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Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads
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Ponte alla Leccia to Piedicroce by “Courrier” daily
Piedicroce to Prunete-Railway Station, the finest part of the road being between Piedicroce and Castagneto. Coach from Castagneto to Prunete by Cervione. From Castagneto or Alesani to Prunete see Prunete to Alesani, on p. 33
Solenzara, on the S.E. coast, to Sartène, 46 m. S.W., by a forest road with much fine scenery
History, Habits, Agriculture and Houses of Refuge, called "Maison" in the index
Index
LIST OF MAPS.
Some maps have been moved from their original location as printed in the List. Maps shown in the text are thumbnails linked to larger versions. Blue lines and numbers were extremely faded and have been redrawn. Note that some maps include segments of railroad which had been planned but not completed at the time of the guidebook's publication in 1888.
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Sketch Map of the Riviera and Corsica, showing the relative position of their principal towns; as also the ports connected with each other by steamboat |
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Plan of Ajaccio.—The town is built on rising ground |
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The Western Central Region.—This is the least known and the most difficult portion of the island to traverse. Yet easy and picturesque short excursions may be made from Porto, Evisa and Galeria, into the forests of evergreen oaks, etc |
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Central Corsica, or the most troublesome part of the grand highway, which traverses Corsica from south to north, from Sartène to Ponte alla Leccia, whence it ramifies eastward to Bastia and westward to Calvi and Ile Rousse. It joins the railway and the road between Ajaccio and Corté near Vivario |
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CORSICA
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Corsica |
Is situated 54 miles W. from Leghorn, 98 m. S. from Genoa, and 106 m. S.E. from Nice. It is 116 m. long, 52 m. broad, and contains an area of 3376 square miles; divided into 5 arrondissements, subdivided into 62 cantons, and these again into 363 communes, with a population of 275,000. The surface, of which little more than a tenth is under cultivation, is composed of lofty and rugged granite mountain chains, diverging in all directions from the culminating peaks of Mounts Cinto, 8892 ft.; Rotondo, 8613 ft.; Pagliorba, 8278 ft.; Padro, 7846 ft.; and Oro, 8829 ft. On the western and southern sides of the island these ranges terminate abruptly on the shore, or run out into the sea; while, on the eastern side, a great undulating plain intervenes between their termination and the coast, in summer troubled with malaria, but in a less degree than formerly.
Corsica is the central region of the great plant system of the Mediterranean. Among the many fine forests which cover the mountains, the most important are those of Valdoniello, Filosorma, Vizzavona Verde, Zonza, Bavella, Ometa and Calenzana. They contain noble specimens of pines, oaks, beech, chestnut,