Excerpt from The Forgotten Isles: Impressions of Travel in the Balearic Isles, Corsica and Sardinia
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Excerpt from The Forgotten Isles: Impressions of Travel in the Balearic Isles, Corsica and Sardinia
In Corsica, the impression is diflerent. In the immensity of its forests, the Isolitary traveller still hears the lamenti 0f generations and shivers with the pity of death, or crosses the moor in peril of rohhers; and, in the cloud-swept solitude of the heights, seats himself at the humole hearth of soothsaying shepherds, poets of the peahs, who recite Tasso and Ariosto to the accompaniment of.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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