MR. FORESTER'S TOUR IN SARDINIA AND CORSICA. 
Now ready, in One Yolume, imperial 8vo. price 28s. cloth, 
RAMBLES IN THE ISLANDS 
OF 
CORSICA AND SARDINIA : 
WITH NOTICES OP THEIR HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES, AND PRESENT CONDITION, BY 
THOMAS FORESTER, author op Norway in 1848 and 1849, &c. with 
39 WOOD-ENGRAVINGS AND 8 ILLUSTRATIONS IN colours AND TINTS 
PROM SKETCHES MADE DURING THE TOUR BY LIEUT.-COL. 
BIDDULPH, ROYAL ARTILLERY; AND A COLOURED 
MAP OP THE TWO ISLANDS. 
IN COLOURS. 
Map of Corsica and Sardinia 
Ajaccio 
Ersa, Capo Corso 
Coite 
Vivavio 
Bonifacio 
Valley of the Liscia 
The Limbara 
Plain of Ozieri 
ON WOOD. 
Corsica. 
Marseilles 
Islets of Marseilles. 
Chateau-d'If 
Marseilles, from the Chateau-d'If 
French Coast, off Ciotat 
List of the Illustrations. 
Off Toulon 
II Torre di Seneca 
Isle of Monte Cristo 
Meeting of Mountains and Plain near 
Bastia 
Olmeta 
Isle of Monte Cristo, through a Gorge 
Between Olmeto and Bigorno 
Ponte Murato 
Capo Corso, from Chestnut Woods 
Near Bigorno 
Citadel of Corte 
Pinus Maritima 
Pinus Lariccio 
Cone of the Pinus Lariccio 
Bark of the Pinus Lariccio 
Bocagnono 
Harbour of Ajaccio 
Bonifacio, on the Sea-side 
Outline of Sardinia, from Bonifacio 
Caves under Bonifacio 
Bonifacio, from the Convent in the 
Valley 
Sardinia. 
Looking back on Corsica 
A Salvator Rosa Scene 
Descent to the Campidano 
The Campidano 
Exterior of a Nuraghe 
Entrance to a Nuraghe 
Interior of a Nuraghe 
Sepoltura de Is Gigantes (2) 
Sardo-Roman Coin 
Carthaginian 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." 
Literary Gazette. 
" Accompanied by a military friend, 
with, a ready pencil, Mr. Forester tra- 
versed the two islands, Corsica and Sardinia, 
from north to south, from Cape Corso to 
Cagliari. Thus his view is panoramic, and 
includes the 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 and vegetable growth, but both in the 
frame of the Tuscan Sea, glowing with exuberant 
beauty. Mr. Forester's first impressions of the 
interior amounted to fascination Many such 
vestiges remain, as will be remarked by those who 
take in hand Mr. Forester's entertaining story of 
Rambles in the islands of the Tuscan Sea." 
Athenjetjm. 
" The easy yet graphic versatility of 
observation with which interesting places 
or remarkable events are noticed, affords good proof 
of the amusing yet instructive spirit which per- 
colates the work. One excellent feature in Mr. 
Forester's writing is that he describes with minute- 
ness points which, though supposed to be known 
to everybody, are from that very supposition in- 
vestigated by few. Perhaps the rarity of Corsican 
travellers renders the task easy in this case, where 
the smallest topic is a novelty; but we confess to 
much admiration of the discretion evinced by our 
author, who, with every 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, the man of 
science, and the artist. Were Mr. Forester's book 
to be judged of 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 perusal of its contents, and 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 Rwmbles will awaken 
general interest, and their publication be attended 
with important national results." John Bull. 
" Mr. Forester's book is in all re- 
spects new ; the brilliant lithographs bring 
new landscapes before our eyes, and new glimpses are 
opened by each of the hundred little pencillings which 
break, like islands, the broad flow of the narrative. The 
tour was commenced at Cape Corso, the northern point of 
the island, and ther>ce Mr. Forester penetrated the interior 
with a companion, on mule, or on foot, visiting the 
mountain hamlets, chatting with the peasantry, collecting 
anecdotes of Napoleon and Paoli, of brigandage and 
vendetta, and gathering the materials of a narrative more 
fresh and agreeable than 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 observations were in all 
respects 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 practice of striking into the seclusions of 
the country, beyond the limits of ordinary travel, to 
possess himself of much remarkable information, espe- 
cially in connexion with the revival of pagan manners and 
rites among the people — a circumstance which has been 
particularly noticed in France. Concerning both islands, 
Mr. Forester interweaves his narrative sparingly and 
judiciously with fragments of history , which have nowhere 
the character of digressions. He has related a few local 
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." 
Leader. 
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