 80 to 100 people.
+
+The houses in Ajaccio, as well as those throughout the island, are
+generally built in large square blocks of from 3 to 5 stories, each
+story forming a separate dwelling.
+
+[Map: Ajaccio]
+
+[Headnote: NAPOLEON'S BIRTHPLACE.]
+
+The mole at which passengers land from the steamers is at the foot of
+the Place du Marche. In the centre of this "Place" is a fountain
+ornamented with lions and a white marble statue of Napoleon I. by
+Laboureur. To the left of the statue is the Hotel de Ville, the markets,
+and the commencement of the Rue Fesch, in which is the edifice
+containing the public library, the museum, and the memorial chapel
+(p. 5); while to the right is the Rue Napoleon, in which the first
+opening right leads into the Place Letitia. A little beyond this opening
+is No. 17, the house of the Pozzo di Borgo family, of whom Charles
+Andre, 1768-1842, was the great upholder of Paoli and the bitter enemy
+of Napoleon I. Napoleon's house, though not equal to that of the Borgo
+family, was one of the best in Ajaccio. It is well built, of three
+stories of six windows each, and all the rooms have a more or less
+handsome marble chimney-piece. Over the door is inscribed on white
+marble "Napoleon est ne dans cette maison le XV Aovt MDCCLXIX". A good
+staircase, bordered by a wrought-iron railing, leads to the top. The
+rooms shown are on the first floor. The first is the parlour, with a
+small table, a few chairs, and a piano said to have belonged to Mme.
+Letitia. Then after having passed through a small chamber we enter the
+room in which Napoleon was born, into which Madame was brought hurriedly
+from the church in the sedan chair kept in the end room. Over the
+chimney-piece are portraits of the father and mother. Then follows the
+dining-room, and after it the drawing-room, with inlaid wood floor and
+six windows on both sides. The floors of all the other rooms are of
+glazed tiles. In the next room is the sedan chair. Fee for party 1 fr.
+
+This now silent and empty house was once enlivened and brightened by the
+fair Letitia and her large family of children, just like other men's
+children; schoolboys toiling at their Plutarch or Caesar, and their three
+young sisters growing up careless and rather wild, like their
+neighbours' daughters, in the half-barbarous island town. There is
+Joseph, the eldest, then Napoleon, the second born, then Lucien, Louis,
+and Jerome; then Caroline, Eliza, and Pauline, the children of a notary
+of moderate income, who is incessantly and vainly carrying on law-suits
+with the Jesuits of Ajaccio to gain a contested estate which is
+necessary to his numerous family. Their future fills him with anxiety;
+what will they be in the world and how will they secure a comfortable
+subsistence? And behold! these same children, one after the other, take
+to themselves the mightiest crowns of the earth--tear them from the
+heads of the most unapproachable kings of Europe and wear them in the
+sight of all the world; and they, the sons of an Ajaccio lawyer, cause
+themselves to be embraced as brothers and brothers-in-law by emperors
+and kings. Napoleon is European Emperor; Joseph King of Spain; Louis
+King of Holland; Jerome King of Westphalia; Caroline Queen of Naples and
+Pauline and Eliza Princesses of Italy. In 1793, after the flight of
+Madame Letitia and her children to her country residence, the Casone,
+the house was pillaged by the Corsicans opposed to the French Republic.
+
+[Headnote: CATHEDRAL.]
+
+Near the Place Letitia is the cathedral built in the 16th century by
+Pope Gregory. It contains the font at which Napoleon I. was baptized on
+the 21st July 1771.
+
+[Headnote: MEMORIAL CHAPEL.]
+
+In the Rue Fesch is the College founded in 1822. In one wing of the
+edifice is the public library, with 33,000 volumes, founded by Lucien
+Bonaparte, and the museum and picture gallery, with 900 paintings,
+mostly copies; and in the other the memorial chapel built by Napoleon
+III., lined with beautiful marble. In the crypt under the transept, left
+hand, is the tomb of Marie Letitia Ramolino, died at Rome in 1836; and
+right hand, that of Napoleon's uncle, Cardinal Fesch, died at Rome in
+1839. Both bodies were brought to this, their present resting-place, in
+1851. There are, besides, the tombs of Prince Charles and of Zenaida his
+daughter. Napoleon's father died in 1785 and is buried at Montpellier.
+Madame was only 35 at his death and had already borne him 13 children,
+5 of whom were dead, and Jerome was an infant in the cradle.
+
+Parallel with the Rue Fesch is the Cours Napoleon, by which all the
+diligences enter and leave the town. The continuation round the bay is
+bordered with plane trees. At the commencement is a bronze statue of
+"E. C. Abbatucci ne a Zicavo le 12 Novembre 1770, mort pour la patrie
+le 2 Decembre 1796." Near it is the railway station.
+
+At the western end of the Cours Napoleon is the Place Bonaparte or
+Diamant, bordered with trees and ornamented with a complicate bronze
+monument on a granite pedestal by Violet le Duc, "a la memoire de
+Napoleon I. et de ses freres Joseph, Lucien, Louis, Jerome." All are
+life-size statues; Napoleon is on horseback, the others on foot,
+marching solemnly towards the sea.
+
+
+[Headnote: WALKS.]
+
+EXCURSIONS.
+
+From the port, 11 m. W., is the chapel S. Antonio, 850 ft. The road
+passes the penitentiary of S. Antonio, 331 ft. North from it, under
+the peak of La Barrage, 1476 feet, is the Castelluccio penitentiary.
+Westward by the Hospice Eugenie and the Batterie de Maestrello, a
+pleasant road leads along the coast to the orange gardens of Barbicaja,
+passing by the Chapelle de Greco and the cemetery. About 4 m. farther is
+the Tete Parata, 199 ft., opposite the Iles Sanguinaires.
+
+A beautiful road, the continuation of the Cours Grandval, ascends 2-1/2 m.
+to the Fontaine du Salario, 760 ft., commanding enchanting views. This
+road traverses the Place Casone, 144 ft., occupying the site of the
+Casone, the country house of the Bonapartes, destroyed in 1878. Close by
+is the "grotte Napoleon," composed of blocks of granite, to which, it is
+said, the youthful Napoleon used to retire.
+
+About 6 m. N. from Ajaccio is the village of Alata, 1312 ft. Within an
+easy walking distance north from Ajaccio is the pleasant estate of
+Carrosaccia, on the canal which supplies the town with water from the
+Gravona. 5-1/2 m. N. from Ajaccio are the sulphurous springs of
+Caldaniccia.
+
+[Headnote: FAMILY TOMBS.]
+
+In the neighbourhood of Ajaccio and of the other Corsican towns and
+villages are numerous family sepulchral chapels enclosed within walls. A
+more pleasing characteristic feature, probably inherited from the Moors,
+are the numerous fountains in the villages and by the road side, whence
+flow streams of cold, sparkling water of exquisite purity.
+
+[Headnote: CLIMATE.]
+
+_Climate._--For convalescent invalids, Ajaccio forms a delightful change
+from the Riviera, as it is so rural, and has such pleasant air and good
+water. The hotels are comfortable and their charges moderate. As, too,
+the road metal used around Ajaccio is that disintegrating granite which
+so readily solidifies by the combined action of the rain and traffic,
+there is very little dust in the neighbourhood (p. 9).
+
+The principal winds are the Libeccio or S.W. wind, the Sirocco or S.E.
+wind, and the Mistral or N.W. wind.
+
+On the 12th, 13th and 14th of May the fair of St. Pancras is held, which
+affords a good opportunity for purchasing Corsican horses. They are from
+10 to 14 hands high and of great endurance. It is wonderful to behold
+the energy these small slim creatures display in dragging heavy
+lumbering diligences up long, steep, winding roads.
+
+But more wonderful still is it to see the peasant women and girls as
+young as thirteen carrying on their heads up and down the mountain paths
+big pails, or the more elegant two-handled brass jars of classic form,
+containing about two gallons of water, without ever stumbling on any of
+the many stones. The pails are made of copper lined with tin, weighing
+when full of water from 55 lbs. to 65 lbs.
+
+Among the curiosities of Ajaccio are gourds made into bottles, of
+various shapes and sizes and mounted with silver, and the pretty baskets
+made of straw by the girls of Alata.
+
+
+[Map: Environs of Ajaccio]
+
+
+Ajaccio to Bastia.
+
+  Ajaccio to Bocognano by rail, thence by diligence to Corte; Corte to
+  Bastia by rail 47 m., or 44 by road. The road from Ajaccio ascends
+  the valley of the Gravona to its source at the Col Vizzavona. On the
+  N. side of the Col it follows the course of the Vecchio. The most
+  picturesque part of this route is between Vizzavona and Vivario.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{ }{95}
+AJACCIO. Start from the station in the Cours Napoleon. The road, after
+traversing the fertile plain of Campo dell Oro, crosses the Col
+Sudricchio, 804 ft., and then the bridge of Ucciani, 948 ft., built in
+the reign of Louis XIV., 17-1/2 m. from Ajaccio and 2 m. from the village
+of Ucciani. Use general map, and map, p. 27.
+
+[Headnote: BOCOGNANO.]
+
+{25}{70}
+BOCOGNANO, pop. 2000, and 2120 ft. above the sea. _Inn:_ Univers.
+Picturesquely situated in a plantation of chestnut trees, surrounded by
+high mountain peaks. Near Bocognano commences the Vizzavona tunnel, 4375
+yards through the mountain. Diligence now to Corte. The road, having
+crossed the Sellola bridge, 2843 ft., winds its way up by the Col de
+Pinzalone, 3370 ft., and the Maison and Pont de Lavatoggio 3615 ft. to
+the top of the ridge. See map, p. 27.
+
+[Headnote: VIZZAVONA.]
+
+[Headnote: PINES.]
+
+{31}{64}
+LE FORT DE VIZZAVONA, on the summit of the Pass, 3813 ft. above the sea,
+with the Gendarmerie and a few houses of refuge. A few miles northwards
+is Monte d'Oro, 7845 ft., and southwards Monte Renoso, 7733 ft. The
+diligence, in its descent to Vivario, traverses the forest of Vizzavona,
+consisting mainly of beeches and larches, frequently 150 ft. high. Of
+this tree there are two varieties, the _Pinus pinaster_ or cluster pine,
+the _Pin maritime_ of the French, which grows best on deep loose soils
+and flourishes even on the drifting sands of the sea shore. They supply
+large quantities of resin. Their wood being soft, coarse and perishable,
+is usually converted into charcoal and lamp black. The other is the
+_Pinus laricio_, which thrives on the high lands of Corsica, Spain,
+south of France, Greece and Cyprus. Their growth is rapid, the trunk
+straight and from 100 to 150 ft. high, the branches are in regular
+whorls, forming in large trees a pyramidal head, and the leaves are
+slender, from 4 to 7 inches long, and of a dark green tint. The timber
+is good and durable, though less strong than that of the _Pinus
+silvestris_. Between the 51st and 53d kilometre stones are passed the
+"Maison de Refuge d'Alzarella," and the "Maison de refuge Omellina,"
+2832 ft.
+
+After crossing the Col de Campo di Lupo, 2684 ft., 35 m. from Ajaccio,
+the road descends into the ravine of the Vecchio, above which is
+
+[Headnote: VIVARIO.]
+
+{38}{57}
+VIVARIO, pop. 1500, and 2152 ft. _Inn:_ H. Voyageurs a three-storied
+house. Junction with road to Zicavo, 37 m. S. (pp. 27,29). Although
+Vivario be a poor village, yet it has a terrace and fountain ornamented
+with a statue of Diana. The breeding of pigs fed in the adjoining
+chestnut forest, and the manufacture of hams, sausages and bacon, are
+the most important industries of the inhabitants.
+
+  From Vivario a forest road extends 27 m. S.E. to the hamlet of
+  Vadina, by Muracciole 2022 ft., 1-1/2 m., the Col Erbajo 3018 ft.,
+  7 m.; Pietroso 10-1/2 m., Saparelli 12-1/2 m., and Quinzena 18 m. From
+  Vadina a good carriage road leads 6 m. to the Baths of Pietrapola,
+  which are supplied by most copious springs of hot, saline,
+  sulphurous water. The season is from May 1 to June 30; or
+  September 1 to November 30. The situation is beautiful and the
+  bathing-establishment and lodging accommodation comfortable, and
+  much frequented.
+
+The road from Vivario to Serraggio passes along the top of the rocky
+gorge of the foaming Vecchio. The best view of the gorge is from the
+Pont du Vecchio 40 m. from Ajaccio and 280 ft. above the bed. From
+Serraggio, 1890 ft., Mt d'Oro is well seen. See map, p. 20.
+
+The road now passes Lugo, 1980 ft.; S. Pietro, 2496 ft.; the Col. S.
+Nicolo, 2473 ft.; and Casanova, 2136 ft., to
+
+[Headnote: CORTE.]
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{51}{44}
+CORTE, 1329 ft., pop. 5500. _Hotels:_ *Paoli, 8 to 10 frs., Europe. Is
+situated at the junction of the Tavignano with the Restonico, in the
+midst of majestic mountains of the most varied form. The citadel or
+chateau, built in the early part of the 15th century, stands on
+precipitous and jagged rocks rising from the Tavignano, commanding from
+the top a magnificent view of the wild surrounding scenery. In the
+"Place" is a statue of Paoli, the Corsican patriot, born at Stretta in
+1726, and to the right of the statue the post and telegraph office. In
+the immediate neighbourhood stands a large house, a Franciscan convent,
+in which the Corsican parliament assembled in Paoli's time. Near Corte,
+by the left side of the Restonico, is a quarry of marble of a bluish
+tint with reddish white veins. To take the walk up the gorge of the
+Restonico, descend by first road left up the main street from the hotels
+and cross only the Tavignano bridge. The mountain appearing to close the
+valley is Mte. Rotondo. See map, p. 20.
+
+Coach to Aleria, 31 m. S.E. (p. 33), by a beautiful road.
+
+Just outside Corte the rail traverses the Torretta tunnel, 1531 yards.
+
+[Headnote: MTE. ROTONDO.]
+
+  From Corte the ascent of Monte Rotondo is most easily effected. It
+  is 8613 feet above the sea-level, or 7284 feet above Corte. Cabins
+  inhabited by the herdsmen are scattered over the declivities of the
+  mountain up to within 3000 feet of the top. Time 2 days. Guide with
+  mule 25 frs. Ascend by the road up the picturesque valley of the
+  Restonico to the Timozzo bridge, 3590 feet, and 2-1/2 hours from Corte.
+  From this the path extends 1-1/2 hour up the wild ravine of the Timozzo
+  to the shepherds' huts; whence the rest must be done on foot. Now
+  the hard work commences. Block lies above block, towering upwards
+  and upwards in such endless masses of monotonous gray that the heart
+  quails with the sight and the foot trembles to go farther. After
+  about 2 hours' scramble over these colossal steps the traveller
+  reaches the fontaine de Triggione, about 2200 feet below the summit
+  and in full view of it, an incomplete circle of steep jagged cliffs.
+  About 330 feet higher is a little dark lake, the Lago di Monte
+  Rotondo, encircled by gentle green slopes, where the night is
+  generally spent. Snow-field extend from the lake to the summit,
+  which, although apparently near, requires 2 full hours' climbing to
+  reach, often on hands and feet, over sharp fragments of rock, or up
+  steep beds of slippery frozen snow. The extreme peak is a rugged
+  obelisk of gray rock ending in a pinnacle. A way leads down by the
+  S. side in 6 hours, to Guagno by lake Bettianella, 3419 ft., then W.
+  by the road over the Col de Manganella, 5874 ft. See map, p. 20.
+
+[Headnote: GRANITE.]
