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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Italy, by Charles Dudley Warner 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.net Title: Our Italy Author: Charles Dudley Warner Release Date: April 5, 2009 [EBook #28506] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR ITALY *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) [Illustration: SANTA BARBARA.] OUR ITALY BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER _Author of Their Pilgrimage, Studies in the South and West, A Little Journey in the World ... With Many Illustrations_ [Illustration] _NEW YORK_ _HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE_ Copyright, 1891, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. HOW OUR ITALY IS MADE 1 II. OUR CLIMATIC AND COMMERCIAL MEDITERRANEAN 10 III. EARLY VICISSITUDES.--PRODUCTIONS.--SANITARY CLIMATE 24 IV. THE WINTER OF OUR CONTENT 42 V. HEALTH AND LONGEVITY 52 VI. IS RESIDENCE HERE AGREEABLE? 65 VII. THE WINTER ON THE COAST 72 VIII. THE GENERAL OUTLOOK.--LAND AND PRICES 90 IX. THE ADVANTAGES OF IRRIGATION 99 X. THE CHANCE FOR LABORERS AND SMALL FARMERS 107 XI. SOME DETAILS OF THE WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT 114 XII. HOW THE FRUIT PERILS WERE MET.--FURTHER DETAILS OF LOCALITIES 128 XIII. THE ADVANCE OF CULTIVATION SOUTHWARD 140 XIV. A LAND OF AGREEABLE HOMES 146 XV. SOME WONDERS BY THE WAY.--YOSEMITE.--MARIPOSA TREES.--MONTEREY 148 XVI. FASCINATIONS OF THE DESERT.--THE LAGUNA PUEBLO 163 XVII. THE HEART OF THE DESERT
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