The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 245
xplained to his mother that the chestnut is a very importantarticle of food among the Italian peasantry, and a failure or shrinkagein the crop is a serious matter in many parts of the country. 224 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. In many places the road wound through a forest so dense that… … FRESCOS EXECUTED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF RAPHAEL. TREE-CULTURE IN ITALY. 225 that Milton found the ground covered with leaves, and was led tomake the famous comparison in the lines which have been quoted. Thebirds were singing in the trees, and the rocks at the side of the roadwere covered with…
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