+
+  "The view from Monte Rotondo did not impress me. The central
+  uplands, which form a large portion of it, are bare and arid, while
+  the great ridge of Monte Cinto stretches across the northern horizon
+  like a long screen. Comparatively little of the coast is seen in any
+  direction, but most towards the west. It was curious to notice how
+  completely the tops of the mountains between us and the Cinto ridge
+  were flattened down, while the crest on which we stood was a set of
+  bristling teeth. There are two kinds of granite in Corsica, one
+  friable and unable to resist the action of the air, the other hard
+  and defiant of the elements. Of this latter consist the Cinto range,
+  Monte Rotondo and the rocks in the forest of Bavella."--D. W.
+  Freshfield, Alpine Club.
+
+The road now from Corte to Bastia traverses the Quilico Col, 1932 ft.,
+passes Soveria, 1843 ft., and Caporalino, 8 m. from Corte, 36 from
+Bastia and 1 m. from Omessa. About 1-1/2 m. farther it crosses the Golo by
+the Francardo bridge, 856 ft., where it meets the great Forest Road from
+Porto, 50 m. S.W. by Evisa and the Col de Vergio, p. 18, and map, p. 20.
+
+[Headnote: PONTE LECCIA.]
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{66}{29}
+PONTE ALLA LECCIA, 624 ft. Village, and coach and railway station.
+_Inn:_ Cyrnoz. Diligence to Calvi by the beautiful northern continuation
+of the road from Prunete by Cervione and Piedicroce, p. 20. "Courrier"
+daily to Piedicroce, 18 m. S.E. by Morosaglia, see p. 34. During the
+summer heats Ponte alla Leccia is considered insalubrious.
+
+[Headnote: PONTE NOVO.]
+
+{71}{24}
+PONTE NOVO. The site of the disastrous battle fought on the 9th of May
+1769, when the Corsicans lost their independence and became subject to
+France. The two small houses on the right bank, a little farther down
+the river, were Paoli's headquarters. One month afterwards he, with some
+other Corsican refugees, sailed from Porto Vecchio in a British vessel
+for England (p. 39).
+
+[Headnote: BORGO.]
+
+{85}{10}
+BORGO, pop. 820. On the Mariana hills, rising from Lake Biguglia, one of
+the many lagoons on the eastern coast, separated from the sea by narrow
+sandbanks. Along this coast extend the only large plains in Corsica.
+Unfortunately, in summer they are subject to malaria, which, however, a
+judicious system of drainage is gradually abating. They are cultivated
+by Italian labourers who visit the island periodically. Between Borgo
+and Bastia is Bevinco, with valuable marble quarries. Southward from
+Borgo on the coast is Mariana, the site of the colony founded by Marius
+(p. 34).
+
+[Headnote: BASTIA.]
+
+{95}
+BASTIA, pop. 21,000. _Hotels:_ *France; Europe; Lingenieur; Croix de
+Malte over the post and telegraph office, all in the Boul. du Palais, 8
+to 10 frs. Theatre; Public Library with 65,000 volumes. Steamers twice a
+week to Marseilles, time 18 hours, touching once a week at Nice, 12
+hours distant. Fare direct to Marseilles, including food, 28 frs. To
+Nice, without food, 30 frs. Rubattino's steamers leave three times a
+week for Leghorn; time 6 hours. These same steamers proceed afterwards
+to Genoa. Railway to Corte. Rail also to Aleria, whence diligence to
+Bonifacio, Sartene and Ajaccio.
+
+Diligences daily from Bastia to Cap Corse, 7 hours, 6 or 5 frs.; and
+also to Calvi, 12 hours, 13 or 10 frs.
+
+[Headnote: BRANDO.]
+
+Carriages to visit the stalactite cave at Brando, 10 frs. Admission 2
+frs. each. It is 7 m. from Bastia, above Erbalunga, on the face of a
+mountain; and was discovered in 1841 by M. Ferdinandi. A steep path
+leads up to it. Keeper near cave. See p. 12.
+
+_Bastia_, the most important city of Corsica, is built on ground rising
+gently from the sea. Facing the sea and the principal harbour is the
+Place St. Nicholas, adorned with a marble statue of Napoleon I., by
+Bartolini, looking towards the island of Elba. In this "Place", the
+promenade of the town, are the offices of the Messageries Maritimes and
+of the Compagnie Insulaire. Fraissinet's office is at the old harbour;
+whence also their steamers sail.
+
+From the Place St. Nicholas ascends the principal street, the Boulevard
+du Palais, to the Palais de Justice. In this Boulevard are the post and
+telegraph offices (whence most of the diligences start), the hotels,
+cafes and the best shops, and from it ramify the streets of the town. At
+the top of the B. du Palais commences, right hand, the Boul. Cardo, one
+of the best roads to take for views of the town and neighbourhood. A
+flight of steps leads from the quay up to the cathedral, a handsome
+building in the Italian style. The markets are held in the "Place"
+fronting the cathedral. Most of the houses are built in large blocks
+from 5 to 6 stories high and from 6 to 9 windows broad, each story
+forming a separate residence.
+
+Bastia owes its name to the bastion built here by the Genoese in the
+14th century. From the hills behind Bastia the view embraces the islands
+of Gorgona, Capraja, Elba, and Monte-Christo, seen best from the top of
+the Serra di Pigno, 3640 feet. Refer to map on fly-leaf.
+
+[Headnote: STEAMERS.]
+
+The most beautiful part of Corsica, and the most easily visited, is the
+eastern side, including the Castagniccia or the chestnut country, and
+the whole region up in the mountains, which border this coast. The
+wealthiest, most industrious and most enterprising of the people are
+those who inhabit that long narrow tongue of land called Cap Corse.
+Although boats are constantly sailing from Marseilles and Leghorn to
+Bastia, invalids visiting Corsica with the intention of wintering in
+Ajaccio should, if possible, sail from Marseilles or Nice direct to
+Ajaccio; but on leaving the island, when winter is over, Bastia is
+perhaps the best port to sail from, as it affords an excellent
+opportunity for visiting the most beautiful parts of Corsica and the
+most important towns in Italy. On arriving at Leghorn (see Black's
+_South France_) it is best to proceed at once to the railway station,
+and start for Pisa, only 30 minutes distant. There are numerous trains.
+At the station and in the kiosques in the "Piazzas" of Leghorn, is sold
+an excellent little book with all the railway Time-tables, _L'Indicatore
+Ufficiale_, price 50 c.
+
+
+[Headnote: CAP CORSE.--WINE.]
+
+CAP CORSE.
+
+Bastia to Rogliano and Morsaglia.
+
+See General Map, p. 1.
+
+By diligence, fare to Rogliano, 4 frs. and 3 frs., distance 27-1/2 m., 6
+hrs. To Morsaglia, 5-1/2 and 4-1/2 frs., distance 37-1/2 m., 8 hrs. By
+the road skirting the eastern side of the peninsula of Cap Corse, the best
+cultivated part of the island, and containing the tidiest villages. The
+best Cap Corse wine, mostly white, is produced around Luri and Rogliano.
+The quality used as table wine is drunk the first year. It improves till
+the fifth year, the better qualities till the tenth and twentieth year.
+Cap Corse is traversed by a rugged mountain range or serra, of which the
+culminating peaks are Mount Alticcione, 4230 feet; Mount Stello, 4536
+feet; and the Serra de Pigno, 3640 feet. From the east side of this
+rugged serra little fertile valleys extend to the sea.
+
+[Headnote: PINO.--LURI.]
+
+  Mr. Freshfield thus describes the "Cap":--"Down a promontory 8 to
+  10 m. wide runs a range 3000 to 4000 ft. high, with the crest towards
+  the western coast and the valleys towards the eastern. Hence the
+  western Cornice road is a terrace along an always steep, sometimes
+  sheer, mountain side, while the eastern crosses a succession of low
+  maquis-covered spurs, which beyond Cap Sagro flatten and become
+  monotonous. Pino is one of the most beautiful sites on the western
+  coast. It is also important as the spot where the cross-road through
+  the vale of Luri, under Seneca's tower, falls into the western
+  Cornice. Half-way on this road the village of Luri groups itself in
+  the most picturesque way imaginable on a hill-side broken by a deep
+  ravine. Down on the seashore above the little Marina or port is a
+  large convent; a church occupies a projecting brow 200 ft. above it;
+  higher still, and right and left, every vantage-ground is occupied
+  by groups of well-built villas and sepulchral chapels. The slopes
+  are terraced into orchards of citron, lemon, peach and almond trees,
+  olive groves and vineyards, sheltered from the gales of winter by
+  high palisades."
+
+  Farther south, 5-1/4 m., is Nonza, with inn, 479 ft., pop. 550. Coach
+  to St. Florent. This is one of the most curious villages of the
+  island. It stands like an eagle's nest, perched above the sea on a
+  black rock on the mountain side. Its houses, built level with the
+  edge of the cliffs, formed in olden days a sufficient rampart
+  against marauders.
+
+The diligence having passed Lavasina 4-1/2 m. from Bastia, Brando 7 m.,
+and Erbalunga 6-1/4 m., halts at Sisco-port 9-1/4 m. To visit the cave of
+Brando take the steep narrow path left, near a mill, just before arriving
+at Erbalunga. Seats in shady places are placed here and there. The
+keeper's house is close to the entrance. The diligence then proceeds by
+Pietracorbara 11-1/2 m., and the Torre all'Osse 13 m.; one of the best
+remaining specimens of the 85 towers built by the Pisans and Genoese to
+ward off the attacks of the Saracens. From the Torre the diligence
+proceeds other 2 m. to Perticciolo, where it halts.
+
+[Headnote: SENECA'S TOWER.]
+
+Two miles farther is S. Severa, where the horses are changed and the
+passengers breakfast. From S. Severa, a road ramifies 10 m. W. to Pino
+on the other side of the peninsula by the valley of the Luri, with
+vineyards and orange groves, passing the village of Luri 3-1/2 m., with
+good inn, the Col de S. Lucie 7 m., 1363 ft., and Saronese 9-3/4 m. From
+the Santa Severa inn, Seneca's tower is distinctly seen, at the head of
+the valley, on the summit of a precipitous peak, rising from the S. side
+of the Col, 1355 ft., from which a steep, stony path leads up to it, by
+a forsaken Franciscan convent. The view is grand. To this tower, one of
+the many watch-towers built in the 12th cent., Seneca could never have
+been sent, but to the Roman colony of Mariana, then used as a place of
+banishment for political offenders.
+
+[Headnote: SENECA.]
+
+Lucius Annaeus Seneca was born at Cordova in Spain, just before the
+commencement of the Christian era. His eldest brother was A. Seneca
+Novatus, which name was altered afterwards to that of his adopted
+father, Junius Gallio. This brother was the proconsul of Achaia, before
+whom St. Paul was arraigned (Acts xviii. 12). While Seneca was still a
+child he was brought by his aunt to Rome, where he had for teachers
+Sotion, Papirius Fabianus and Attalus the Stoic. Although weak in body
+he was a most diligent student, which, joined to his powerful memory,
+enabled him to obtain at an early age important offices. Before his
+banishment, A.D. 41, he had already served as quaestor. Having irritated
+Caligula, he would have been put to death, had not one of the mistresses
+of the emperor assured him that it was not worth while, as Seneca was so
+consumptive he would soon die a natural death.
+
+In the first year of the reign of Claudius, his wife Messalina having
+become jealous of the influence his niece Julia, daughter of Germanicus,
+had over Claudius her husband, succeeded in getting rid of her by
+imputing to her improper intimacy with Seneca, then a married man. For
+that reason Seneca was banished to Corsica A.D. 41.
+
+During his exile he wrote his consolatory letter to his mother Helvia,
+as well as a panegyric on Messalina and a consolatory letter to
+Polybius, ostensibly to condole with him on the loss of his brother; but
+in reality to get that powerful freedman to exert his influence with the
+emperor, to recall his sentence of exile. This letter is full of fulsome
+flattery and expressions unworthy of an honest man.
+
+After the death of Messalina, Claudius married his niece Agrippina,
+sister of Julia and mother of Nero by a former husband. Through her
+influence Seneca was recalled A.D. 49 and appointed a praetor and tutor
+to Nero, then 11 years old. In A.D. 51 Agrippina poisoned her husband.
+
+
+[Headnote: MACINAGGIO.--ROGLIANO.]
+
+From S. Severa, the diligence, resuming its journey, passes Meria
+20-1/2 m., and halts again at the port of Macinaggio 2-1/2 m. more. From
+this commences the steep ascent up to Rogliano 1300 ft., a town built in
+groups on the side of the mountain, among vineyards and olive and
+chestnut trees, the inn being in the second highest group, near the
+post-office. After Rogliano the diligence crosses the Cols S. Anne,
+Cappiaja and S. Nicholas, and arrives at Botticella 31 m., and then
+proceeds to Ersa with inn, near the top of the Col de Serra 1182 ft.,
+commanding a good view of Cap Corse. Shortly afterwards the diligence
+arrives at Morsaglia, called also Pecorile, a village composed of groups
+of houses like Rogliano on the side of a hill. The conductor of the
+diligence will show the hotel. Six miles S. from Morsaglia is Pino, see
+p. 12.
+
+[Headnote: BOTTICELLA.]
+
+From Botticella a road leads 4-1/2 m. N. to Barcaggio, opposite the
+island of Giraglia, on which is a first-class lighthouse, 269 feet
+above the sea, seen within a radius of 14 m.
+
+From Morsaglia the road is continued 31 m. farther to the Col S.
+Bernardino on the Bastia and St. Florent road, passing Pino, 25 m. from
+the Col S. Bernardino; Minerbio, 21-1/2 m.; Marinca, 16 m.; Nonza, 9 m.;
+Farinole, 2-1/2 m.; Pont du Patrimonio, 1-1/4 m.; and joins the Bastia
+road at the Col S. Bernardino, 11-1/4 m. W. from Bastia.
+
+
+Bastia to Calvi.
+
+57 miles west; time 12 hours; fare 13 and 10 frs.
+
+[Headnote: COL TEGHIME.]
+
+  miles from BASTIA
+  miles to   CALVI
+
+{ }{57}
+BASTIA. The road traverses a mountainous country, with scanty
+vegetation. As far as St. Florent the prevailing rocks are micaceous and
+beyond granitic. Immediately after leaving Bastia the diligence
+commences the ascent of the Col de Teghime (1785 feet) in the Serra di
+Pigno, discovering as it winds its way upwards, an ever-extending
+panorama over the great eastern plain, including Lake Biguglia, and the
+Mediterranean with the islands of Elba, Gorgona and Monte Christo. As
+the road descends towards the western shore, the enchanting panorama of
+the blue gulf of St. Florent, encircled by low reddish rocks, gradually
+unfolds itself. It was at this road, made by Count Marboeuf, at which,
+it is said, King Bernadotte worked among the other labourers. It passes
+the hamlets of Barbaggio and Patrimonio, the Col St. Bernardino 11-1/4 m.
+from Bastia, and the Pont des Strette, and enters the valley of Nebbio,
+partly watered by the sluggish Aliso, flowing through a marsh crowded
+with oleanders.
+
+[Headnote: ST. FLORENT.]
+
+{14-1/4}{42-3/4}
+ST. FLORENT, pop. 760. Hotel de l'Europe, where a hurried breakfast can
+be had while the horses are being changed. Close to the village is the
+site of the ancient town of Nebbio, occupied now by a few poor houses
+and a small church, now a ruin, built in the 12th century. Napoleon
+said, "St. Florent has one of the finest situations I have ever seen. It
+lies most favourably for commerce, its landing places are safe and its
+roads can accommodate large fleets. I should have built there a large
+and beautiful city." It was one of the first places to give adherence to
+the Bank of Genoa.
+
+The road now for some distance leaves the shore and ascends a range of
+barren hills containing slate, limestone and granite. Hardy trees become
+more abundant than the chestnut, and the mountains higher and more
+imposing, as we approach the little port of
+
+[Headnote: L'ILE ROUSSE.]
