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more frequented than formerly, this has long been a 

 favourite winter resort. But I pass on to Mentone, which 

 already contained a large English colony on either side of 

 the town, in the numerous hotels and j)ensio7is whicli had 

 sprung up on the eastern and western bay, and wns resor- 

 ted to by our countrymen to the number of from six to 

 seven hundred ; while farther on, Bordighera and San 

 Eemo were beginning to attract attention, each with its 

 single hotel generally crowded. Here we have a con- 

 viction suddenly awakened in the minds of the English 

 nation, that the climate of the Cornice offers advantages 

 for winter resort which are not to be neglected. But we 

 will not only contrast with the former absolute ignorance 

 of that overlooked district its sudden growth in British 

 favour and popularity, five years back ; let us compare 

 the present position of its chief places of resort, and we 

 shall find that they have, one and all, continued to in- 

 crease with unprecedented rapidity, and are now thronged 

 by a very considerable British population. Thus I am 

 informed by trustworthy friends, who passed last winter n 

 those districts, that, as nearly as could be ascertained, the 

 Eno'lish at Cannes amounted to about one thousand ; at 

 Nice, to about two thousand ; and at Mentone, to about 

 eighteen hundred; while the smaller colonies at Hyeres, 

 Bordighera, and San Eemo, are proportionally increased. 

 These facts and figures outweigh all argument, and with 

 such statistics we can only marvel at the remarkable 

 development of regular periodical migration in our country- 

 men, which must have been in abeyance and lying dor- 

 mant in their system for a long period ; but now, when 

 opportunity has arisen, has burst forth with an uncontrol- 



