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Title: Our Italy

Author: Charles Dudley Warner

Release Date: April 5, 2009 [EBook #28506]

Language: English

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[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