+
+{42}{15}
+L'ILE ROUSSE, pop. 1610; Hotel Europe. The diligence stops in the
+"Place" near the monument to Pascal Paoli, and remains a sufficient time
+to enable the traveller to cast a glance over the main features of this
+port, founded by Paoli in 1759. The street beyond the "Place" leads by
+the market to the harbour and to the long jagged tongue of red sandstone
+rocks projecting into the sea, bearing on the extreme point a lighthouse
+of the fourth order. Steamer every alternate week to Marseilles. There
+is a charming view from the eminence St. Reparata, crowned with a
+church, now abandoned.
+
+Inland from L'Ile Rousse is the fertile valley of Balagna, famous for
+the size and fertility of its olive trees (p. 20).
+
+{47}{10}
+ALGAJOLA, pop. 200. The block of granite which forms the pedestal of the
+column in the Place Vendome came from the quarries of this place.
+Pillars 65 feet long can be procured from this quarry.
+
+[Headnote: LUMIO.]
+
+{51}{6}
+LUMIO, pop. 1100, among orange groves and high cactus hedges. From the
+hills here there is a beautiful view of the valley and gulf of Calvi.
+Junction here with road to Corte, 55-1/2 miles, south-east, passing through
+a charming and picturesque country (see p. 20).
+
+[Headnote: CALVI.]
+
+{57}
+CALVI, pop. 2200. _Inns:_ H. France, in the high town; *Colombani, in
+the low town, near the dil. office and the wharf. Steamer for Marseilles
+every alternate week. This, the nearest port to France, is composed of
+the Citadel or Haute Ville and the Port or Basse Ville. The former,
+although the residence of the public functionaries, has a dilapidated
+and forsaken appearance. A rough road, paved with blocks of granite,
+leads up to it and to the ramparts, commanding beautiful and extensive
+views. The houses, shops and streets of the Basse Ville are much better
+and more cheerful than those in the Citadel. Both are defended by Fort
+Mozzello, rising behind the harbour. On the Punta-Revellata is a
+lighthouse of the first order, with a fixed light seen 20 miles off.
+Eight miles S.E. from Calvi is Calenzana, pop. 2900, with the chapel of
+S. Restituta, visited by pilgrims.
+
+
+Calvi to Ajaccio.
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   AJACCIO
+
+{ }{102}
+Distance 102 miles S.E. The road skirts the coast the greater part of
+the way. The first village is Galeria, pop. 500--_Inn:_ Seta, 21 miles
+S. from Calvi. From Galeria the Route Forestiere, No. 8, extends 16
+miles eastwards to the Col Capronale, 4495 feet, in the forest of Ometa.
+Six miles from Galeria is the entrance to the forest of evergreen oaks
+of Treccio, as well as the commencement of the road, 4-1/2 m. long, to the
+forest of Perticato by the Col Erbajo, 3-1/2 m., 2090 ft., and the Bocca
+Melza, 4-1/2 m. 2500 ft.
+
+
+Galeria to the Forests of Filosorma.
+
+Grand scenery. Guide necessary. Map, p. 20.
+
+  This, the forest road No. 8, has two ramifications. The main line
+  follows the course of the Fango the whole way, and only becomes a
+  mule-path when near the Maison de Cantonniers d'Ometa, 14 m. E.
+
+  3-3/4 m. from Galeria a mule-path ramifies from the road to the hamlets
+  of Tuarelli, Prunicciole and Chiorna. 3 m. farther is the
+  ramification, 4-1/2 m. S., through the forest of Perticato by the Col
+  d'Erbajo, 2090 ft., 3-1/2 m. S., and the Bocca Melza, 2500 ft., 4-1/2 m.
+  S. From the Bocca Melza a very bad path leads 2 m. S. to the hamlet of
+  Pinito. At the beginning of the above ramification the main road
+  enters the Ilex forest of Treccio, and leaves it nearly 2 m.
+  afterwards.
+
+  8-3/4 m. from Galeria is a roadside inn, and 3-1/4 m. farther the
+  entrance into the Ilex forest of Ometa.
+
+  11-1/4 m. from Galeria and about 2 m. from the almost unknown valley of
+  the Lonca, an affluent of the Porto, is the Pont de Lancone, 1083
+  ft., across the Rocce. From this bridge there is a good view of Mt.
+  Tafonato, 7687 ft., to the N. E., with its singularly perforated
+  peak.
+
+  13-1/4 m. is the Grand Cassis d'Ometa, 1680 ft. A little farther the
+  road becomes a bridle-path, and ascends from 1677 ft. to the Maison
+  de Cantonniers d'Ometa, 2274 ft., and 1 m. farther is the end of the
+  forest of Ometa.
+
+  15 m. from Galeria is the Grand Cassis de Giargione, 1163 ft., and
+  about 2 m. farther the summit of Col Capronale, 4495 ft. A little
+  way beyond, at the Capo Guagnerola, is a beautiful semicircle of
+  reddish rocks covered with trees at the base. Farther E. by the Golo
+  this forest road joins the forest road No. 9 to Francardo (p. 18).
+
+  Having crossed the Col de Castellaccio, 850 feet, and passed through
+  the villages of Partinello and Vitriccia, 20 m. from Galeria, we
+  arrive at
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   AJACCIO
+
+{51}{51}
+PORTO (_Inn:_ H. Padoram), occupying a pleasant and sheltered situation
+at the head of a fine gulf, with a climate rivalling that of Ajaccio.
+Most of the timber from the forests of Valdoniello and Perticato is
+shipped here. For Porto to Ponte Francardo, see p. 18.
+
+  The road from Porto to La Piana (map, p. 20) affords a delightful
+  drive, and exhibits good engineering. It is cut for a considerable
+  distance through the rocks and cliffs and tall jagged peaks, like
+  cypresses turned into stone, standing on the edge of this savage
+  coast, parts of which are truly splendid. As the ascent is slowly
+  continued, charming views disclose themselves, and on each side of
+  the road the eye discerns some new beauty to dwell upon. At the Col
+  Geneparo, to the right are the ruins of the castle of the Colonnas
+  di Leca, rising boldly above the sea and surrounded and protected by
+  magnificent natural battlements and pinnacles. Six miles from Porto,
+  after having passed the Cols of Geneparo and Mezzano, both about
+  1250 feet, the traveller reaches
+
+[Headnote: LA PIANA.]
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   AJACCIO
+
+{58}{44}
+LA PIANA, 1587 feet, pop. 1280. _Inn:_ H. France. Delightfully situated,
+with a fine sea-view. From the Col San Martino, 1 m. from La Piana and
+1630 feet above the sea, the landscape undergoes a rapid change. The
+magnificent rocks become parched and arid and the grass as yellow as the
+soil where it tries to grow.
+
+[Headnote: CARGESE.]
+
+{70}{32}
+CARGESE, pop. 1100. _Inn:_ H. de Voyageurs. A large village at the foot
+of a hill which slopes down to the sea. It was founded by a colony of
+730 Greeks, who, fleeing from the oppression of the Turks, arrived and
+settled here, by the permission of the Genoese, in March 1676. For
+having refused to aid Paoli in 1755 against the Genoese their villages
+were burnt to the ground, and they themselves had to seek refuge in
+Ajaccio. After the cession of Corsica to the French in 1769 M. de
+Marboeuf had the village and church of Cargese built for the colonists,
+when they all returned. Greek is still spoken in the village, and it has
+a Greek as well as a Romanist priest.
+
+[Headnote: SAGONA.]
+
+{79}{23}
+SAGONA, pop. 100. The port of Vico. It contains a few houses, one of
+which is the inn, where beds, bread, eggs, coffee and wine can be had.
+On the beach are generally large logs brought down from the forests for
+shipment. Junction with road to Vico 9-1/4 miles E. (see p. 23), and also
+with the road extending 19 miles E. to the forest of Aitone, passing by
+the Col Vico, 7-1/2 m., 1607 ft.; Poggio, 12-1/2 m.; the Col Sevi, 3612
+ft., 13-1/4 m.; Cristinacce, 16-1/2 m.; and the Col Lacciola, 3040 ft. in
+the forest. Five and a half miles from Sagona are the cold sulphurous
+springs of Caldanella; efficacious as a tonic.
+
+{87-1/2}{14-1/2}
+CALCATOGGIO, pop. 670. A poor village on a hill above the road. From
+this the diligence shortly after commences the ascent of the Col
+Sebastien, 1344 feet, 12 miles from Ajaccio. After the Col Sebastien,
+the road having passed over the Col Staggiola, 930 feet, within a short
+distance of Appietto, situated on a hill; reaches
+
+AJACCIO, 102 miles south-west from Calvi.
+
+
+Porto to the Ponte Francardo.
+
+50 miles north-east. Map, p. 20.
+
+  This important forest road traverses the region of the highest
+  mountains and of the greatest forests, passes through Albertacce,
+  and by the other villages of the Canton of Calacuccia, and then
+  proceeds to Francardo by the defile of the Golo.
+
+  Porto to Evisa, 13-3/4 m., by an excellent carriage road wending
+  through most picturesque mountain scenery. The road, after following
+  the course of the Porto, crosses the stream Onda, ascends the ravine
+  of the Cario, which it crosses 3 m. from Porto under the Capo
+  Polmonaccia, 5627 ft. It now winds its way round little valleys into
+  the narrow gorge of the Porto between dark red cliffs crowned with
+  pinnacles. Nine m. from Porto is the ramification of the mule-path
+  to Chidazzo, and 1/2 m. farther the ramification to Marignano. The
+  road, after passing the chapelle S. Cyprien, enters Evisa, pop.
+  1000; _Inn:_ *H. Carrara; 2770 ft., on a high promontory projecting
+  in the centre of a mountain-girt basin from the central range
+  between two deep gulfs hollowed out to a depth of 2000 ft. Behind it
+  rise pine forests to a broad mountain crest, the pass of the Niolo.
+
+  Evisa is admirably situated for excursions. A difficult winding path
+  leads in 2-1/2 hours down to the great walls of the dark granite ravine
+  called the Spelunca, at the confluence of the Aitone with the Porto.
+  Rambles and drives into the forest of Aitone, from which
+  unfortunately the old stately pines have disappeared.
+
+  Evisa to Albertacce, 18 m. E. The road traverses the forest of
+  Aitone with its vigorous beeches and young pines (_Pinus laricio_),
+  whose stems are clear of branches from 80 to 100 ft. It is watered
+  by the Porto and numerous brawling streams; which rush down steep
+  ravines covered with moss and ferns. In the forest, 3 m. from Evisa,
+  by this road, is the Maison forestiere d'Aitone, where those
+  provided with introductions, see p. 41, will find pleasant
+  headquarters for grand excursions and fishing and botanical
+  expeditions. 1-1/4 m. farther is the house of the road menders
+  (Cantonniers) of Tagnone; where lodging can also be had.
+
+  The road having made several detours to get round the heads of
+  ravines, ascends the Col de Vergio 4803 ft. on the great mountain
+  chain separating the valley of the Golo from the valley of the
+  Porto. About 230 ft. above the Col on the Cricche ridge, a little to
+  the W., is an admirable view of Mt. Tafonato, 7687 ft., almost due
+  N., with a strange natural tunnel through the summit. From Mt.
+  Cuculla, 6733 ft., nearly 1-3/4 hours W. from the Col is a still better
+  view of Tafonato, and besides a sight of Mt. Cinto, the valley of
+  the Golo and the mountain range of Monte Rotondo. A little beyond
+  the summit of the Col is the Maison de Cantonniers de Castellaccio,
+  whence there is a good view of the forest of Valdoniello, 11,483
+  acres, containing besides many large pines very fine specimens of
+  beeches, birches and alders. The felling of the trees in this forest
+  commenced in 1863.
+
+  After arriving at the Maison forestiere de Sciattarina 10-1/2 m. from
+  Evisa, the road passes by some of the finest trees, and descends
+  into the valley of the Golo; which has its source in a ravine
+  between Mts. Tafonato and Paglia-Orba.
+
+  Four and a half miles farther is the Maison forestiere de Popaja,
+  3468 ft., 15 m. from Evisa and 3 m. from Albertacce. Either this
+  house or the former, make good quarters for exploring the forest.
+
+  Two miles farther is the Ponte Alto, 2740 ft.; where the road
+  crosses the Golo and enters the pastoral country of the Niolo; now
+  called the canton of Calacuccia, comprehending the villages of
+  Albertacce, Calacuccia, Corscia, Lozzi, and Casamaccioli.
+
+  From near the bridge a mule path of 1-3/4 m. ascends to Casamaccioli,
+  2780 ft., pop. 550; whence the continuation leads in 7 hours to
+  Corte by the Bocca la Croce, the Melo forest, and the valley of the
+  Tavignano.
+
+[Headnote: ALBERTACCE.--MONTE CINTO.]
+
+  Albertacce, 18 m. from Evisa, 2845 ft., pop. 1000, a dirty village
+  amidst chestnut and walnut trees; where a good deal of coarse linen
+  and Corsican cloth is woven. It is one of the places whence the
+  ascent is made of Monte Cinto, 8892 ft., in 7 hours, and in about 6
+  for the descent. The path ascends by Calasima, 3610 ft., to the
+  height of 5251 ft. After this the course extends almost horizontally
+  in a western direction across ridges, ascending by gradations more
+  or less fatiguing.
+
+  When about 7720 ft., and having climbed nearly 6 hours, a cave is
+  passed where shelter can be had. The remainder of the ascent is
+  comparatively easy. The view is grand, Monte Falo, 8363 ft., being
+  the most prominent object. The ascent cannot be made till the
+  beginning of summer on account of the snow.
+
+[Headnote: LAKE NINO.]
+
+  To Lake Nino, 5598 ft., the source of the Tavignano in 5 hours.
+  From the lake a mule path chiefly by the left bank of the Tavignano,
+  leads in 6-1/2 hours to Corte, through magnificent forests.
+
+  Around the lake are some shepherds huts; where rest and refreshment
+  can be had, but no further supply of food can be counted on between
+  the lake and Corte. The lake, full of fish, lies in a hollow between
+  high mountains, the highest being Mt. Retto, 6592 at the western
+  end.
+
+  Albertacce to Ponte Francardo, 18 m. N.E. The road follows the
+  Golo. To the left, a road 1-1/4 m., leads up to Lozzi, pop. 1050.
+  2-1/2 m. from Albertacce is Calacuccia, 2779 ft. pop. 860, and 2 m.
+  farther, another byeroad ascends to Corscia, 2913 ft., pop. 1000,
+  about 5 hours walk S. from Asco, whence also Mt. Cinto may be
+  ascended by the valley of the Asco called also Stranciacone. Asco is
+  5 hours from Olmi Capella by the Stranciacone, its affluent the
+  Tassinella, and the Col de Petrella, 6440 ft., to the S. of Mt.
+  Corona, 7032 ft.
+
+  Near the chapel of S. Pancrazio, 2786 ft., 4 m. from Albertacce is
+  the commencement of the Scala di Santa Regina, as this part of road
+  is called, cut in the face of perpendicular cliffs rising from the
+  bed of the Golo. About half way are the small chapel and inn of
+  Santa Regina, and the cave which in former times used to be the
+  stronghold of robbers.
+
+  Thirteen miles from Albertacce is the Pont du Diable, 1083 ft.,
+  where four roads meet. The road southwards or to the right leads to
+  Corte, 7 m. S. by Castirla and Soveria, and the Col of Oninanda,
+  2155 ft., between cliffs rising 1720 ft. above it.
+
+[Headnote: ASCO.]
