Excerpt from Corsica in Its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The Record of a Tour in the Summer of 1852 IT was in the summer of last year that I went over to the island of Corsica. Its unknown solitudes, and the legendary fame of its scenery and its people, urged me to _make the trip. Yet I had no intention of entan glin g myself so deep in its path less labyrinths as I have actually done. It fared with me as with the people in the story-book, who are decoyed by some strange wondrous bird into the mysterious forest, and then drawn deeper and deeper into the beautiful wilds. At the end of my tour I had pretty well traversed the island. The fruit of this summer's experiences is the present work, which I send home to my friends. May it not lack a sympathetic reception! This at least it hopes to deserve for the sake of the history and the popa lar poetry of the Corsicans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.