Excerpt from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 25: July, 1862 Surely there is nothing like this in the whole world, I thought, as I gazed for the first time upon this charming scene. The strange old fashioned buildings; the castle, the palace on the hill-top, the shipping at the wharves, the gar den's on every slope, the varied outlines of the neighboring cliffs and hills, covered with groves and green slopes of rich sward; every nook glimmering with beautiful villas; the whole re flected in the glowing waters that sweep through the' maze of islands and headlands in every di rection; can there be any thing more beautiful in all the world? 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.