+
+  The road leading northwards extends to the beautiful highway between
+  Ponte alla Leccia and Calvi; by Castiglione 3-1/4 m., pop. 550, at the
+  foot of Mt. Traunato, 7186 ft., Popolasca, 7 m., pop. 200, with
+  beautiful red granite pinnacles, and Moltifao 12 m., pop. 1050, with
+  Inn, consisting of a group of villages, clustered on the slopes of
+  the ridge which separate the valley of the Tartagine from the Asco.
+  The byeroad S.W. from Moltifao leads up the highly picturesque
+  valley of the Asco, with magnificent forest trees, to the village of
+  Asco, pop. 950, a group of hamlets seldom visited, although one of
+  the best points from which to make the ascent of Mt. Cinto.
+
+  [Headnote: PONTE FRANCARDO.]
+
+  The road leading 5 m. N.E. by the Golo extends to the Ponte
+  Francardo, where the rail may be taken. See p. 9 and General Map.
+
+
+Calvi to Corte or to Bastia.
+
+See General Map.
+
+  By Ponte alla Leccia. The finest part of the road is between Calvi
+  and the Col Colombano. "If I were to permit myself to dwell in
+  detail on the exquisite variety and charm of the drive, especially
+  after quitting the _route forestiere_ a little E. of the hamlet of
+  Palasca, I should wander far from the main purpose of this paper.
+  Valery, Gregorovius, Lear and others have done justice to its
+  wonderful beauty, and the last truly remarks that 'those who visit
+  Corsica without going through upper Balagne remain ignorant of one
+  of its finest divisions,' adding, 'no description can exaggerate the
+  beauty of this remarkable tract of mountain background and deep
+  valley, which for richness of foreground, cheerful fertility and
+  elegance of distance may compete with most Italian landscapes.' The
+  district is densely peopled--at least twelve large villages are
+  situated on the road itself between Belgodere and Lumio, a distance
+  of 21 miles--and picturesque hamlets with lofty campanili perch high
+  up on the mountain slopes or crown the summits of the lower hills,
+  whilst everywhere there is the richest culture and most varied
+  produce, and the charm of the picture is completed by continually
+  varying views over 'bowery hollows crowned with summer sea.'"--F. F.
+  Tuckett, Alpine Club.
+
+[Headnote: THE OLIVE TREE.]
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   CORTE
+
+{ }{61}
+CALVI. The road skirts the coast as far as Lumio, 6 m. from Calvi,
+whence it commences to ascend gradually by an admirably engineered road
+round the undulations of olive-clad mountains, disclosing at every turn
+a different view of the fertile valley of Balagna, extending from the
+distant mountains to the blue waters of the Mediterranean. It is said
+that there is no district throughout the whole of Italy where the olive
+attains such a size as in this valley. Of the tree there are three
+varieties, the Sabine (_Sabinacci_), the Saracen (_Saraceni_), and the
+Genoese (_Genovesi_), the most common of all, and is ascribed to the
+Genoese, who during the government of Agostino Doria compelled the
+Corsicans to plant olives in great numbers.
+
+[Map: Corsica Western Central Region]
+
+After passing the picturesquely situated village of Lavatoggio, 9 m.;
+the Col Cesario, 1200 ft., 10-1/2 m.; the villages of Feliceto, inn, pop.
+640, 16-1/4 m.; Castor, 24 m.; Speloncato; Ville di Paraso, pop. 750;
+Occhiatana, and many more perched on the surrounding mountain tops, or
+nestling in nooks among olive and chestnut trees, the diligence arrives
+at
+
+[Headnote: BELGODERE.]
+
+{26-3/4}{34-1/4}
+BELGODERE, 1017 feet, pop. 950, commanding the finest view of this
+beautiful valley, its orchards, fields and mountains undulating towards
+the blue sea. The diligence just remains long enough to give time to run
+through the gate and up the narrow dirty street to the top of the rock
+on which the houses are clustered, and there to take a rapid glance at
+the lovely scene around and underneath. After the gate, the diligence
+halts at the post-office, and then moves on a few yards towards the
+stables, where the horses are changed.
+
+FOREST ROAD FROM BELGODERE TO THE FOREST OF TARTAGINE.
+
+[Headnote: CAPELLA.--TARTAGINE FOREST.]
+
+  From Belgodere, Route Forestiere, No. 3, leads down to the small
+  port of Losari, 6 miles N. from Belgodere and 4-1/2 E. from the Ile
+  Rousse. A continuation of the same route southward extends to the
+  bridge across the Tartagine, 2355 feet, 25 miles from the Ile
+  Rousse, in the great forest of Tartagine. It passes the Bocca
+  Campana, 2782 feet, 3-1/4 miles from Belgodere; the Bocca Croce, 3045
+  feet, the culminating part of the road, 7 miles from Belgodere; and
+  2-1/2 miles farther, the hamlets of Olmi and Capella, 9 miles from
+  Speloncato; with ever-varying mountain and village scenes among
+  great forests; 20 m. from Belgodere is the Pont Tartagine in the
+  forest of that name. The forest of Tartagine, enclosed within the
+  high crests of the Capo Dente 6667 ft. on the west, and of Mt. Padro
+  on the east, measures 7166 acres, and contains principally the
+  _Pinus laricio_ and the _P. pinaster_, intermingled with ilexes or
+  evergreen oaks (p. 41).
+
+  "Olmi-Capella 2723 ft. is in an open airy situation, commanding fine
+  views of the mountains to the S. and S.W., and protected to some
+  extent on the N. and N.W. by the ridge which sweeps round to the
+  head of the Tartagine valley. This ridge, though in the
+  neighbourhood of the village only about 1000 ft. above the sloping
+  plateau on which it is built, rises to the W. into the peaks of
+  Monte Tolo 4370 ft., Monte San Parteo 5512 ft., Monte Cineraggia
+  5286 ft., Monte Grosso 6227 ft., Punta Radiche 6595 ft., Capo al
+  Dente 6667 ft., and Monte Corona 7031 ft. The N. slope of this ridge
+  is very steep, and commands most magnificent views of the Haute
+  Balagne and the sea beyond, whilst it is traversed by numerous
+  passes which afford charming scenery. Besides the _route
+  forestiere_, which crosses the Col de Bocca Croce 3048 ft., and by
+  which the timber of the forest of Tartagine is conveyed to Ile
+  Rousse for shipment, several mule-paths connect Olmi Capella much
+  more directly with Ville and Speloncato by the Bocca Battaglia 3550
+  ft., and Bocca Croce d'Ovo 3629 feet; with Feliceto by the Bocca
+  Pianile 5033 ft.; with Zilia and Calvi by the Bocca di Cineraggia
+  4698 ft.; with Calenzana by the Bocca Bianca 6155 ft., with
+  Calenzana or the Val Ficarella by the Bocca di Tartagine 6093 ft.;
+  and with the head of the valley of Asco by the Bocca de l'Ondella
+  6086 ft."--F. F. Tuckett, Alpine Club.
+
+[Headnote: PALASCA.]
+
+  miles from CALVI
+  miles to   CORTE
+
+{28-3/4}{32-1/4}
+PALASCA, pop. 550. Situated lower down than the high road and the last
+village on this side of the
+
+{31-1/2}{29-1/2}
+COL DE SAN COLOMBANO, 2625 feet above the sea. The view though more vast
+is less distinct, presenting a succession of mountain-tops, between
+which are dimly seen valleys with the sea in the distance. The diligence
+now descends into the narrow, rocky vale of the Navaccia, an affluent of
+the Tartagine, which enters the Golo a little above the important bridge
+called the
+
+[Headnote: PONTE ALLA LECCIA.]
+
+{46-3/4}{14-1/4}
+PONTE ALLA LECCIA. Inn at station. Here take rail for Corte (see p. 8)
+or for Bastia, 29 miles N.E. (see p. 10). The Ponte Nuovo is distinctly
+seen from the station. The two small houses near the railway bridge, on
+the S. side of the Golo, were Paoli's headquarters during the battle
+(see pp. 9 and 39).
+
+{61}
+CORTE, see page 8.
+
+
+Ajaccio to Vico and Evisa.
+
+33 miles north; time 7 to 8 hours; fare 4 frs.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   VICO
+
+{ }{33}
+AJACCIO. At about two miles from the town the diligence commences the
+ascent of the low Col of Stileto, passing the aqueduct for the Gravona
+water. On the left hand are the granite quarries whence the large slabs
+were taken for the monument to Napoleon in the Place d'Armes, as well as
+the long blocks for the pillars of the Marseilles cathedral. To the
+right are the village of Appietto, pop. 700, on a hill and the great
+cliff Monte Gozzi, 656 feet high.
+
+{12}{21}
+Summit of the COL ST. SEBASTIEN, 1344 feet above the sea, commanding a
+lovely prospect of the Bays of Liscia, Sagona and Cargese, and of the
+valley of Cinarca, with its villages and vineyards. At the foot of the
+Col is a small inn called Le Repos des Voyageurs, where bread and wine
+and capital sea-urchins can be had. They are eaten raw, and taken out of
+the shell by cutting it in two horizontally.
+
+{23}{10}
+SAGONA, junction with road to Calvi, 79 miles N. (see p. 17).
+
+{31}{2}
+Summit of the COL ST. ANTOINE, 1488 feet. Near the top, at some distance
+to the left, is the village of Balogna, pop. 600, while in front is seen
+the splendid range of the Monte Rotondo, among which the most
+conspicuous is La Sposata, at the head of wooded valleys.
+
+The road to the left or N. leads to Evisa, 18 miles from Vico, pop.
+1000, and 2770 feet above the sea. _Hotel:_ Carrara, a comfortable
+house, where vehicles may be hired. Evisa is charmingly situated on the
+confines of the forest of Aitone, containing 3,749 acres. Beyond Aitone,
+or 11 miles from Evisa, is the large forest of Valdoniello, 11,483
+acres. These forests, instead of extending monotonously on large plains,
+plunge into deep valleys, or creep up the sides of high mountains.
+
+From Evisa descend to Porto (see p. 18).
+
+[Headnote: VICO.]
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   VICO
+
+{33}
+VICO, pop. 2020. _Inns:_ France, where the diligence stops; Voyageurs;
+Univers. Most picturesquely situated in the valley of the Liamone,
+surrounded by steep mountains covered with apple, peach, chestnut,
+walnut, olive and oak trees. On the opposite side of the valley is the
+large whitewashed convent of St. Francis, with terraced garden shaded by
+tall magnolias, beautifully placed on a thickly-wooded bank, above which
+is seen the small hamlet of Nessa. It is a favourite summer resort of
+the _elite_ of Ajaccio, who revel here on carpets of cyclamen, violets,
+and a profusion of other wild flowers, in the shade of the dense foliage
+of the chestnut groves around.
+
+[Headnote: BATHS OF GUAGNO.]
+
+  Seven and a half miles from Vico up the wooded vale of the Liamone
+  and by the Bridges of Silvani and Belfiori, the village of Murzo and
+  the Col de Sorro, are the Baths of Guagno, with hot, sulphurous
+  springs, resembling in their properties those of Bareges in the
+  Pyrenees (see Black's _South France_). From May to September they
+  are much frequented, when a coach runs between Vico and Guagno.
+  Time, 2 hours; fare, 3 frs. Coaches can be hired at Vico for Evisa.
+  Charge, 10 frs.
+
+
+Ajaccio to Sartene.
+
+53 m. S. by diligence, over a hilly road; 13 hrs.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   SARTENE
+
+{ }{53}
+AJACCIO. The most comfortable way to go to Sartene is to take the
+steamer to Propriano, only 8 miles N. from Sartene, and there to await
+the daily coach. The diligence from Ajaccio, after having crossed the
+rivers Gravona, Prunelli, Agnone, Vergajolo and Margone, and the pass of
+Campolaccio, 843 feet, arrives at
+
+[Headnote: CAURO.]
+
+{12-1/2}{40-1/2}
+CAURO or CAVRO, 1180 ft. _Inn._ Coach to Bastelica. Pop. 700. A
+straggling mountain village, commanding extensive views.
+
+
+Cauro to Bastelica.
+
+  12 m. northwards by "Courrier" by a charming forest road, which
+  after crossing the Else at the Pont Zipitoli, 7 m. from Cauro,
+  enters the defile of the Prunelli at the Col de Menta, about 2 m.
+  from Bastelica.
+
+  The road from Cauro crosses the Col Torro, 1394 ft., 1-1/2 m. Four
+  miles, the col and bridge S. Alberto, 1710 ft. whence a road
+  ramifies 7-1/2 m. S. to S. Maria-Siche and Grossetto. On the right side
+  of the road a waterfall descends from the crest of the Usciolo.
+  Large oaks and chestnut trees with ilexes and pines are now seen.
+  7 m. here a short branch road leads to a maison forestiere surrounded
+  by large trees, at the foot of Mt. Mantelluccio, 5515 ft. A little
+  farther a road ramifies 4-1/2 m. by the wild and beautiful valley of
+  the Else into the forest of Ponteniello, and where it ends a mule
+  path commences to Frasseto, pop. 750, on the coach road between
+  Ajaccio and the baths of Guitera. 7-1/2 m. the Zipitoli bridge across
+  the Else, a short way above its junction with the Prunelli. On the
+  right side of the river is the Maison de Cantonniers of Zipitoli.
+
+  8 m. The Col Crichetto, 2380 ft., and nearly 3 m. farther the Col
+  Menta, 2458 ft., from which the road descends to the Prunelli and
+  continues by its banks to
+
+[Headnote: DOMINICACCI.]
+
+  Bastelica, pop. 4000, inn, 2400 ft., consisting of a group of
+  hamlets, none of which bears the name of Bastelica. Sampiero was
+  born in the one called Dominicacci, between Stazzona and Costa, at
+  the end of the 15th cent., and killed by the Ornanos in the defile
+  of the Prunelli on the 17th January 1567. The house which stands on
+  the site of the one he lived in bears an epitaph to his memory,
+  placed by "William Wyse, Irish Roman Catholic, nephew of Napoleon
+  the Great."
+
+[Headnote: MT. RENOSO.]
+
+  Among the many pleasant excursions is the ascent of Mt. Renoso, 7733
+  ft., 5-1/2 hrs. N.E.
+
+  In summer men go up every day with mules for frozen snow. There are
+  lakes on the south and east sides of the mountain, and some fine
+  velvety swards. Map, p. 27.
+
+Five miles beyond Cauro, the Sartene road attains the summit of the Col
+St. Georges, 2500 ft., commanding a fine prospect of the surrounding
+country, and afterwards descends to the valley of Ornano, the native
+land of Vanina, traversed by the Taravo.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   SARTENE
+
+{20}{33}
+APA, whence a Route Departamentale extends 18 m. N.E. to the baths of
+Guitera and Zicavo. Maps, pp. 1 and 27.
+
+
+AJACCIO TO ZICAVO AND THE BATHS OF GUITERA.
+
+[Headnote: BATHS OF GUITERA.]
+
+  8-1/4 hrs. by coach and 39 m. from Ajaccio by the Apa mill, 1841 ft.,
+  then by the slopes of the Punta del Castello, 2674 ft., through a
+  charming country, to S. Maria-Siche, 2 m. from Apa, inn where
+  coach stops, pop. 800. An old lofty building here of granite, with
+  the remains of towers blackened by age, was the birthplace of the
+  unfortunate Vanina, strangled by Sampiero, p. 39. The ruins of the
+  chateau he built for himself in 1554, after his house had been
+  destroyed, are seen on a hill to the left of the road. Coaches for
+  Ajaccio, Guitera, Zicavo, and Propriano. 4-1/2 m. from Apa at Campo,
+  pop. 390, the road describes a great circuit to get round the head
+  of the defile of the torrent of Frasseto, an affluent of the Taravo.
