Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-08-04
Our Foreign Core, poudcnce.

Route from Nice 10 Genoa.

IpHtt ~ ONt wee 10 OcnO0.
GENOA, July 6, 1854
To n, Editor IF the Free Press
In few minutes after we saw the records Of the
great Corsican, we passed the frontier and were in
Italy, Nice (itaian Nizra) being the frontier town
of The puchy OF Piedmont. 1t is one of the towns
which have been SO much visited by nvalids and
their families, one of the watering places of the
North shore Of the Mediterranean The old town is
like the other horrd d towns which are scattered
through Trance and Italy, narrow, dirty dingy and
disasreeable but the new part is open wide, airy,
and beautiful. The court-yards and fields covered
with flowers, and sweet with every variety of plea
SAINT perfume
The etrcams of water as we passed along through
II this region but rirn,ots tina, Won could stew
over, but those little strcamlets wind their sunny
way through wide pebbly channels that are spanncd
by large bridges sometimes of many arches. These
streams fed from the Lgurian and Maritime
Alps, from the bases of which they issue, and
comparatively light rain .wclls them to bosterous
torrents, which again, after few days, leave the
channels dry and dusty The effect is strange to
the eye thus to wide rivers apparently dried up.
This little ril of fresh water you however near
the towns, lined both sides with all the washer-
women OF the vicinity, kncclng at the brink and
resting their little wash boards on stones and busy
at their humble trade and all the stony bed of the
stream covered in little patches with the linen spread
to bleach in the sun. We saw, | should think some
times, hundred women and girls thus at work to-
gether With their climate, they need no fire in
their houses, and of course use no hot water for
washing, while tho rapid run of the stream changes
the water often that their work IL performed with
comparatively little labor.
The dc-walks of Nice presen. an appearance
which quite pretty to look upon-that is in the
old part of the town. They paved with the peb-
bles from the beach of the Mediterranean, Of two
coors, white and blush grey, set in mosaic STYLE in
various combinations of the regular geonetrcal
figures. But while the effect is agreeable enough to
the eye, it cannot be pleasant the feet of those
who wear light slippers 60 barefoot. However,
here, Us in France, the barefooted peasantry wear
wooden shoes, as Sir Terence o'shaughnessy or
other tauriferous membsr of the Irish Parlia.
ment said.
Nice is celebrated in small way, for the neatnes.
with which the various kinds Of wood produced there
are wrought into fancy articles. 1t has its theatre
and opera, and public walks and its garrison of sol
diers, and has on some hours of the day and even.
ing, much appearance of life and activity. We here
saw drunken man for the first time since we had
left New York. Rag, filth, and beggars abound.
As stood waiting at the hotel for the diligence to
start beggar that looked able bodied and healthy
asked me for something. was silent She tried
me 'ior the love of God" "for the holy Virgin"
and finally with doubtful aud reflective look Mt
my beard, "for the love Of father Abraham" |
should be sorry to decline any proper demands back
ed by such appeals, but did not melt There are
drives and views and all that in the ncighborhooG
as learn. 1t is so with all Italian cities but |
did not go tosco them, but went oyfully ON my way
to Genoa, along that remarkable route, long known
tho cornice road, formin; sort Of eornce II the
highland brow Of that shore
That road, soon after leaving Nice, by devious
and winding course among the little spurs of the
Ligurian ALPS, finds its romantic way to their tops,
and then goes from cif to cliff, round this gorge
and over that chasm. viaducts and bridges and
along preci?ices Of uncaculatcd depths, all those
stony mountains being terracod up with stone walls
and covered with the vine and the olive up To the
line If vegetation. Here and there mountain vii.
laSe solitary and lonely, is planted among their
Businesses, and now and then the torrent that had
for ages the rock Of its ragged and prccipitous
bed has left at the bottom its periodical deposte till
there has grown oasis of the fire. shest green that
the eye rest upon. The road itself was smooth
and beautiful, and its usually was round two
very long sides of triangle, in complete lig-Iag,
so as to preserve toleraby level track On our
right, and close to us, the Mediterranean, With
its towers Of the middle ages scattered all aons the
shore, built there little agant the Af
corsairs, and in ruins and its here nd there
the bay, and the sail, and the tower and the chasm
and the cliff, and the terrace Of tho vine and her
olive, and the rugged and alpine SUBMITS, and the
green fields at their bases shut in and shut out
now revealed and now concealed now in one form
and combination of beauty, and wilduess and sub.
luiity aud in another till W. are almos, dizzy
with the mere ntohi cation of beatty aud novelty.
Here among these little mountains is the little
monarchy of Monaco, the smallest monarchy in
the world containing about 5000 subjects, Monarco
Lies at our teet g. al, Lg the hills, and at one
little settlement By tire wa, there wa so M ch show
of authority a. to t0lo dovn our Trunks hom the
diligence and 70 pref nd to be about o. .ca- il Gus
ton-housicall, hut rhi, was OILY tuat tnr right
may not re lost BY a"n-usrr Nothing wa actually
done, aud money demanded. The Prince Of Mo-
naeo has his palace at Monaco. Painting, and gid
ing, and throne-room, and guard-room, and anti