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CORSICA.
THE LAND OFTHE VEND ETT4-THE
BIRTHPLACE or NAPOLEON.
The Gulf and City of Ajacco -Corsicam
Men and Women.
Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier)
Ajacco, Corsica, Feb. 27.

Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier)
Ajacco Corsica, Feb. 81.
There is a homely saying to the effect
that men and women are like sheep in
the habit of following blindly the lead
OF a bell-wether and it's truth is exem-
pltied every winter by crowds Of semi
invalds and seekers after eternal sun
shine, who flock to Algiers and the Rlv-
iera, passing unnoticed this beautiful
island, which has a far more agreeable
climate than either. A well-known
globe-trotter recently wrote: 81 know
of no such combination of sea and
mountains, of the sylvan beauty of the
north and the richness of southern for
ests; no region where within so small a
space nature takes so many different
sublime and exquisite aspects as she
does in Corsica. Palms, cactus and
orange-groves, vineyards, corn and CO.
coanuts, the noblest pine woods In Eu-
rope; granite peaks, SHOWS and frozen
lakes; all these brought into the COM
pass of days journey. Nor are they
ranged in regular succession. Here the
granite pIunges in masses into the sea;
there chestnut forests sweep up the
crags of the central range to the height
of six thousand feet, The atmosphere
aids the scenery. The sun suffused
sides have a lucidity worthy of Athens
herself, and the colors of land and sea
brlliancy which makes Italy look pale
by comparison"
Approaching Corsica from the west
ward, across the tranquil Mediterra-
nean,-you see from the vessels deck
only a chaos as mountains, with steep
rugged sides, rising to great elevations
their saw-tooth pinnacles towering
black as ink against sky of cloudless
blue Observed more closely through
a field-glass, the mountain labyrinth re-
solves itself into three distinct chains,
crossing each other diagonally and
sending out spurs and foothills in eve
ry direction. From other angles OF vi
sion, the ranges seem to radiate from a
central point, like spolles in a colohsal
wheel, the hub" of which is group of
stupendous peaks, ten thousand feet
high, surrounded by dark forests and
falling waters. This highest and al
most inaccessible part of the island Is a
region as sublime in it's soitudes and
as majestic in character as Alpine
Switzerland and indeed it is a frag-
ment of the Alps, severed only by
hundred and fifty miles from their near
est SHOWS. Spurs and foothills, trend
ing down on all sides to the Mediterra-
mean either terminate abruptly in bold
promontores at the coast, or run far
into the waves, leaving sheltered bays
between.
Such is the Gulf of Ajacco (pro-
nounced as if spelled A-jat-cho), a
broad expanse of water between two
lines of picturesque cliffs, gradually
lowering and curving' inward as they
advance into the sea, till met by the
Isles Sanguinaries-' Sansuinaly Is /
lands" 1t is a magnificent harbor, |
deep and sheltered, in which the naves
of the world might ride in safely-but ,
the looking spot eyes ever |
behild You speculate upon what grim |
was accomplished here in days |
gone by, to have given those pretty is |
lets ther bloody name, No villages or |
hamlets are visible-only here and there |
q solitary tower or lighthouse, pointin |
a warning finger, while froWning |
heights fling long black shadows over
the seward plains. Apparently desert
ed by man and beast, you wonder why |
the great Corsican was banished to st. |
when, if solitary confinement |
was the object, he might as well have !