+  1-1/4 m. farther is Frasseto, pop. 740. When about 2770 feet high there
+  is, through an opening, a superb view extending to the sea by the
+  valley of the Frasseto. 8 m. from Apa is the Col de Granace, 2713
+  ft., with a splendid view. Zecavo, 10 m., 2238 ft., pop. 510, on an
+  affluent of the Taravo. Then rounding the buttresses of the Sposata,
+  3288 ft., enter the village of Corrano, 12 m., pop. 470, in a lovely
+  situation. 14-1/2 m. from Apa and 34-1/2 from Ajaccio are the hot
+  sulphurous springs of Guitera, with hotel, 1437 ft., on the right
+  bank of the Taravo, an excellent trout stream. Coach to and from
+  Ajaccio during the season, from May to September. Pleasantly
+  situated among cork oaks and banks covered with the Osmunda fern.
+  The road from the Baths of Guitera up to Zicavo, 3-1/2 m., follows for
+  about 1 m. the Taravo till its union with the torrent from Mt.
+  Coscione, whence it climbs up through the gorge to
+
+[Headnote: ZICAVO.--MT. INCUDINE.]
+
+  Zicavo, pop. 1500, hotel, 2385 ft., charmingly situated,
+  overlooking the valley of the Taravo, 38 m. by coach from Ajaccio.
+  From Zicavo the ascent is made of Monte Incudine, 7008 ft., in 6
+  hrs. Mules can be employed to within 1/2 hr. of summit. Although not
+  difficult, guide and mule are advisable, if for nothing else than to
+  assist in fording the streams. After having passed the chapel of S.
+  Roch, ascend a steep mule path, right, among the largest and best
+  formed chestnut trees in the island, then rounding Mt. Buchino, 3623
+  ft., among ilexes, and Mt. Occhiato, 5749 ft., covered with beech
+  trees, ascend southwards by a wooded ravine between great rocks.
+  Between 2 and 3 hrs. the Pastures of the plain of Coscione, with
+  many shepherds' huts, are reached, whence Mt. Incudine is seen.
+  After leaving this the path becomes very bad, over loose stones and
+  across troublesome torrents. These are succeeded by an annoying
+  thick coppice of alders, and then the Col de Cheralba, 6345 ft., is
+  ascended, in about 5-1/2 hrs. from starting. The mules are left here,
+  and the ascent is made by the western flank, taking care to make the
+  guide understand that the highest peak is wanted, and not the Rocher
+  de l'Incudine. "The view is probably the most beautiful in
+  Corsica--a vast panorama full of variety. Steep pine clad hills sink
+  abruptly into the eastern sea; glens open southward on a rich
+  glowing valley; the blue depths of the bays are fringed with an
+  edging of white sand and green water. The great granite aiguilles of
+  the forest of Bavella, a strange array of horns and pinnacles, run
+  across the foreground; to the left the long fiord of Porto Vecchio
+  stretches far into the land; while in the centre of the picture are
+  spread out the broad Straits of Bonifacio, studded with pale isles
+  and islets. On the left is Caprera, the home of the liberator of the
+  Two Sicilies. [Headnote: NELSON.] The one beside it, Maddalena, is
+  linked with even greater memories--Nelson and Napoleon. Under its
+  lee, in a bay which Nelson christened 'Agincourt Sound,' the British
+  fleet lay for months before the battle of the Nile, watching for the
+  French squadron sheltered behind the guns of Toulon. Two silver
+  candlesticks on the altar of the village church record Nelson's
+  gratitude for the friendly services of the inhabitants. It was in
+  attacking this same village that Napoleon, in 1793, first saw fire.
+  For mountain views the Alpine clubman is spoilt, but for sea views,
+  and they are not less beautiful, he must go far, perhaps as far as
+  Greece, to find such another."--D. F. Freshfield, Alpine Club. See
+  map on fly-leaf.
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   SARTENE
+
+{21}{32}
+GROSSETO, 1476 feet, pop. 600; 4-1/2 hours by diligence from Ajaccio.
+  A little beyond the inn is the church, sheltered by large ilex
+  trees, which grow to a great height in this neighbourhood.
+
+{30}{23}
+BICCHISANO, 350 feet, pop. 1800, where the passengers dine.
+  The diligence then passes the villages of Petreto and Cassalabriva,
+  pop. 300, and shortly afterwards reaches the summit of the Col
+  Celaccia, 1910 feet, about 2-1/2 m. E. from Sollacaro, pop. 800, where
+  Boswell visited Paoli. Sollacaro is not on the highroad.
+
+[Headnote: OLMETO.]
+
+{39}{14}
+OLMETO, pop. 1650, hotel. On a hill, with an extensive view.
+  In the neighbourhood, on Monte Buttareto, are the ruins of the
+  castle of Arrigo della Rocca. No more beautiful sight than that of
+  Olmeto can be pictured. Immediately below the town the ground dips
+  steeply down, covered with corn or turf; or in terraces of vineyard,
+  varied with large groups of fine olive trees stretching down to the
+  shore. Above the village a vast growth of vegetation climbs the
+  heights. Among huge masses of granite are tangles of every shrub the
+  island produces, the wild olive or oleaster being one of the most
+  elegant; while every part of the heights close to the town abounds
+  with little picture subjects, with a clear blue sky for a
+  background.
+
+  The road now descends to the coast, and after crossing the Baracci,
+  near the hot sulphurous mineral baths of Baracci, arrives at
+
+[Headnote: PROPRIANO.]
+
+{44-1/2}{8-1/2}
+PROPRIANO, pop. 1000. H. France.
+  Every Saturday a steamer arrives from Ajaccio, and returns on the
+  Monday morning. Another steamer twice weekly between this and
+  Ajaccio. Near the bridge over the Rizzanese, are the two Celtic
+  monuments called the Stazione del' Diavolo.
+
+PROPRIANO TO SOLENZARA.
+
+  Two and a half miles beyond the bridge commences the Route
+  Forestiere, No. 4, leading to Solenzara, 42-1/2 m. N.E. This road
+  ascends by the Rizzanese to S. Lucia di Tallano, whence eastward to
+  Levie, 1970 ft.; and thence Zonza, 2586 ft. The road afterwards
+  ascends N.E. by a picturesque ravine to the Col Bavella, 3965 ft.;
+  whence after descending to the Maison Cantonniere, 1476 ft., it
+  crosses the Col Larone, 2013; whence it descends by a winding road
+  partly by the banks of the Fiumicello and partly by the R. Solenzara
+  to Solenzara (see p. 36).
+
+[Map: Corsica, Central Region]
+
+Shortly after crossing the Rizzanese the diligence commences the long
+ascent to Sartene, disclosing views of the great valley below and of the
+splendid snowy heights of the long range of mountains opposite,
+terminating in the lofty regions of the great Monte Incudine, 7008 ft.
+
+[Headnote: SARTENE.]
+
+  miles from AJACCIO
+  miles to   SARTENE
+
+{53}
+SARTENE, 1000 feet; pop. 6010; _Inns:_ Commerce: Univers.
+  Coaches daily to and from Ajaccio, Bonifacio and Santa Lucia di
+  Tallano. Old Sartene is a town of narrow streets approached by a
+  fine bridge, whence the whole valley is seen down to the Gulf of
+  Valinco. It still retains some towers and parts of the walls erected
+  in the 16th century. The houses are built of rough, dark gray
+  granite, with steep stone steps leading up to the main entrance, and
+  odd Italian chimneys, some in the shape of pillars with curious
+  capitals, others in the form of towers or obelisks. The houses
+  bordering the Nouvello Traverse and the streets leading into the
+  "Place" form the new town.
+
+
+Sartene to Corte by Vivario,
+
+up the centre of the island. Maps, pp. 1 and 27.
+
+  This grand mountain road, No. 196 bis, extends from Sartene,
+  73 m. N. to the Ajaccio and Corte road, which it joins at the 60
+  kilometres-stone, on the Col Serra, 1/2 mile from Vivario. All the
+  diligences between Ajaccio and Corte halt at the inn of Vivario
+  (p. 8).
+
+[Headnote: S. LUCIA DI TALLANO.]
+
+After leaving Sartene the road crosses the Fiumicicoli and ascends the
+valley of the Rizzanese to Loreto, 12 m., and Cargiaca 15 m. N. from
+Sartene 1302 ft.; grand view. Near Loreto is S. Lucia di Tallano, 1270
+ft., with a quarry of a beautiful amphibole, a variety of hornblende.
+The ground colour is grayish blue sprinkled with white and margined with
+black spots (see p. 37).
+
+[Headnote: ZICAVO.]
+
+From Cargiaca the road enters the valley of the Coscione and ascends
+through the ilex forest of Taca amidst towering mountains and vertical
+cliffs by the villages of Zerubia and Aullene, 2736 ft., pop. 1100; inn;
+21 m. N. from Sartene. It now crosses the Coscione, 3492 ft., then the
+Col Vaccia, 3898 ft., and descends by the Col d'Alisandri, 3426 ft., to
+Zicavo, 2445 ft., with an inn, 17 m. from Aullene, 3-1/2 m. E. from the
+baths of Guitera, 38 m. N. from Sartene and 37 m. S. from Vivario.
+
+From the Bocca Tinzole a road ramifies N.W. to Olivese 1460 ft., pop.
+700, in the valley of the Taravo, 7 m. from Guitera by a beautiful
+road.
+
+From Zicavo the road crosses the Col San Francesco, 1969 ft., to
+Cozzano, 40 m., pop. 900, and enters the valley of the Taravo, which it
+ascends by the east bank between two great mountain chains, the
+culminating point of the western chain being Mt. Don Giovanni 6405 ft.,
+and that of the eastern Pointe Capella 6706 ft.
+
+Three and a quarter miles up the valley from Cozzano a wheel road leads
+1-1/2 m. E. to the Maison Forestiere of St. Antoine, whence a mule path by
+the Col de Rapara, 5557 ft., extends to Isolaccio and the hot baths of
+Pietrapola, p. 8, by a picturesque road through a beautiful part of the
+forest.
+
+Four and a half miles above Cozzano is the Col Scrivano, 2959 ft.,
+whence a mule path leads across the valley to Palneca, pop. 1050, on the
+wooded slopes of Mt. Pietra Cinta, 4958 ft.
+
+A little below the summit of the Col is the Maison de Cantonniers de
+Scrivano.
+
+Nine and a half miles N. from Zicavo is the bridge Argentuccia, fronting
+a grand semi-circle of mountains covered with noble trees. This is the
+commencement of the real Verde forest.
+
+Eleven and three quarter miles from Zicavo is the Maison de Cantonniers
+de Ghiraldino, 3936 ft., 49 m. N. from Sartene, 2 m. S. from the Col
+Verde and 5 m. S. from the House of Refuge of Marmano. A little beyond
+the house a wheel road, left, descends into one of the finest parts of
+the Verde forest.
+
+[Headnote: COL VERDE.]
+
+Thirteen and three quarter miles from Zicavo and 51 m. from Sartene is
+the Col Verde, 4290 ft., with, nearly a mile distant, the Maison de
+Cantonniers de Marmano. Below is the forest of Marmano, with its best
+trees cut down, and in the neighbourhood the sources of the rivers
+Taravo, 5678 ft., at the Col Tisina, of the Fium Orbo, 3783 ft. under a
+mountain a little to the N. of the Col Verde, and of the Prunelli, 4790
+ft., among a group of high mountains to the W. The Vecchio rises from
+the springs on Mt. Oro.
+
+[Headnote: REFUGE DE MARMANO.]
+
+Seventeen miles from Zicavo and 54 m. from Sartene is the Refuge de
+Marmano, 3182 ft., beautifully situated. Here was formerly the summer
+station of the Casabianda penitentiary. The escaped criminals committed
+such outrages that the government at the repeated petitioning of the
+shepherds were obliged to withdraw it. Finally Casabianda was abandoned
+also, and the prisoners removed to the neighbourhood of Ajaccio, where
+they could be well looked after.
+
+Food and lodging may be obtained at the Maison Forestiere, or 1-1/4 m.
+farther at the Maison de Cantonniers de Canareccia, 2760 ft., in the
+rocky defile of the Fium Orbo. Between this and Ghisoni, 6 m., 3 bridges
+and 2 low Cols are crossed. At the second bridge, the Pont de Casso,
+4-1/2 m. from Ghisoni, are seen the great pinnacles or needles and lofty
+cliffs of Albuccia Point or Kyrie Eleison, 4935 ft.
+
+From the Canaraccia the road winds its way northward along the flanks of
+mountains sloping down to the Orbo, which it leaves shortly before
+reaching
+
+[Headnote: GHISONI.--COL SORBA.]
+
+Ghisoni, pop. 1740, 2160 ft., 62 m. N. from Sartene, 12 m. S. from
+Vivario, 8 m. N. from the House of Refuge, and 24 m. N. from Zicavo.
+Four m. N. from Ghisoni the road crosses the Col Scozzolatojo, 3916 ft.,
+and 2 m. farther the Col Sorba, 4310 ft., 6 m. S. from Vivario, see p.
+8. The descent from the Col Sorba into Vivario is very striking. It is
+effected by excessively sharp zigzags through a noble pine forest.
+Between the branches tower the bold forms of Monte d'Oro, Monte Rotondo,
+and, in the distance, behind the uplands of Corte, the crags of Monte
+Traunato.
+
+The best resting-places on this road are Zicavo, 39 m. S.E. from
+Ajaccio, from which it is approached by a diligence; and the pleasant
+village of Ghisoni, where there is a very fair inn. At Vivario there is
+the Hotel Voyageurs. Guides and carriages should be hired either at
+Sartene or Vivario, 20 frs. per day.
+
+
+Ghisoni to Ghisonaccia.
+
+18 m. S.E. Maps, pp. 1 and 27.
+
+  By the Forest road No. 5, cut for nearly 11 m. in the face of the
+  steep cliffs which enclose the Orbo. As this road in all the
+  dangerous parts is hardly 11 ft. wide, it is necessary to ascertain
+  before starting in a vehicle, the position of the carts conveying
+  the logs, and to arrange accordingly.
+
+  The road descends from Ghisoni to the Pont de Regolo, 2077 ft.,
+  where it crosses the Casapietrone, and then follows the course of
+  the Fium Orbo, crosses the Ruello Bridge 1450 ft., and enters the
+  Salto della Sposata 4-1/2 m. from Ghisoni, where the river flows in a
+  narrow bed between vertical precipices, some more than 1200 ft.
+  high.
+
+[Headnote: L'INZECCA.]
+
+  The road, chiselled out of these cliffs, passes under 3 great
+  portals. From the third is seen, through the great cleft in the rock
+  of Inzecca, the sea at Aleria.
+
+  After this the defile opens up to close again between serpentine
+  cliffs. It then crosses the 2 Ponts de Parabuja and the viaduct de
+  l'Inzecca, and reaches the entrance to the Passage de l'Inzecca,
+  7 m. from Ghisoni, 985 ft. above the sea, where the road is cut
+  through great serpentine rocks. This is the most difficult part for
+  the waggons to pass. Map, p. 27.
+
+  The plain now widens, and 8 m. from Ghisoni a branch road leads to
+  Vezzani.
+
+  Nine and a quarter miles from Ghisoni is the Col S. Antoine, 355 ft.,
+  and 8-3/4 m. farther is Ghisonaccia, p. 32.
+
+
+Sartene to Bonifacio.
+
+33 miles south-east, by diligence; time, 6 hours.
+
+  miles from SARTENE
+  miles to   BONIFACIO
+
+{ }{33}
+SARTENE. The road winds its way through great blocks of granite
+scattered on a plain studded with shrubby specimens of the ilex, towards
+the shore of the Golfo di Roccapina, with a fantastically shaped rock
+called il Leone Coronato. East from the gulf the road passes the village
+of Pianottoli, 21 m. from Sartene, almost due south from the singular
+mountain l'Uomo di Cagna, 3980 ft.; then the bridge across the Figari at
+the head of the Gulf of Figari, 23 m.; the Col de la Testa or Scopeto,
+225 ft., 24 m.; and the bridge across the Ventilegni, 27 m. from
+Sartene, and 6 from Bonifacio.
