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collected in receptacles to allow of the subsidence of residue which is used 

 as a manure, at others it is discharged directly into the streams. 



The olive oil of San Remo is of excellent quality and commands a 

 good price in the market. The olive crop is not so profitable as that of 

 lemons and oranges, yet should the trees he once destroyed it would take 

 generations to replace them; moreover, they are usually planted so as to 

 allow of the cultivation, especially in the valleys, of various other trees, 

 including the vine, orange, and lemon. At San Remo the olive trees are 

 large and lofty, many of them very ancient and thickly planted, and 

 extending from the verge of the sea, through the valleys and up the sides 

 of the protecting hills for miles, to an elevation in some cases of nearly 

 two thousand feet, giving the hills and valleys their soft dark-green and 

 silvery vegetation. 



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