MR. FORESTER'S TOUR IN SARDINIA AND CORSICA. 



Now ready, in One Volume, imperial 8vo. price 28s. cloth, 



RAMBLES IN THE ISLANDS 



OF 



CORSICA AND SARDINIA: 



WITH NOTICES OF THEIR HI8TOBY, ANTIQUITIES, AND PRESENT CONDITION. BY 



THOMAS FORESTER, adthob of ifORWAr m 184S and 1849, &c. with 



39 WOOD-ENORAVINQ8 AND 8 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURS AND TINTS 



FROM SKETCHES HADE DURING THE TOUR BY LIEUT.-COL. 



BIDDULPH, ROYAL ARTILLERY ; AND A COLOURED 



MAP OF THK TWO ISLANDS. 



IN COLOURS. 

 Map of Corsica and S:ir'linia 

 Ajaccio 



Brsa, Capo Corso 

 Corte 

 Virario 

 Bonifacio 



Vatler of the Liscia 

 Th« Limbara 

 Plain ofOr-ieri 



ON ^V^)OD. 

 Coi-xicn. 

 Marseilles 

 Islets off Marseilles 

 Chftteau-d'lr 



Marseilles, from the Chateau d'lf 

 French Coast, off Ciotat 



'^isT OF THE Illustrations. 



Off Toulon I 



II Torre di Seneca 



Isle of Monte-Cristo ' 



Meeting of Mountains and Plain near 



Bastia 

 Olmeta 



Isle of Monte-Cristo, through a Gorge 

 Between Otmeto and fiigorno 

 Ponte Mnrato 



Capo Corso, from Chestnut WoDda 

 Near Bigorno 

 Citadel of Corte 

 PinuB Maritima 

 Pinus Lariccio 

 Cone of the Piiius Lariccio 

 Bark of the Pinus Lariccio 

 Bo 



Bonifacio, on the Sea-side 

 Outline of Sardinia, from Bonifacio 

 Cares under Boniracio 

 Bonifacio, from the Convent in th 

 Valley 



Sardiniii. 

 Looking back on Corsica 

 A Salvator Rosa Scene 

 Descent to the Campidano 

 The Campidano 

 Eiterior of a Xuraghe 

 Entrance to a Nuraghe 

 Interior of a Nuraghe 

 Sepoltura de Is Gigantes (2) 

 Sardo- Roman Coin 

 ('arthaginian Coin 

 Saracen Coin 

 Porto-Torres. 



Opinions of the Press. 



" Mr. Forester's Rambles are very 

 amusing, and convey a good deal of in- 

 formation respecting: the history, antiquities, 

 and present condition of the islands,— infor- 

 mation which the reader could not easily find 

 elsewhere in so readable a form." 



LiTERARV Gazette. 



" Accompanied by a military friencl, 

 witli a ready pencil, Mr. Forester tra- 

 versed the two islands, Corsica and Sardinia, 

 from north to south, from Cape Corso to 

 Cag'liari, Thus his view is panoramic, and 

 includes tlie graduated zones of the insular 

 region, the city, the plain, the mountains, the 

 valley full of wild olives, and the cork-tree 

 forests where the glades are brightened with 

 Tintoretto lights in the midst of Salvator Rosa 

 shadows,— the two islands furnishing promi- 

 nent contrasts in scenery, climate, geological 

 formation ami veKCtablo growth, but tx)tli in the 

 frame of I lie Tuscan Sea, [rlowinj; with exuberant 

 Iteauty. Mr. Forester's first impressions of the 



interior amounted to fa.scination Many such 



veHtiKea remain aw will Ije remarkeil by those who 

 take in hand Mr. Forester's oiiterlainins; story of 

 Rambles in the islands of the Tuscan Sea." 



Athkk.bum. 



" The easy yet graphic versatility of 

 observation with wliich interesting places 

 or reninrVal)1e events are notice<l, affords t;(X)il proof 

 of t>— .......;.... yet instructive spirit wliieli per- 



coliit One excellent feature in Mr. 



For is that he describes with minute- 



ness : 1 , though supposed to be knoNWa to 



cverylioily, urr Iroin that very supposition in- 

 vestiiwted by few. Perhaps the rarity of Corsic;m 

 travellers renders the task easy in tliis case, where 

 the smallest topic is a novelty ; but we confess to 

 much admiration of the discretion evinced by our 

 a\ithor, who, with everj- care to describe with 



accuracy, thoroughly informs yet never 



bores We might select largely from 



this volume, since it yields abundant material to the 

 romantic adventurer, the antiquarian, tlin'man of 

 science, and the artist. Were Mr. Forest', rs book 

 tobejudgedof only by its able discussion of the con- 

 nexion between aboriginal races and these islands, 

 it would assume a very high position in literature ; 

 but after a penisal of its contents, .ind an examina- 

 tion of its artistic illustrations, we feel assured that 

 as a history or descriptive sketch of lands hitherto 

 but partially known, whereof the customs have been 

 almost wholly unnoticed, these 72<n«'//cs will awaken 

 general interest, and their publication be attcndcil 

 with import-ant national results." John Bull. 



" Mr. Forester's book is in all res- 

 pects new ; the brilliant lithographs bring 



new landscapes before our t'ves, and nt-w glimpses arc 

 opened by each of the hundred little pcncillings which 

 break, like islands, the broad fl>w of the narrative. The 

 tour was commenced at Caps Corsu, the northern point of 

 the island, and thence Mr. Forester penetrated theinteiior 

 with a companion, on mule, or on foot, visiting the 

 mountain hamlets, chatlini.' with the peasantry, collectini; 

 anecdotes of Napoleon and Paoli, of brigandage ami 

 vendetta, and gathering the materials of a n.'irrative more 

 fresh and agreeable tlian has lately come before us. Almost 

 the entire island is described at once in a style vivid and 

 simple, and the illustrations of manners and customs 

 which fell under Mr. Forester's nbsrrvations were in all 

 respecta of a singularly curious character, so completely 

 have the Corsicans retained their traditions. In Sardinia', 

 though the ground is not so untrodden, .Mr. Forester was 

 enabled by his jiractice of striking into the seclusions of 

 the country, beyond the limits of onlinary Ir.ivel, to 

 possess himself of much rcmarkabi. :. espe- 



cially in connexion witli the revival r> and 



lites among the people — a t-irrum ■ ^ been 



Sarticutarly noticed in France. Oci inlands, 



_lr. Forester interweaves his narr,iti%c ^pinn^'ly and 

 judiciously with fragments of history, which have nowhrre 

 the character of digressions. He has related a few htcal 

 stories which cast much light on the social life of the 



Corsicans especially A volume of travel so original 



and varied as Mr. Forester's is a rarity in our days." 



Lkader. 



London : LONGMAN, BEOWN, and CO., Paternoster Eow. 



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