+
+[Headnote: BONIFACIO.]
+
+{33}
+BONIFACIO, pop. 4000. H. du Nord; France in the high town. Diligences
+leave daily for Bastia, Sartene, and Ajaccio. A steamer arrives every
+Saturday from Ajaccio and returns on the Monday. Bonifacio was founded
+in 833 by the Tuscan marquis whose name it bears, to protect this part
+of the island against the piratical incursions of the Saracens. The high
+town is built on the top of a limestone rock rising vertically from the
+sea. The low town occupies one side of the fine natural dock, hemmed in
+by perpendicular cliffs with an opening of only 328 yards towards the
+sea. From the steamboat wharf a broad paved series of steps leads up to
+the high town, entering it through the Porte Vieille. In the old house
+fronting this Porte or gateway, Charles V., in 1541, stayed two days and
+a night on his return from his unsuccessful expedition against Algiers.
+Overtaken by a storm, he had taken refuge in the Gulf of Santa Manza.
+The door of the house, decorated with an arabesque on marble, is in the
+narrow side street. In the Place d'Armes are the church of San Domenico,
+built by the Templars, characterised by its octagonal tower with an
+embrasured termination; and the great tower "Torrione," part of the
+fortifications built by the marquis, and formerly the most important
+part of the citadel. Near this tower is the flight of steps "Redragon,"
+cut in the rock by the Genoese, which descends by 202 steps to the sea.
+The small room over the gateway of the citadel, opposite the house of
+Charles V., was inhabited by Napoleon for nearly eight months. There are
+grand sea-views from the ramparts. The town consists of tall, dingy
+houses, and narrow, steep, and in most cases dirty streets. The
+promenade of Bonifacio is the small covered terrace before the church of
+Santa Maria. Here also is the public cistern.
+
+Of the numerous caves which pierce the base of the rock of Bonifacio,
+the most remarkable one enters from the sea, 214 feet below the Place
+d'Armes, and extends to an unknown distance. It contains a freshwater
+lake, which rises and falls with the tide. A staircase with a vaulted
+roof and consisting of 337 steps leads down to this lake. The water is
+brought up to the surface by a force pump, is perfectly transparent,
+with a slight calcareous taste. In the high town there are 39 private
+and one public cistern, in which the rain water from the roofs is stored
+up. The low town has a well supplied from a stream by an aqueduct. The
+afternoon is the best time to visit the caves. A boat for one or party
+should not cost more than 5 frs. The finest, the Dragonetta, cannot be
+visited when the sea is rough.
+
+On Monte Pertusato (the south extremity of Corsica), 2 miles S.E. from
+Bonifacio, is a lighthouse of the first order, 325 feet above the sea.
+The southern promontory is pierced by a cavern hung with stalactites.
+
+
+Bonifacio to Bastia.
+
+103 miles; diligence to Ghisonaccia, 50 m. N., the rest by rail.
+
+  miles from BONIFACIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{ }{103}
+BONIFACIO. The diligence, after passing the Col Finocchio, 354 feet, 2-1/2
+miles N. from Bonifacio, the Maison Francola, 7 miles, the bridge across
+the Stabiacco, 16 miles, and the Col Mattonara, 17-1/2 miles (whence the
+Route Forestiere, No. 11, ascends 14 miles west into the forest of the
+Ospedale), arrives in 3 hours at
+
+[Headnote: PORTO-VECCHIO.]
+
+{27}{76}
+PORTO-VECCHIO, pop. 2740. Hotel Amis. Surrounded by its old walls, and
+at the head of a beautiful gulf. The surrounding country is fertile, but
+unhealthy during the hot weather, on account of the miasma rising from
+the morasses and lagoons. To the N. of Porto, the mountains still
+approach near to the sea; but beyond Solenzara (where the diligence
+halts) 41-1/2 miles from Bonifacio, they recede and leave free those great
+undulating plains which characterise the eastern coast of
+Corsica--plains almost uninhabited and covered with heaths. From the
+north side of the Travo commences a series of large lakes swarming with
+fish and a kind of cockle. They are separated from the sea by long
+narrow sandbanks, like earthen break-waters. The malaria prevails from
+June to October, but even then only the night should be avoided in
+travelling along this coast. The road after passing by the hamlet of
+Favona, 33 m., arrives at
+
+[Headnote: SOLENZARA.]
+
+{45}{58}
+SOLENZARA. Whence a wheel road extends westwards into the forest of
+  Bavella by the Col Bavella 18-1/2 m. S.W., and the Col Scalella, 22 m.,
+  2982 ft. to Zonza, 24-1/2 m. from Solenzara; 4 m. farther is the
+  village of S. Gavino di Carbini, 2292 ft., and other 2-1/2 m. the
+  village of Levie; 30 m. S.W. from Solenzara, and 10-1/2 from Propriano
+  is S. Lucia de Tallano, on the highroad to Aullene (see p. 27), and
+  for continuation of this road to Propriano see p. 26.
+
+The road to Bastia, after passing the Travo, 44 m., Vicchiseri, 46 m.,
+and Casamozza, 48-1/2 m., arrives at the railway station of
+
+[Headnote: GHISONACCIA.]
+
+{53}{50}
+GHISONACCIA, pop. 850. On the Fium Orbo, 36 m. S.E. from Corte.
+  From this a department road of 4-1/2 m. leads to the hot sulphurous
+  baths of Pietrapola, with a large hotel in a healthy situation.
+
+  From Ghisonaccia a carriage road extends N.W. to the villages of
+  Poggio-di-Nazza, 9-1/2 m., and Lugo-di-Nazza, 11-1/2 m. From Ghisonaccia
+  railway station a forest road extends 18 m. N.W. to Ghisoni, where
+  it joins the high road between Sartene and Vivario (p. 29). The
+  southern prolongation of this road leads to Zicavo, Petreto,
+  Bicchisano, and Portopollo, on the Gulf of Valinco.
+
+Forty-six m. from Bastia is Casabianda. H. Perett; a village situated on
+a well-cultivated estate belonging to the government; formerly used as
+an agricultural penitentiary for juvenile criminals. In the hot season
+it is safer to pass the night at Casabianda than at Aleria.
+
+[Headnote: ALERIA.]
+
+  miles from BONIFACIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{58-1/4}{44-3/4}
+ALERIA. Inn. The capital of Corsica till the invasion of the Saracens in
+the 4th cent., now a poor village with an old Genoese fort, situated at
+the mouth of the Tavignano, 1-1/4 m. from the Etang de Diane. Ancient
+Aleria, the colony founded by the dictator Sulla about 82 B.C., occupied
+both banks of the Tavignano, which waters one of the finest plains in
+the world, where winter is unknown. The site of the town was well
+selected. The population was probably 20,000.
+
+It was at Aleria that Theodore Neuhoff, a native of Altona, in Germany,
+landed to have himself proclaimed King of Corsica, March 1736. He died a
+pauper in London, and was buried in an obscure corner of St. Anne's
+churchyard, Soho. On a mural tablet against the exterior wall, west end,
+is the following epitaph written by Horace Walpole:--"Near this place is
+interred Theodore, King of Corsica, who died in this parish, Dec. 11,
+1756, immediately after leaving the King's Bench prison, by the benefit
+of the Act of Insolvency. In consequence of which, he registered his
+kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors." His capital was
+Cervione. The lake de Diane is a great sheet of salt water with one
+narrow opening to the sea. It formed the harbour of Aleria, and was
+provided with quays, of which a vestige still remains. The lake contains
+an island 460 yards in circumference, composed of oyster shells covered
+with luxurious vegetation. Fish, and a cockle a species of Venerupis,
+inhabit the brackish water of the lake.
+
+ALERIA TO CORTE.
+
+Coach every other day; fare, 5 francs; time, 4 hours.
+
+  Thirty-one and a half m. N.W., by a picturesque road up the
+  course of the Tavignano, passing Cateraggio, 2 m., Rotani, 5 m.,
+  commencement of bridle path leading N. to Tallone, 7-1/2 m., Tox,
+  9-1/2 m., Campo, 11 m., and Moita, 12-1/2 m. Seven m. farther up
+  the main road a ramification extends N. to Giuncaggio, 4-1/2 m.,
+  and to Pancheraccia, 5-1/2 m.
+
+  Up the main road, 21-1/2 m. from Aleria, and near the bridge across
+  the Vecchio, a bridle path strikes off S. to Rospigliani, 5 m., and
+  Vezzani, 6-1/2 m. A little higher a ramification extends 5 m. W. to
+  Serraggio (p. 8). The road, after passing several other ramifications
+  with the Corte and Ajaccio road, arrives at Corte, p. 8.
+
+  Ten m. W. from Aleria are the cold saline sulphurous springs of
+  Puzzichello, 190 ft., considered efficacious in the cure of
+  syphilitic diseases, resembling in this property the water of Aulus
+  in the Pyrenees. See Black's _South France_, West Half (Pyrenees).
+
+[Headnote: PRUNETE.--CERVIONE.--ALESANI.]
+
+  miles from BONIFACIO
+  miles to   BASTIA
+
+{79}{24}
+PRUNETE. _Inn:_ Gaetan. Junction with road to Ponte alla Leccia, 44 m.
+N.W. (p. 9), leading through a region of chestnut trees and past many
+villages on the mountains, built chiefly on terraces. A coach runs from
+the station to Alesani called also Castagneto 1938 ft. 14 m. W.;
+  ascending by Muchieto 808 ft. 3-3/4 m., Cervione 1073 ft. 4-1/2 m., pop.
+  1000; _Inns:_ France: Voyageurs: an untidy village, once the capital
+  of King Theodore's realm. From Cervione the road describes a long
+  detour to the bridge across the Chebbia, whence it ascends to Cotone
+  1008 ft 6-1/4 m., the Col d'Aja 1236 ft., and Ortale 1489 ft., 1-3/4 m.
+  from Alesani. Good red wine is made in the neighbourhood of
+  Cervione. The dirty little village of Castagneto or Alesani is
+  picturesquely situated on the side of a mountain overlooking a
+  valley covered with chestnut trees. The diligence stops at an inn,
+  where bread, eggs and coffee with goats' milk can be had and a
+  comfortable bed. A char-a-banc from this inn to Piedicroce (Orezza)
+  costs 10 frs., time 2-1/2 hours, 11 miles. For Orezza, see p. 34.
+  Passengers from Prunete to Piedicroce or Stazzona should not stop at
+  Cervione but continue the diligence route to Castagneto, whence
+  start next morning. The drive between Castagneto and Piedicroce, 11
+  miles, is by far the most beautiful part of the road. The highest
+  part of the Col d'Arcarotta is a narrow ridge between the valleys of
+  Orezza and Ortia, commanding a charming view. See also p. 35.
+
+{87-1/4}{24-3/4}
+PADULELLA. Four and a quarter miles west by a good road is San Nicolao,
+pop. 600.
+
+[Headnote: STAZZONA.]
+
+{84-1/4}{18-3/4}
+FOLELLI-Orezza station. Junction with road to Piedicroce 14-1/4 m. S.W.;
+  by the course of the Fium'alto, the Chestnut country, and the
+  village of Stazzona, 13-1/4 m. from Folelli, 1/4 m. from and 355 ft.
+  under Piedicroce, and 1 m. from and 200 ft. above the spring of
+  Orezza. The coach from the station stops at Stazzona, pop. 250.
+  _Hotels_: *Paix, Casino. Very fine oleanders in the gardens. On the
+  opposite side of the valley of the Fium'alto is Granajola, with the
+  establishment Manfredi, 2016 ft. above the sea and 220 feet above
+  the spring. The hotel Manfredi has the most select society, is the
+  largest house, and its road from the spring is the least dusty; but
+  as no public coach goes there it is necessary to hire a private
+  conveyance either at Stazzona or Piedicroce, 3 or 4 miles. The
+  charge in all the hotels is 7 frs. per day, not including coffee or
+  tea in the morning. The hotels of Stazzona and the hotel Manfredi
+  are the most convenient for the Spa drinkers; those of Piedicroce
+  are too distant.
+
+[Headnote: OREZZA.]
+
+  The Orezza spring is in the centre of a small terrace in the narrow
+  valley of the Fium'alto, whose steep banks are covered with chestnut
+  trees, and ascended by dusty winding roads. The water is a
+  bicarbonate chalybeate, with an agreeable amount of free carbonic
+  acid gas.
+
+[Headnote: VESCOVATO.]
+
+{89}{14}
+VESCOVATO STATION. Town 1-1/4 m. W., pop. 1500.
+  *H. de Progreso in the large "Place" where all the coaches stop,
+  near a fountain of pure gushing water, cold even in summer. The
+  rather untidy town of Vescovato is almost hidden in the corner of a
+  valley, 550 ft. above the sea, by woods of vigorous olive and
+  chestnut trees. From it a coach starts daily to Porta, 15 m. W., by
+  a bad, dusty, jolting road, passing through Venzolasca, pop. 1300,
+  on the top of a hill, 732 ft., 1-1/2 m. from Vescovato. Three m.
+  farther a road, left, 1 m., leads to Porri, 1718 ft., pop. 300.
+  7-1/2 m. from Vescovato is the Col S. Agostino, and then follow, 8 m.,
+  Silvareccio, 2198 ft., pop. 550; 8-1/2 m., Piano, 2230 ft., pop. 170;
+  Casabianca, 4 m. farther, 2133 ft.; and then Porta, pop. 630; _Inn:_
+  H. Franceschi, in the "Place," opposite the church, where the coach
+  stops. In July and August the coach goes on to Piedicroce.
+
+{91}{12}
+PONT DU GOLO. A little more than 3 miles from the bridge, at the mouth
+of the river, stood the town of Mariana, founded by Marius (B. 155, D.
+86 B.C.), where Seneca most probably spent his exile, and of which there
+remain only a few insignificant fragments on the beach. In the vicinity
+are the ruins of a chapel, and about a mile farther those of the church,
+called La Canonica, with 2 aisles and a nave 100 feet long and 40 wide,
+ornamented with rows of pillars of the Doric order. Both church and
+chapel are in the Pisan style.
+
+At Casamozza Station, 12-1/2 m. S. from Bastia, the Aleria railway joins
+the one from Corte.
+
+{103}
+BASTIA. See p. 10.
+
+
+Ponte alla Leccia to Piedicroce.
+
+  Eighteen miles S.E. by "Courrier" daily. Fare 3 frs. Time 5 hours,
+  by a mountain road, making immense circuits round by the heads of
+  ravines among rich pastures and great chestnut and beech trees.
+
+  Nine miles from the Ponte is Morosaglia, pop. 1060, with an inn,
+  where the coach stops. A conglomeration of hamlets on the slopes of
+  a mountain, one of which, Stretta, was the birthplace of Pascal
+  Paoli. 2 m. farther is the summit of the Col de Prato with an inn,
+  3215 ft., 2850 ft. below, or 3 hours from the top of San Pietro,
+  commanding a magnificent view of the Castagniccia or the Chestnut
+  country, and the islands of Monte Christo, Pianosa, and Elba,
+  floating in the haze between sky and water. See map on fly-leaf.
+
+[Headnote: CASTAGNICCIA.]
+
+  The Castagniccia may be said to lie between the Golo and the
+  Tavignano, bounded on the W. by the railway. The chestnut trees are
+  not so famous for their size as for the qualify of their fruit.
+
+  The coach having passed the hamlet of Campana arrives at
+
+[Headnote: PIEDICROCE.]
+
+  Piedicroce, pop. 600, several inns, 2104 ft., 18 m. from Ponte
+  alla Leccia, and 650 ft. above the spring of Orezza by a winding,
+  dusty, bad wheel road, passing Stazzona 1978 ft. above the sea.
