ALASSIO 
GEOGRA.PHICAL POSITION - CLIMATE - 
PUBLIC HEALTH 
The author of the following short ac- 
count of Alassio hopes that the fact of his 
being a native of the place, will not cause 
his readers to be mistrustful of what he 
tells them about it. 
Though prepared to admit that one is 
prone to think too well of his own birth- 
place, the author hopes that, fond as he 
is of his native Alassio, he will not be 
deemed to make any excessive claims on 
her behalf, for this reason at least, if for 
no better one, that he is about to speak 
of positive facts, which, if untrue might 