+
+  Although Piedicroce is not a suitable place for those who come to
+  drink the Orezza water, it is an excellent centre for excursions,
+  the favourite one being to the top of Monte S. Pietro 5795 ft. in
+  3 hours, by the cabins of Tajalto 4600 ft., and a beech forest. Mule
+  to nearly the top. Guide and mule, 5 frs. See also above.
+
+  Coach in July and August to the Vescovato station by Porta, p. 34.
+
+
+Piedicroce to Prunete Station, 26 m. S.E.
+
+The continuation of the road from Ponte alla Leccia.
+
+  From Piedicroce the road passes by Pied'Orezza, 2106 ft., 1-3/4 m. from
+  Piedicroce, Piedipartino, 2124 ft., 2 m.; Carcheto, 2172 ft., 3m.;
+  Brustico, 2293 ft. 4 m.; the Col d'Arcarotta, 2698 ft., 5-1/4 m. from
+  Piedicroce, between the richly wooded valleys of the Fium'alto and
+  the Alesani, and commanding a very fine view of both. From this the
+  road gradually descends to Prunete, the most beautiful part being
+  from this Col to Castagneto called also Alesani, where there is an
+  inn and whence a coach starts daily to Prunete Railway Station.
+
+[Headnote: CASTAGNETO.]
+
+  Seven miles from Piedicroce and 2 from the Col is Ortia, 2638 ft.,
+  pop. 400, hidden among chesnut trees; Felce, 2570 ft., 8-3/4 m.,
+  pop. 400; Pied Alesani 11 m.; Querceto, 2041 ft., and Castagneto
+  or Alesani, 1938 ft., 12 m. from Piedicroce and 14 from Prunete
+  Railway Station, the principal village in this valley.
+
+  A little below Castagneto, at the commencement of this chestnut
+  wooded valley is Ortale, 1489 ft., pop. 280. The coach then having
+  passed Cotone 1008 ft., 19-1/4 m., pop. 800, and having crossed the
+  little bridge over the stream Chebbia arrives at Cervione, _Inn_,
+  France: 1073 ft., 21-3/4 m. from Piedicroce, and 4-1/4 from Prunete. From
+  Cervione another coach descends to Prunete Railway Station by
+  Muchieto 820 ft. Prunete consists of a few houses near the beach,
+  resorted to by bathers in summer, situated on the highway between
+  Bastia and Bonifacio. See also p. 33.
+
+
+Solenzara to Sartene,
+
+  46 m. S.W. This forest road, No. 4, ascends the valley of the
+  Solenzara, crosses the great S.E. range at the Col de Bavella,
+  descends into the valley of the Rizzanese, passes through the
+  villages of Zonza, San Gavino, Levie, and Ste. Lucie, and joins the
+  highroad between Ajaccio and Bonifacio at the milestone 76.690
+  (47-3/4 m.) from Ajaccio, 3-3/4 m. from Sartene, and 42 m. from
+  Solenzara.
+
+The road, after passing up by the S. side of the river through olive
+groves and "maquis," arrives at the Col and Maison de Cantonniers de
+Castelluccio, 210 ft., 4 m. from Solenzara. Two m. farther by the Pont
+de Ghiadole, the road crosses the Solenzara by the Calzatojo bridge,
+6 m. from Solenzara, 340 ft., winds upward by the deep gully of the
+Fiumicello, which having crossed by the bridge 7-1/4 m. from Solenzara,
+ascends a steep winding road bordered with great trees to the Maison de
+Cantonniers de Rocchio-Pinzuto, 8-3/4 m., 1060 ft., at the foot of the
+great cliff of that name.
+
+The road still winding upwards passes the immense wall of reddish cliffs
+called the Rochers de Bavella before arriving at the Col de Larone
+10-3/4 m., 2056 ft. The road, still winding, ascends a huge promontory
+between the torrents Fiumicello and S. Pietro, separating into two
+distinct parts the forest of Bavella, and crosses the Pont de Bocintoro,
+1510 ft., 12 m. A little farther, in a wild yet beautiful situation,
+is the Maison de Cantonniers d'Arghiavara. From the Pont 1-1/2 m. is the
+better house, la maison forestiere de l'Alza, commanding superb views,
+situated among great trees and nursery gardens.
+
+The ascent from this is by a steep road, almost impracticable for
+vehicles, through a forest of the stateliest and oldest pines in
+Corsica.
+
+18 m. from Solenzara and 28 from Sartene is the Maison de Cantonniers de
+Bavella, 3885 ft., near the summit of the Col Bavella, 4068 ft. In this
+house of refuge there is generally comfortable accommodation and a
+supply of provisions. The surrounding huts are occupied in July and
+August by people from the plains about Solenzara, who come here to
+escape the fever-producing malaria. The house commands, even from the
+windows, grand views.
+
+On the other side of the Col, 550 ft. below it and 2-1/4 m. from it, is
+the Maison de Cantonniers de Ballatojo, from which the road descends
+amidst great pines mixed with a few oaks and ilexes, in view of the
+Asinao forest and of the lofty granite pinnacled precipices, 10 m. long,
+between Mt. Colva, 4520 ft., and the Point Tintinaja, 6658 ft.
+
+Zonza, good inn, pop. 1040, height 2582 ft., 24-1/4 m. from Solenzara and
+21-3/4 m. from Sartene, hidden among chestnut trees and conveniently
+situated for visiting the forests of Zonza, Asinao, and Bavella.
+
+[Headnote: S. GAVINO.]
+
+3-1/2 m. beyond is San Gavino di Carbini, pop. 770, height 2238 ft., a poor
+miserable village, where there existed in 1365 a sect of socialists,
+with whom even the women and children were held in common, and by whom
+were committed frightful abominations.
+
+[Headnote: LEVIE.]
+
+30 m. from Solenzara and 16 m. from Sartene is Levie, consisting of
+various hamlets. Inn where the coach, running between this and Sartene,
+stops. Pop, 2040, height 2238 ft This village, easily approached, is
+situated among mountains abounding with game. It commands superb views,
+and makes in April a very pleasant residence. In winter it is rather
+cold. On the road between Levie and Santa Lucia di Tallano, 5-1/2 m. from
+the Col d'Aja Vignarsa, 2408 ft., are seen the valley of the Rizzanese
+and the Gulfs of Valinco and Ajaccio. On the grassy table lands of the
+Col d'Aja are many rare flowers, among others a species of red
+gladiolus.
+
+[Headnote: S. LUCIA DI TALLANO.]
+
+5-1/2 m. W. from Levie and 11-1/4 from Sartene is Santa Lucia di Tallano,
+pop. 1300, Inn where the Sartene and Levie coach stops. S. Lucia is built
+in terraces on the hills rising from the Fiumicicoli. Church 14th cent. The
+wines grown in this neighbourhood command good prices in the Corsican
+market.
+
+Below, on the Fiumicicoli, is a hot sulphurous spring. On the way down
+to the river by the sides of the Point Campolaccia, near a place called
+Campolajo, is beautiful hornblende, page 27.
+
+From Santa Lucia the road leads southwards by the Rizzanese to Sartene,
+p. 27.
+
+
+
+
+SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF CORSICA.
+
+It is not known who the original inhabitants of Corsica were. The
+Phocaeans of Ionia were the first civilised people that established
+settlements in Corsica. About the year 560 B.C. they landed on the
+island, and founded at the mouth of the Tavignano the city of Aleria,
+which after a short occupation they were compelled to abandon. After an
+interval of a few years they again returned, rebuilt Aleria, which they
+fortified, and endeavoured to maintain their ground against the natives.
+After a struggle of some years they were again compelled to leave the
+island. The next foreign occupants of Corsica were the Tuscans, who
+founded the city of Nicaea, but they in their turn were compelled to give
+way before the growing maritime power of the Carthaginians, whose
+jurisdiction in the island was unquestioned till the beginning of the
+first Punic War. On that occasion the Romans sent out a fleet, drove the
+Carthaginians from the island, and exacted at least a nominal homage
+from the native population. They did not, however, fully establish their
+power here till about thirty years later, and even then rebellions and
+revolts were of constant occurrence.
+
+[Headnote: ROMAN COLONIES.]
+
+The first step made towards the real subjugation of the island was the
+establishment of the two colonies on its eastern coast-that of Aleria by
+Sulla and that of Mariana by Marius. In the time of the emperors the
+island had fallen into disrepute among the Romans, by whom it was used
+chiefly as a place of banishment for political offenders. One of the
+most distinguished of these sufferers was the younger Seneca, who spent
+in this island eight years of banishment ending with 49 A.D.
+
+[Headnote: ARMS.] On the downfall of the Roman empire in the West,
+Corsica passed into the hands of the Vandals. These barbarians were
+driven out by Belisarius, but after his death, 565 A.D., the resistless
+hordes of Attila once more gained possession of the island. Since that
+period it has successively owned the dominion of the Goths, the
+Saracens, the Pisans and the Genoese. The impress of the last is to be
+found in the style of the church architecture, while the armorial crest
+of the island, a Moor's head, with a band across the brow, dates from
+the expedition of the Saracen king, Sanza Ancisa.
+
+The patroness of Corsica, the "Protectrice de la Corse," is Santa
+Devota; who is also the patron saint of Monaco. The Corsicans often
+style the Virgin Mary simply La Santa; and in their common exclamation
+Santa! Maria is understood.
+
+[Headnote: SAMPIERO.]
+
+Among the most renowned and intrepid patriots in the struggle of the
+Corsicans to free themselves from the Genoese was Sampiero, born of poor
+parents towards the end of the 15th cent, in Dominicacci, one of the
+hamlets which compose Bastelica. His house having been burned down by
+the Genoese, the inhabitants in the 18th cent. constructed a new one on
+the same site, on which Mr. Wyse, an Irishman, affixed a tablet with an
+inscription in 1855, expressing his admiration of the man. After serving
+with great distinction in the armies of the Italian princes and in those
+of Francis I., King of France, Sampiero returned to Corsica in 1547 and
+married the fair Vanina, heiress of Ornano, belonging to one of the
+oldest families in the island.
+
+Shortly after the marriage the Corsicans, led by Sampiero, revolted
+against the tyranny of the Banking Company of St. George of Genoa, and,
+assisted by the French, under General Thermes, overthrew them after six
+years of hard fighting and much bloodshed, in which Sampiero and his
+peasant army bore by far the greatest share. All, however, they had
+gained at such immense sacrifice was completely lost to them by the
+treaty of Chateau Cambresis, 1559, by which France agreed to restore
+Corsica to Genoa. Sampiero and his family had to leave the island. Such
+was the virulent and implacable hatred Sampiero bore to the Genoese,
+that he with his own hand, in cold blood, strangled mercilessly his
+trembling wife three years after (1562) in Marseilles, for having
+allowed herself, in his absence, to be persuaded to make an arrangement
+with the Genoese to save the patrimony of her children. Sampiero escaped
+with impunity, although he buried his murdered wife publicly, and with
+pomp, in the church of St. Francis at Marseilles.
+
+Antonio Francesco, the younger son, who was, when a mere child, with his
+mother when she was murdered, was afterwards assassinated at Rome by a
+Frenchman, whom he had insulted while playing at cards.
+
+On the 12th June 1564 Sampiero landed at the Gulf of Valinco with a band
+of 20 Corsicans and 25 Frenchmen, to make another desperate attempt to
+free Corsica from the hated yoke. After a five years' life-and-death
+struggle, fired by a feverish thirst for revenge, the Corsicans had to
+yield to the might of Genoa, supported by well-drilled Italian, German
+and Spanish mercenaries, commanded by their greatest generals, Doria,
+Centurione and Spinola, and aided by a powerful fleet.
+
+On the 17th January 1567 Sampiero was slain in an ambuscade laid for him
+in the defile of Cauro, into which he had been led by forged letters
+brought him by the monk Ambrosius of Bastelica.
+
+His elder son Alfonso d'Ornano continued the struggle after his father's
+death, till the exhausted state of Corsica compelled him to desist and
+to accept a general amnesty proclaimed by the Genoese governor George
+Doria in 1569. Alfonso d'Ornano was afterwards created "Marechal de
+France."
+
+[Headnote: PASCAL PAOLI.]
+
+From 1755 the Corsicans, led by the brave Pascal Paoli, carried on the
+struggle for their independence against the Genoese, who were
+occasionally assisted by the French. On the 15th May 1768 the former
+sold their presumed claims to the island to the French, who ended this
+war of subjugation by the terrible battle of Ponte Nuovo, 9th May 1769.
+On the llth of June Paoli left Porto-Vecchio for London; where, at the
+instance of the Duke of Grafton, then prime minister of England, he
+received an annual pension of L1200.
+
+After Corsica had been made one of the departments of France he was
+invited in 1790, by the National Assembly, to take the supreme command
+in the island. On his arrival at Paris (3d April 1790), on his way to
+Corsica, he was feted as the Washington of Europe, and Lafayette was
+constantly by his side; while, on his arrival at Marseilles, he was
+received by a deputation, among whom was Napoleon. In July 1790 he
+landed at Macinaggio, on the east side of Cap Corse.
+
+The execution of the king and the cruelties and excesses of the
+Convention having shocked the philanthropic spirit of Paoli and
+alienated his sympathies, he organised a revolt to separate Corsica from
+France, and succeeded by the aid of the English fleet, 20th July 1794,
+when Calvi, the last of the forts, surrendered. On the 10th of June 1794
+the Corsicans declared that they would unite their country to Great
+Britain, but that it was to remain independent, and to be governed by a
+viceroy according to their own constitution.
+
+The English, from ignorance, managed the affairs of the island so badly,
+that when in 1796 Napoleon sent troops against them, they were joined by
+the Corsicans, who together forced the English to leave the island. Not
+only had a certain Gilbert Elliot been named viceroy instead of Paoli,
+but this same man having written to the Government that it was necessary
+for the safety of the English to remove Paoli from the island, George
+III. wrote Paoli a letter inviting him to return to England and to his
+court. It is suspected that Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, president of the
+Council of State, under the short viceroyship of Elliot, influenced, for
+his own ends or from jealousy, the English in Corsica against Paoli.
+
+Paoli lived twelve years more in London, died peacefully on 5th February
+1807 at the age of 82, was buried in St. Pancras churchyard, and a small
+monument to his memory was placed in Westminster Abbey. He bequeathed to
+four professors of the intended Corte University salaries of L50 a year
+each, but as it was never established the money was given to the Ecole
+Paoli in Corte, attended by 120 pupils.
+
+Since the expulsion of the English, the French have remained in
+undisturbed possession of Corsica. The English occupation lasted from
+1794 to 1796.
+
+[Headnote: CHARACTER.]
+
+The Corsicans look to the Government for the improvement of their island
+far more than to their own efforts, for they themselves are neither
+industrious nor enterprising. The roads, railways, bridges and other
+public works are constructed chiefly by Italian labourers. The women do
+the drudgery both in their homes and on the fields, carrying great loads
+on their heads, as the mules do on their backs; but bestow little labour
+on the cleanliness of their children and dwellings, and do not make good
+domestic servants. In many small towns women are the bread bakers and
+assistant butchers. The villages, excepting in Cape Corse, are untidy.
+The use of the bath is almost unknown to young and old, rich and poor.
+
+[Headnote: VENDETTA.]
+
+The tendency to take summary vengeance, called vendetta, still exists in
+the villages; where the people having no social amusements, nothing to
+read, nor any other resource than cards during the winter nights, are
+apt to quarrel over trifles; which, fanned by their local petty
+jealousies, assisted often by the generous nature of their wine, ripen
+into deadly feuds.
+
+[Headnote: OAKS.]
+
+The staple food of the majority of the inhabitants, as well as of the
+horses and mules, during a great part of the year, is the chestnut. For
+domestic purposes it is mostly ground, when it costs only about half the
+price of wheat flour, which is procured chiefly from Marseilles, Corsica
+itself producing very little. The ease with which the harvest of
+chestnuts is annually obtained tends to foster indolence and deaden
+enterprise among the peasantry. The one great danger to which the
+generous chestnut trees are exposed is a conflagration. Besides olives,
+pines, beeches and chestnuts, there are also important forests of
+evergreen oaks, the Quercus Ilex, called also the holm oak. It has
+abundance of dark-green ovate leaves, mostly prickly at the margin; the
+acorns are oblong on short stalks; the stem grows to the height of 80
+ft.; the wood is dark-brown and hard, weighing 70 lbs. the cubic foot,
+while the same of the Quercus ruber or British oak weighs only 55 lbs.,
+and the tree attains a vast age. The cork oak, Quercus suber, grows
+either singly among other trees or in groups, principally in the
+southern parts of the island. The bark is of little commercial
+importance.
+
+[Headnote: AGRICULTURE.]
+
+  The inhabitants do not assist nature. Their seed potatoes are of an
+  inferior class, their fruit trees receive little attention, very few
+  of the vineyards are carefully cultivated, and their sheep, goats
+  and pigs are of poor breeds. Of late years many have taken to the
+  growing of lemons and citrons; which in a good year yield a very
+  handsome profit; but the harvest, through untimely frosts, is
+  precarious. The headquarters of this culture is Cape Corse. The
+  olive trees yield a more secure though less remunerative harvest.
+  That terrible scourge the phylloxera has got among the vineyards,
+  where it is committing its usual havoc.
+
+  The drives and pedestrian excursions about Corsica are superb,
+  especially along the east side and up the centre by Sartene, Zicavo
+  and Ghisoni (p. 27), and the road between Calvi and Ponte alla
+  Leccia (p. 20). There are inns in all the large villages, though the
+  only good and comfortable hotels are in Ajaccio.
+
+[Headnote: FORESTHOUSES.]
+
+  Enterprising tourists wishing to explore the great forests and to
+  scale the mountains should endeavour to procure letters of
+  introduction from the chief forestal authorities at Ajaccio, Corte,
+  Bastia or Calvi to the occupants of the Maisons Forestieres in the
+  forests to be visited. Although the gardes forestieres are generally
+  hospitable, they are afraid to follow their inclination without
+  orders from their superiors. For each day in these houses 7 to 8
+  frs. should be given.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX.
+
+
+AGRICULTURE                                               41
+Aitone forest                                         18, 23
+Ajaccio                                                  3
+  Bankers                                                  3
+  Cab tariff                                               3
+  Cathedral                                                5
+  Climate                                                  6
+  Curiosities                                              6
+  Drives                                                   3
+  Episcopal chapel                                         3
+  Excursions                                               5
+  Fountains                                                6
+  Hotels                                                   3
+  Library                                                  5
+  Memorial chapel                                          5
+  Mission                                                  3
+  Napoleon                                                 4
+  Picture gallery                                          5
+  Pozzo di Borgo                                           4
+  St. Pancras                                              6
+  Sepulchral chapels                                       6
+  Steamers                                                 2
+  Water-carriers                                           6
+Ajaccio to Bastia                                          7
+---- to Corte                                              7
+---- to Sartene                                           23
+---- to Vico and Evisa                                    22
+Albertacce                                                19
+Albuccia point                                            28
+Aleria                                                    32
+---- to Corte                                             33
+---- to Puzzichello                                       33
+Alesani                                               33, 35
+Algajola                                                  15
+Amphibole                                                 27
+Apa                                                       24
+---- to Zicavo                                            24
+Appietto                                                  22
+Arcarotta col                                         33, 35
+Asco                                                  19, 20
+Aullene                                                   27
+
+BALAGNA VALLEY                                            20
+Balogna                                                   23
+Baracci baths                                             26
+Barcaggio                                                 14
+Bastelica                                                 24
+Bastia                                                    10
+---- to Calvi                                             14
+---- to Cap Corse                                         11
+---- rail to Aleria                                       34
+Baths of Baracci                                          26
+---- of Caldaniccia                                        6
+---- of Guagno                                            23
+---- of Guitera                                           25
+---- of Orezza                                            34
+---- of Pietrapola                                    28, 32
+---- of Puzzichello                                       33
+Bavella col                                       26, 31, 36
+Belgodere                                                 21
+---- to Olmi-Capella                                      21
+---- to Tartagine forest                                  21
+Bettianella lake                                           9
+Bevinco                                                   10
+Bianca bocca                                              22
+Bicchisano                                                26
+Biguglia lake                                             10
+Bocca Melza                                               16
+Bocognano                                                  7
+Bonifacio                                               30
+  Caves                                                   31
+  Charles V.                                              30
+  Napoleon                                                30
+Bonifacio to Bastia                                       31
+Borgo                                                     10
+Botticella                                                14
+Brando cave                                           10, 12
+Brustico                                                  35
+
+CALACUCCIA                                                19
+Calasima                                                  19
+Calcatoggio                                               17
+Caldanella                                                17
+Caldaniccia                                                6
+Calenzana                                                 22
+Calenzana                                                 15
+Calvi                                                     15
+---- to Ajaccio                                           16
+---- to Bastia                                            20
+Campo                                                     25
+Cap Corse                                                 11
+Capella mount                                             27
+Capronale col                                             16
+Cargese                                                   17
+Cargiaca                                                  27
+Carrosaccia                                                6
+Casabianca                                                34
+Casabianda                                                32
+Casamaccioli                                              19
+Casamozza                                                 34
+Cassalabriva                                              26
+Castagneto                                            33, 35
+Castagniccia                                              35
+Castellaccio col                                          16
+Castello punta                                            24
+Castiglione                                               20
+Cauro                                                     23
+---- to Bastelica                                         24
+Celaccia col                                              26
+Cervione                                              33, 35
+Character                                                 40
+Chestnut trees                                         1, 41
+Chidazzo                                                  18
+Cineraggia mount                                          21
+  bocca                                                   22
+Cinto mount                                        1, 19, 20
+Climate                                                    2
+Coast lakes                                       10, 31, 32
+Corona mount                                          19, 21
+Corsican arms                                             38
+---- character                                            40
+---- dimensions                                            1
+---- patroness                                            38
+Corscia                                                   19
+Corte                                                      8
+---- to Aleria                                             8
+---- to Mt. Rotondo                                        8
+Coscione mount                                            25
+Cotone                                                33, 35
+Cozzano                                                   27
+Cristinacce                                               17
+Cuculla mount                                             18
+
+DENTE CAPO                                                21
+Diana lake                                                32
+Dominicacci                                               24
+Don Giovanni mount                                        27
+
+ELSE VALLEY                                               24
+Erbajo col                                             8, 16
+Erbalunga                                                 12
+Ersa                                                      14
+Escutcheon                                                38
+Evergreen oaks                                            41
+Evisa                                                 18, 23
+---- to Albertacce                                        18
+
+FELCE                                                     35
+Feliceto                                              21, 22
+Fium Orbo source                                          28
+Folelli                                                   33
+---- to Piedicroce                                        33
+Francardo bridge                                       9, 20
+Frasseto                                              24, 25
+
+GALERIA                                                   16
+---- to forests of Filosorma                              16
+Ghisonaccia                                               32
+---- to Ghisoni                                           29
+Ghisoni                                                   29
+---- to Ghisonaccia                                       29
+Giraglia island                                           14
+Golo source                                               19
+Gozzi mount                                               22
+Granace col                                               25
+Grosso mount                                              21
+Guagno baths                                              23
+Guitera baths                                             25
+
+HISTORY                                                   37
+Houses of shelter 41. See also under "Maison."
+
+ILE ROUSSE                                                15
+Incudine mount                                            25
+Inzecca                                                   29
+Isolaccio                                                 28
+
+KYRIE ELEISON                                             28
+
+LACCIOLA COL                                              17
+La Piana                                                  17
+Larone col                                            26, 36
+Lavatoggio                                                21
+Leone coronato                                            30
+Levie                                             26, 32, 37
+Lonca valley                                              16
+Lozzi                                                     19
+Lugo                                                       8
+Lugo di Nazza                                             32
+Lumio                                                     15
+Luri                                                      12
+
+MACINAGGIO                                            13, 39
+Maddalena isle                                            25
+Maison Aitone                                             18
+---- Alza                                                 36
+---- Arghiavara                                           36
+---- Ballatojo                                            36
+---- Bavella                                              36
+---- Canareccia                                           28
+---- Castellaccio                                         18
+---- Castelluccio                                         36
+---- Ghiraldino                                           28
+---- Marmano                                              28
+---- Ometa                                                16
+---- Popaja                                               19
+---- Rocchio-Pinzuto                                      36
+---- S. Antoine                                           28
+---- Sciattarina                                          18
+---- Scrivano                                             28
+---- Tagnone                                              18
+---- Zipitoli                                             24
+Manganella col                                             9
+Mariana                                                   34
+Marmano forest                                            28
+Menta col                                                 24
+Moltifao                                                  20
+Moor's head                                               38
+Morosaglia                                                35
+Morsaglia                                                 14
+Mouflon                                                    2
+Muchieto                                              33, 35
+
+NAPOLEON                                           4, 26, 30
+Nelson                                                    26
+Nino lake                                                 19
+Niolo                                                     19
+Nonza                                                 12, 14
+
+OLIVESE                                                   27
+Olive trees                                               20
+Olmeto                                                    26
+Olmi-Capella                                              21
+Ometa ilex forest                                         16
+Oninanda col                                              20
+Orezza spa                                                34
+Oro mount                                                  1
+Ortale                                                33, 35
+
+PADRO MOUNT                                            1, 21
+Padulella                                                 33
+Pagliorba mount                                            1
+Palasca                                                   22
+Palneca                                                   28
+Pancheraccia                                              33
+Paoli                                                     39
+Patron Saint                                              38
+Pecorile                                                  14
+Perticato forest                                          16
+Pertusato mount                                           31
+Petrella col                                              19
+Piano                                                     34
+Piedicroce                                         34, 9, 35
+---- to Prunete                                           35
+Pietrapola baths                                      28, 32
+Pines                                                      7
+Pino                                                  12, 14
+Pinus Laricio                                              7
+Pinus Pinaster                                             7
+Poggio di Nazza                                           32
+Pont Diable                                               20
+Pont du Golo                                              34
+Ponte alla Leccia                                      9, 22
+---- to Calvi                                             20
+---- to Piedicroce                                        34
+Ponteniello forest                                        24
+Ponte Novo                                             9, 22
+Popolasca                                                 20
+Porri                                                     34
+Porta                                                     34
+Porto                                                     16
+---- to Evisa                                             18
+---- to Ponte Francardo                                   18
+Portopollo                                                32
+Porto-Vecchio                                             31
+Prato col                                                 35
+Propriano                                                 26
+---- to Solenzara                                         26
+Prunelli source                                           28
+Prunete                                               33, 35
+---- to Alesani                                           33
+
+QUERCUS ILEX                                              41
+
+RAPARA COL                                                28
+Renoso mount                                           7, 24
+Retto mount                                               19
+Rogliano                                                  13
+Rotondo mount                                           1, 8
+
+SAGONA                                                17, 23
+---- to Aitone forest                                     17
+---- to Vico                                              23
+St. Antoine col                                           23
+---- Bernardino col                                       14
+---- Colombano col                                        22
+---- Devota                                               38
+---- Florent                                              14
+---- Georges col                                          24
+---- Gavino di Carbini                                    37
+---- Lucia di Tallano                         26, 27, 32, 37
+---- Lucie col                                            12
+---- Maria Siche                                          24
+---- Nicolao                                              33
+---- Pietro mount                                         35
+---- Sebastien col                                        22
+---- Severa                                               12
+Salario fountain                                           6
+Sampiero                                              24, 38
+Sartene                                                   27
+---- to Bonifacio                                         30
+---- to Vivario                                           27
+Scala di Santa Regina                                     10
+Scozzolatojo col                                          29
+Scrivano col                                              28
+Sea-urchins                                               22
+Sebastien col                                             17
+Seneca's tower                                            12
+Serra col                                                 14
+Serraggio                                              8, 33
+Sevi col                                                  17
+Silvareccio                                               34
+Solenzara                                                 31
+---- to Sartene                                           36
+---- to Zonza                                             31
+Sollacaro                                                 26
+Sorba col                                                 29
+Speloncato                                                21
+Spelunca                                                  18
+Sposata                                                   25
+Stazzona                                                  34
+Steamers                                           2, 10, 11
+Stretta                                                   35
+
+TACA FOREST                                               27
+Tafonato mount                                        16, 18
+Taravo source                                             28
+Tartagine forest                                          21
+Teghime col                                               14
+Theodore Neuhoff                                          32
+Torre all'Osse                                            12
+Traunato mount                                            20
+Treccio ilex forest                                       16
+
+UCCIANI BRIDGE                                             7
+Uomo di Cagna                                             30
+
+VADINA                                                     8
+Valdoniello forest                                    18, 23
+Vanina                                                25, 38
+Vecchio source                                            28
+Vendetta                                                  40
+Venzolasca                                                34
+Verde col                                                 28
+Verde forest                                              28
+Vergio col                                                18
+Vescovato                                                 34
+---- to Porta                                             34
+Vico                                                      23
+Ville                                                     21
+Vivario                                                8, 29
+---- to Pietrapola                                         8
+---- to Sartene                                           27
+Vizzavona                                                  7
+
+WINES                                                  2, 11
+Wyse, W.,                                                 24
+
+ZECAVO                                                    25
+Zicavo                                            25, 27, 28
+Zonza                                             26, 31, 36
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Errors and Uncertainties noted by Transcriber
+
+When the Index and body text disagreed on spelling, the form shown in
+the General Map was used. The abbreviation "ft" has been regularized to
+"ft." where full stop was missing or invisible.
+
+_Inconsistencies (as alphabetized in Index, where applicable)_
+
+Between the 51st and 53d kilometre stones
+60 kilometres-stone,
+  _inconsistency in original_
+Calenzana (pg 15)
+  _Index entry reads "Calenzani", but body text has "Calenzana"; it
+  appears to refer to the same place as the earlier Index entry
+  "Calenzana"_
+Granace (col)
+  _body text "Garanace", Index "Garance", Map "Granace". The Map's
+  spelling was used because it can be found in modern sources._
+PONTE NOVO. The site of the disastrous battle ...
+The Ponte Nuovo is distinctly ...
+... the terrible battle of Ponte Nuovo ...
+[Index] Ponte Novo  9, 22
+  _the General Map and the town description (p. 9) use the "Novo"
+  spelling; other references (p. 22, 39) use "Nuovo". The Index as
+  printed had parallel entries for each spelling, omitting p. 39_
+Col St. Sebastien [text and Index]
+Col Sebastien [text and Index]
+  _variant forms of same name_
+Zicavo ... 2385 ft.
+Zicavo, 2445 ft.
+  _same place: map has 2345 ft._
+
+_Errors_
+
+[Contents]
+Ajaccio to Sartene
+  _text reads "Sartene"_
+Portotorres, at the north-west extremity of Sicily
+  _error for Sardinia_
+and other 2-1/2 m. the village of Levie
+  _error for "and another"?_
+S. Lucia de Tallano, on the highroad to Aullene
+  _text reads "Lucie"_
+Ortia, 2638 ft., pop. 400, hidden among chestnut trees
+  _text reads "chesnut trees"_
+From 1755 the Corsicans, led by the brave Pascal Paoli
+  _text reads "Corscians"_
+Quercus Ilex
+  _text and Index: should be "Quercus ilex"_
+[Index]
+(Ajaccio) to Corte
+  _page reference missing from text_
+  _may be intentional: Corte is on Ajaccio-Bastia itinerary_
+Corscia
+  _not an error here: "Corscia" is the name of a village_
+Levie
+  _text has "Levie   37, 32" only_
+
+
+
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